About the Piece
Art Through the Ages is an electronic music piece for six musicians and a conductor. Performers are all assigned a number 1-6 which corresponds to one of six square segments of a famous piece of visual art. Each performer’s cellular device displays an empty canvas below which are a series of sliders affecting RGB color balance, line width, and line opacity. Performers use these sliders and the canvas to recreate one-sixth of each painting. On the conductor's cellular device, all six drawings display together revealing a full recreation of the original painting. The piece has ten movements which each represent a different period of art history. In each of these movements, a different audio file is uploaded to a granular synth delay patch. These audio files contain pieces of music from the same era as their respective paintings. Artistic choices the players make in their recreation of the visual pieces affect different musical parameters in the granular synth.
Performer Application
The applications were created in Daniel Iglesia's MobMuPlat. When the performer opens the application they are met with an instruction page and a drawing page. The drawing page contains tools to change color, opacity and line width.
This is the Pure Data patch that the MobMuPlat application references.
Conductor Application
The conductor application was also created in MobMuPlat. The conductor patch receives drawing data over a local network from the performers and displays the data in the corresponding panel.
The Pure Data patch that the conductor application references.
