Lexikon-Sonate Improv

David Borgo, sopranino saxophone, improvising with algorithmic music software by Karheinz Essl (the piano part) set to computer animation created using Artmatic and Vtrack (U&I Software). Part of a 12-video DVD project titled Chance, Discovery and Design. For more info see davidborgo.com and essl.at

Category:

Music

Tags:

• electroacoustic
• animation
• graphics
• jazz
• improvisation
• artmatic
• Vtrack
• piano
• free
• saxophone
• sax
• sopranino
• algorithmic

[dborgo]

Glad you enjoyed it! The piano part is generated by the computer though there is a fair amount of meta-control by a human (me). You can start and stop and control the various weightings of about 15 different algorithms that produce the music. I controlled/recorded the piano part, took a break for lunch, and returned and recorded the sopranino part as an improvised overdub in one take.

Thanks again for listening!

--David

[paulorcbarros]

Nice work. Congratulations.

Greetings from Brazil.

[khz96]

Cool, David! Now YouTube enables me to watch your video!

I really enjoyed it. Greetings from Vienna, Karlheinz Essl.

[PSearPianist]

I enjoyed this, although I think the balance favours the sax too much (as opposed to the piano). I should be interested to know if the piano part was generated by computer and played from a score by a human, or entirely computer-generated.