Posts Tagged: music
Baroque.me: J.S. Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 – Prelude
Baroque.me (2011) by Alexander Chen. Video capture. baroque.me visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites. Using the math behind string length and pitch, it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music’s underlying structure and subtle shifts.
Grab and interact: baroque.me
More details at: blog.chenalexander.com/2011/baroque-bach-cello/
Built in: HTML5 Canvas, Javascript, SoundManager
Made while a resident at Eyebeam (eyebeam.org)
Baroque.me: J.S. Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 – Prelude from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.
Virtual Choir
Virtual Choir on TED
Not really Art History but still cool use of the medium.
I particularly like the quote “All my life I had seen in black and white and… now shocking technicolour. The single most transformative moment in my life.”
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For those unfamiliar with Mozart TURN UP the volume and press play:
While I have heard an amazing version of the Kyrie in la Madeleine in Paris
few years ago, for me this moment of revelation was Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in d minor.
Again TURN UP the volume and BASS, imagine yourself 18 years old, alone in France, and standing in the middle of the labyrinth in Chartre Cathedral when suddenly:
Press play:
The day before the world had exploded into Technicolour as I stood in front of my first Van Gogh.
It is also called an epiphany
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