Fleshtones
2006
In which pornography is turned into piano music. The 19th century quest for synaesthetic colour music forms the conceptual starting point for Fleshtones, a piece for pixelated pornography and auto generated accompaniment. Footage from webcams and other online sites is broken down into a simple tableau of colour bands. Given the subject matter this palette is either predominately pink or coffee coloured thus producing a sequence of flickering fleshtones. Using the wonders of max/msp/jitter these shifting Fleshtones are turned into lyrical piano music. A music that rises in falls in response and exact correspondence to the onscreen movement.
Made especially for Youtube: 30,000 views so far. Screened at:Cog Collective, London (2006), Punto Y Raya festival (2007), CCA, Santa Fe (2008), Memorial Art Gallery Hasting (2009).