“Thoughts on Hesse, Digital A and Visual Music” by Wands
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- Thoughts on Hesse, Digital A and Visual Music
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Abstract:
This essay describes the influence of Hermann Hesse’s ideas on my creative work and how I create interactive music sculptures and visual music. In his book, Magister Ludi, Hesse describes a game in which art and music blend together in a way that allows for transformation of creative content into various forms of media. “Variations” is an ongoing exploration of interactive sculpture and visual music that began in 1999 and still continues. The following describes my thought process for early versions of this work, as well as for “Variations 03,” an interactive music installation that was exhibited as part of the SIGGRAPH 2003 A Gallery. My approach in creating this work was to develop a three-dimensional sound matrix that viewers could change as they interacted with the sculpture.
References:
Hesse, H. (1986). Magister Ludi (the Glass Bead Game), trans. Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Bantam, 68, 178.
Wands, B. (1999). Digital Salon Chair’s statement. Leonardo, 32(5), 349-351.
