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January 05, 2005

The Crossroad

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Music at Traffic Lights

The Crossroad -, a quadrophonic installation created by Tomas Dvorak alias Floex, generates music from the colours of cars which meet on the crossroad. As cars pass by they create impulses which carry the information equal to music like tone and interval, rhytm, structure.

Cameras shoot and sample colours of the cars on 4 places before traffic lights. Visual information is sent to computer which analyzes the data.

The work is based also on prerecorded samples and loops composed by a program operating on data from the crossroad, so the artist doesn't create the final form of the composition, but he also doesn't let the computer create all the data randomly.

One of the key concepts of this work is that some kind of everyday phenomenon could operate artistic process. From this point of the view this work could be taken as a search for the codes of art in the ordinary reality. (Posted by Régine Debatty)

Posted by Regine at January 5, 2005 02:18 AM

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