TRANSCENDENCE 115 is a generative audiovisual work created in collaboration with the Portuguese experimental music project @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela). The piece was created for a composition from their album Three-Body Problem (Crónica, 2016).
The visual system utilizes algorithms to generate orbital patterns based on attraction and repulsion. The resulting video documents the accumulation of these events, creating a dense, textured flow that reacts directly to the audio composition.
The work was screened at the One Day Animation Festival in Vienna and the Cube Art Project in the United States.
TRANSCENDENCE 115 (2016), generative video. Excerpt from the 5’37” original work. Sound by @c.
Selected generative outputs.
The Composition
In TRANSCENDENCE 115, as in much of LIA’s work, the starting point is a system of forms and actions, an algorithm for visual composition. This system is set in motion, reacting to the music and to LIA’s interaction, and producing the piece. In TRANSCENDENCE 115, and in tune with the album’s title, we discover a multitude of orbital patterns, a composition built by attraction and repulsion from which an elaborate and densely textured flow emerges. In LIA’s typically constructive approach, the video results from the accumulation of events and the traces left by these, in an open choreography.
Text by Miguel Carvalhais
Project Details
Year Created: 2016
Medium: Generative Audiovisual Work / Single-Channel Video
Duration: 5’37”
Format: 1920 x 1080
Creative Collaboration
Sound: @c (Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela)
Harp: Angelica V. Salvi
Screenings
Cube Art Project, Lincoln, USA (‘Public Screening’, July 21 – August 31, 2017)
Filmcasino, Vienna, Austria (’12. One Day Animation Festival’, November 11, 2016)
