Quadrangle
2005
Quasi random boogaloo. Quadrangle is a further investigation of the possibilities for generating vision from sound. In this case the starting point is a series of random musical sequences produced in max/msp using Karlheinz Essl Real Time Composition Library. These midi sequences are fed to a synthesizer to produce the soundtrack. Simultaneously the very same midi signals are used to control the shape of a white square. Thus as the pitch rises and falls so the square is, expanded, contracted, duplicated and indeed tinted and coloured. The result is a self consciously modernist series of performative movements and steps. The piece can free run as an installation and the video above is an edited section from some twenty minutes of such 'live' footage.
Screened at: Island Art Film & Video Festival (2005), PROG:ME New Media Festival Brazil (2005), Lumen (2006), Visual Music Marathon, Boston, USA (2007).