The Reverse Color Organ
with painter Ellen Hackl Fagan
2011 & 2009
The experience a human has of a color (qualia?) may be
described as a certain feeling.
That feeling is influenced by the greater context (whole painting).
The computer looks at properties (red-ness, edges, brightness)
to come up with a comparable context
(a musical scale with modal deviations).
The properties of the whole painting on average determine
the (modal) scale.
The difference in each property between the context (painting)
and the selected detail (via camera view of the real painting
or cursor on screen) determines the scale degree (steps from the
key note) within the musical context (scale).
* Dig the art
(the interactive online version)
* about the performance version
(with Flash video)
* .mp4 and .mov video recordings
of the running installation for you to see and hear
* the algorithm
* technical explanation
(with mp3 audio clips and mp4 video)
* concept
(an essay)
* version options
* INSTALLATION
installation versions featured at Synthetic Zero, POOL, HOAST and
ArtHarlem in New York
* PERFORMANCE
 
flute - Rosemary Birardi,
krummhorn (early bassoon) - Robert Lepre,
violin - Jim Altieri, classical guitar - Matt Marble,
cello - Jessie Marino, basses (bowed and electric) -
Tod Hendrick and Wilbo Wright and
piano - Margaret Mills
performance version featured at the New Art Center in New York
* LECTURES/PUBLICATION
 
presentation for LISA (Leaders on Software Art) and
ICMC (the International Computer Music Conference)
paper on Sensory Substitution and published in Hz academic
music journal
* THE PLANETARIUM
also featured at Sguardi Sonori at the Planetario in Rome, Italy
(Ennio Morricone was the conductor for the event,
though this particular piece defies being conducted) |
