21st Century Music Practice

Comments on “The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self”

Reviewer One

Although there was quite an extensive amount of technical explanation before we got to the music, it was interesting to watch the piece emerge through the time-lapse process. While you describe the use of the Stravinsky quote as a restriction it is also evident from the video that this limited data set provides an affordance for sonification – a process where the connection between the data and the sound is usually opaque – that allows the listener / viewer to follow the connectivity. Indeed, it affords a way into the notion of musical listening as problem solving, of identifying patterns, that brings that kind of aesthetic reaction to the fore in a very dramatic and stark way – and in another way, the visual cues and their dramatic musical responses constrains the listener’s response within that problem solving mode.

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