Tractatus Proposition 2

Part of multimedia project with computer artist Simon Poulter. Aim: to explore Wittgenstein's 7 basic propositions in sound and images. The music is improvised using the 7 basic diatonic scales (piano white notes only) or old 'church' modes, 7 prime numbers for rhythm (1/4, 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, 11/4, 13/4, 17/4 and their compounds) and 7 instrumental families (strings, woodwind, brass, keyboards, percussion, voice, noise) placed in a three-dimentional grid. The participant (live or on-line) manoeuvers randomly or not through the grid, and alters the music and images according to these choices, thus illustrating the arbitrariness of Wittgenstein's propositions, based on words that lose their definition, meaning, and use, when translated into any other language. The start of anarchy?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Wittgenstein
• drone
• modal
• music
• Jean-Pierre
• Rasle
• improvisation
• bagpipes
• Simon
• Poulter

[memoryburn7]

very interesting, keep going.