Variation II of Variation II

Kinetic Score/Audio-Visual Installation

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work in progress

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In this piece, I use Cage’s Variations II, which a compositional and notational model that John Cage developed over the period from 1958 to 1961, as an audio-visual generative method. In Variations II, Cage's original notation consisted of five points and six lines on eleven individual transparent plastic sheets. A composer/performer superimposed the transparent sheets and measured the distance between the dots and lines that represented parameter of musical events and sounds. In other words, the contingent relationship between the lines and dots determined the parameter of musical events and timbres. In my interpretation of Variations II , I apply the score to a kinetic installation. The lines and the dots are replaced by computer-controlled moving panels and visitors’ bodies, respectively. The algorithms analyze the relationship between these components and generate musical parameters in real time.​​​

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work in-progress