Looking Outwards 04: Sound Art

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FORMS – String Quartet
2021

The project “FORMS – String Quartet” uses an algorithm (a “realtime visual score generator” called  “The Streaming Bot”) to generate great visual representations of various forms including lines and shapes as graphic scores, which are then converted into actual sounds and music.

“FORMS – String Quartet”, which is a performance in its eventual form, is derived from the works of “Screen ensembles”. In “Screen ensembles”, graphics that work as scores were created by the algorithm and were later converted into different sounds. Each screen represents a different role like “Rhythm”, “Harmony”, or “Texture”.

One thing that I appreciate and admire a lot about this project is that it liberated the music scores from the traditional, rigid, black and white styles and transformed them into more flexible, diverse, and artistically-attractive visual forms. Also, they try to generate music from random graphics and shapes, which I think is an innovative attempt.