“Light Motif” by Bonpapa
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Title:
- Light Motif
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Length:
- 4:14
Director(s):
Description:
“Light Motif is conceived as a synaesthetic experience based on a visual transposition of Music for 18 Musicians – Section II, by American composer Steve Reich. The ambition of the film is to cinematically capture the extraordinary life force that animates this essential work of contemporary music, by offering a true hypnotic experience where music can be “”seen””.
Architected rigorously, Steve Reich’s compositions are based on the repetition of short melodic patterns subjected to the gradual processes of dephasing, lengthening pattern, rhythmic saturation and tonal changes. The result of these subtle variations in the repetitions is a sound texture in constant transformation. The listener passes progressively from a polyphonic perception to a global perception, from perception of a discontinuous sound phenomenon to a continuous one. In Light Motif it is this perceptual phenomenon that is transcribed into images.
Procedural generation techniques are used to transpose the motifs and compositional processes into a semi-abstract visual form made of colored lights and geometric shapes.
Light Motif explores the possibilities of synergy between music and image through a subjective experience that can speak directly to the subconscious of the viewer.”
