algorithmic animated graphic score
Concept: Sébastien Roux
Graphic Design: Vincent Menu
Programming: Jérôme Tuncer
12 Segments (+ Réponses) is a graphic score for 2 to 20 performers. The choice of the instrumentation is free, although most of the performers should be able to play glissando.
The score is read from left to right using a white cursor. The screen is split into 2 parts. On the left side, one groupe of performers plays semantic images. On the right side, another group plays synchronous images. The semantic images are sonic descriptors. They suggest a musical idea such as : stationnary, floating, inexorable trajectory… The synchronous images are of 2 kinds : diagonals mean glissandos, vertical mean short sound.
The score is generated in real time using a Max/Msp/Jitter patch. Duration is free. One performer controls tempo, nature of semantic images, type, color, density of synchronous images.
Watch the Dedalus Ensemble version, recorded on October 4th, 2018 at the Riverrun Festival (Albi):