DESCRIPTION:
The music and animation were created in Max/MSP/Jitter. An algorithm generates permutations of 16 numbers based on group-theoretic operations. The numbers trigger 16 'instruments' resulting in different sound-events. The instruments are partitioned into 4 'ensembles' of 4 instruments each. The order in which the sound-events unfold in each ensemble are isomorphic with each other. The video screen is interpreted as a 16 x 4 matrix representing the music's underlying polyphonic organization. The animation is the mapping of sound-event activations to positions on the screen. Colors were chosen intuitively.