What is the relationship or connection between
the aural and visual components of '77 Million Paintings'?
They really were developed alongside each other.
Just to explain how the audio works, it works in exactly
the same way actually as the paintings except it's not
software led; it is digital but it's not software.
The audio are basically layers of sound that overlap each other
at different speeds that are also on random setting,
so what you're listening to you won't hear exactly
the same thing twice; it's not a notated bit of music.
It's a spatial piece of music as well so each layer
is different, it's doing a different thing, and each layer is
in a different part of the room so it feels like
it's surrounding you, it feels like an object.
So, in that way, that idea of making music, generative music,
was exactly the same thinking as making generative visuals.
So, the relationship is that they behave in the same way,
they're both abstract, they're not conveying a message,
they're creating an atmosphere within a space.
Music
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