Harmonic Environment

Which Is Without Being

Shifting View Aale Singen Remix (Aale Marie)

'fluid variations' is a meditative audiovisual environment. Indeterminate in is very nature, the structure of the piece is a terrain of possibilities, and as such has no beginning, end, or in the traditional sense progression. Its temporal arrangement is rather referential to the perception of time as a stream of continual moments, each moment containing the ability of transient contraction and expansion. 

Fluid Variations

fluid variations

‘Bordun Chorus’ is a non-durational live-generative environment with no beginning, end, or in the traditional sense progression. It rather exists, for the time of its performance, in an ever-changing state of subtle transformation. The constantly renewing structure of the work thus defies repetition in favour of self-similarity, and strives towards the simplicity and impermanence inherent to natural organic environments. Within this approach resides the work’s transitory uniqueness of the moment.

Bordun Chorus

bordun chorus

ephemeral

‘INTIAC - h1n1’ is a generative composition, sonic interpretation and analysis of the genetic code or RNA of the H1N1 influenza virus. The 95 virus samples used for this 12-minute composition were collected during a medical study tracking the outbreak of H1N1 in Brazil in 2017. All compositional progression within the work is determined by the RNA sequences of the collected medical samples and the slight variations within this code.

The musical terrain of the composition is based purely on aesthetic values. Its sounds, notes and tonality are not representational of, or directly linked to virology. It is the performance of the work by the generative computer system that has a direct relationship to the RNA sequence of the virus. Much like the virus itself, the underlying structure of the composition could be seen as an interpretive mechanism of the genetic data of the virus.

The RNA sequence of a virus is essentially the hereditary encoded genetic information of the virus. The scientific samples used for this project are thus nothing but a set of analysed and ordered variations of organic code. As a set of natural code they outline or describe the spread and progression of H1N1 in Brazil in 2017. Once translated into computer code, this natural code can become encoded sonic information. It becomes the data that determines the musical progression and change within the composition.

‘INTIAC’ is thus an artificial organism that functions by analysing and decoding the collected and ordered genetic information of a natural organism.

Jockel Liess