Simon Le Boggit

THE TRANSIENCE OF NOW

If the present distorts memory of the past, and the past provides context for the present... where lies Truth?

This algorithmically composed piece music for string quartet is accompanied by an algorithmically drawn animated video. The intention is to illustrate how form and structure may spontaneously emerge from chaos and repetition.

Each musical note is spontaneously generated in isolation - with its values of pitch, length and score-position being dictated by random number generators - and then repeated several times, with the resultant interlaced web of notes autonomously creating musical forms such as melody, harmony and syncopation.

Each note is accompanied by a straight line drawn at a random position and with random orientation on a screen. Each line then distorts the space in its immediate vicinity for as long as its corresponding note sounds. This very simple linkage between slowly chaotic sound and vision results in a mesmerising matrix of movement, as simplicity and complexity ebb and flow, distorting the past in ways which plasticise the foundations of an ever renewing present.
[United Kingdom - edition: 11]

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