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Forms is a real-time audiovisual synthesis exercise.

Driven by a set of rules for graphic generation based on randomness and probability, a custom software proposes a series of visual compositions created in realtime and never repeating.

These scores can be framed within the tradition of graphic musical notation that gained strength among twentieth-century composers and which allowed music to be released from tone, bars and the rigidity of classic staves.

Thanks to a real-time "sonification" engine written in MAX/MSP which reads (using the Syphon external) graphics created in realtime with Processing, images are transformed into sound using spectral synthesis algorithms. A header runs through the image from left to right, interpreting that small vertical fragment of the image. 

Forms is periodically evolving with new graphic and sonic algorithms, and is being permanently streamed at Playmodes’ Twitch channel, 24 hours a day during the pandemia lockdown.

Forms is a real-time audiovisual synthesis exercise.
Driven by a set of rules for graphic generation based on randomness and probability, a 

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Forms: Generative Visual Music

Cluster is an immersive audiovisual site-specific installation that explores relationships between space, time and perception. Geometric schematization of architecture using light instruments transforms the space into a container for the abstract language of light and sound.

Audiovisual discourse is generated in real time through a software application created specifically for the installation. This software, based on the modeling of transverse waves, generates a low frequency oscillator (LFO) for each LED. Also, the luminance of each LED is analyzed by the audio engine and transformed into a sound vibration: Cluster sound is a direct transposition of light into the audible spectrum. By altering the frequencies, amplitudes, quantization and the multiple relations existing between the thousands of oscillators, complex waves are generated that give shape to the different sequences of the audiovisual discourse.

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