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Excerpt-T 

(2011) 

by Craig Allen re-imagines Cornelius Cardew's work Treatise through the prism of a machine dreaming. Built using MAX/MSP and VVVV.

Featured as part of the Engine Room 2011 festival and conference, celebrating the work of composer Cornelius Cardew.

 

In Excerpt-T Cornelius Cardew's work Treatise is re-imagined through the prism of a machine dreaming. Transient sections of Cardew's original work are ever present and form the template of the unfolding dream, the dream follows a discontinous narrative, moments shift in mesmerising yet unscrutable patterns, reflecting aspects of the original, but altered and opaque. A silicon reverie. The visual elements of the piece were inspired by the 60's work of graphic designer Kazumasa Nagai and by Cardew's own system of graphical scoring.

Video excerpt from High definition real time A/V installation. Built using MAX/MSP and VVVV.

 

Source: Allan Craig

 

 

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Notations 21 (2009) by Theresa Sauer features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. Notations 21 is a celebration of innovations in musical notation, employing an appreciative aesthetic for both the aural and visual beauty of these creations. The musical scores in this edition were created by composers whose creativity could not be confined by the staff and clef of traditional western notation, but whose musical language can communicate with the contemporary audience in a uniquely powerful way. (Notations 21 Project)

Notation. Calculation and Form in the Arts (2008) is a comprehensive catalogue (in German) edited by Dieter Appelt, Hubertus von Amelunxen and Peter Weibel which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and the ZKM | Karlsruhe. (ZKM)

Kandinsky (2009) edited by Tracey Bashkof is the first full-scale retrospective of the artist's career to be exhibited in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim culminated its trio of groundbreaking exhibitions of the artist's life and work in Munich, Russia, and Paris. This presentation of nearly 100 paintings brings together works from the three institutions that have the greatest concentration of Kandinsky's work in the world, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; as well as significant loans from private and public holdings. (Guggenheim)

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