On a recent visit to the brilliant Pick Me Up exhibition of contemporary graphic art at Somerset House, Stephanie Prosavec's work really stood out as an important reference point for this project. In creating a visual system to represent music data my project shares a similar premise to some of her visual systems work, particularly that of the Literary Organism, a chapter of Jack Kerouac's On the Road broken down and translated into a sprawling structure that resembles a conglomerate of beautiful linear florae.
Where my project differs is that, while Prosavec has created some great one-off pieces using her systems, I hope to create a system that can allow for comparison and observation of patterns that may help users get an intuitive idea of what the music may be like. Therefore, to help make the system able to fulfil this function effectively, I will need to be slightly selective with the data; too much information will make each symbol hard to compare to one another, too little and the ability to express difference will be lessened.
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