The highly innovative and excellent Playmodes team create innovative projects crossing art, technology, science, research and code. Their website playmodes documents all the various projects they create. They also have a channel on twitch.tv, where they present content live (great idea). The project focused on here is their recent project titled 'Forms - Screen Ensemble', which is a what they call a generative visual music instrument.
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| Playforms - Forms - Screen Ensemble, (Barcelona 2020) |
Forms - Screen Ensemble
"Forms -Screen Ensemble- is a generative visual music jukebox. Driven by chance and probability, this automata creates endless, unrepeatable graphic scores that are immediately transformed into sound by means of sonification algorithms. Images become sound spectrums, making it possible to -literally- hear what you see. The dream of Kandinski.
Each screen of this networked ensemble plays a particular instrumental role: Rhythm, Harmony or Texture.
Performed by this trio of automats, a visual music symphony evolves over time giving birth to unique sonic landscapes that will never be repeated again: from tonal ambient music to raging rhythms, surreal electronic passages or dance-floor beats.
Forms - Screen Ensemble was presented at 2020's edition of Ars Electronica festival in Barcelona, thanks to a grant given by NewArtFoundation, Institut Ramón Llull and Hangar.org."
Source: https://www.playmodes.com/home/forms-screen-ensemble/
About Playmodes
Playmodes is an audiovisual research studio. They work with custom, self-made technologies. Their mixture of creativity, software and hardware gives birth to immersive installations, projection mapping, lighting for buildings, digital scenography, audiovisual instruments and sound design.
Playmodes innovative approach, attention to detail and a craving for storytelling make them consider projects from all points of view, delivering intensely unique works that translate across cultures.
They love to experiment with new formats, working with Open Source tools and collaborating with people from around the world to deliver innovative projects, both in the artistic and commercial spectrum.
They are passionate about art, music, science, code and nature, and they share this passion by giving lectures and workshops in universities, schools or institutions.
Eduard Frigola / Software Development
Eduard Llorens / Project Manager
Eloi Maduell / CEO Visual Research
Santi Vilanova / CEO Sound Research
Christy Corda / Playmodes USA manager
VIMEO EMBED FORMS - SCREEN ENSEMBLE
Forms - Screen Ensemble from Playmodes Studio on Vimeo.
PLAYMODES TWITH.TV
Check out their live tv channel at: https://www.twitch.tv/playmodes
LINKS OF INTEREST
Forms - Screen Ensemble
https://www.playmodes.com/home/forms-screen-ensemble/
Playmodes Twitch TV
https://www.twitch.tv/playmodes
Playmodes Website
Hangar.org