Canvas

How can music be rep­re­sent­ed visu­al­ly? ​“Can­vas” is a project that exam­ines this ques­tion in a sys­tem­at­ic way through the use of graph­ic tools. A for­mal lan­guage is gen­er­at­ed by six songs, bro­ken down into a mul­ti­tude of notes that each have their own visu­al code. The results are then pre­sent­ed as audio-visu­al exper­i­ments through ani­ma­tions, which are then sequenced in a pub­li­ca­tion with the aim of rep-resent­ing the rhythm and melody in print and rein­ter­pret­ing the musi­cal score. The pieces come from six musi­cians: I analysed and reworked them with sev­er­al musi­cal soft­ware pro­grams in order to extract the max­i­mum num­ber of notes and sep­a­rate these into sev­er­al tracks, so that each note could be designed separately.