"No.2 69"
A collaboration with trikband for a project by Maria Norefors. Maria tore apart and re-assembled sheet music. The sheet music was to be interpreted by different musicians.
Apparently, the provided sheet of music is distorted almost beyond recognition. This piece, nonetheless, treats the given material as if it offered a coherent set of musical instructions ready for performance.
A number of robot bugs criss-cross the sheet of music guided by inbuilt photo and collision sensors. The former also serve the purpose of sensing the symbols printed on the paper surface. Photo sensor data is afterwards transformed into audible sound by the bugs.
At the same time, the fragments of lyrics in the lower part of the sheet are interpreted as the musical raw material, while the clutter of stave, notes and other symbols is regarded as the instructions on how to perform the raw material. Reading the sheet of music in the manner applied in this piece not only determines what to “play” at a given position but also how to move over the sheet vertically and horizontally afterwards. The red line indicates the path trodden during the example performance you can hear in the exhibition.
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A collaboration with trikband for a project by Maria Norefors. Maria tore apart and re-assembled sheet music. The sheet music was to be interpreted by different musicians.
Apparently, the provided sheet of music is distorted almost beyond recognition. This piece, nonetheless, treats the given material as if it offered a coherent set of musical instructions ready for performance.
A number of robot bugs criss-cross the sheet of music guided by inbuilt photo and collision sensors. The former also serve the purpose of sensing the symbols printed on the paper surface. Photo sensor data is afterwards transformed into audible sound by the bugs.
At the same time, the fragments of lyrics in the lower part of the sheet are interpreted as the musical raw material, while the clutter of stave, notes and other symbols is regarded as the instructions on how to perform the raw material. Reading the sheet of music in the manner applied in this piece not only determines what to “play” at a given position but also how to move over the sheet vertically and horizontally afterwards. The red line indicates the path trodden during the example performance you can hear in the exhibition.
Download here
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