Polychrome Music

Rafaël Rozendaal & Danny Wolfers (Legowelt)

400 unique artworks

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👉 Legowelt: For Polychrome Music I designed a generative music system that plays an infinite composition on 3 different audio channels, each with their own synthesizer. These randomly generate simple musical timbres inspired by early computer sound chips. 🌴 The music itself is generated by randomly selecting 3 patterns out of a pool of 180. These patterns, which are little 8-bar music pieces, were written in the same C# Dorian scale so they always fit together. This is a pleasant sounding minor and colorful scale that I believe fits the general vibe of Rafaël’s work. 🌲 Composition wise, channel 1 plays the bassline and channels 2 and 3 the melody, countermelody, arpeggios and harmonies. 🌳 The system changes the patterns each time they are played, reversing, speeding up or slowing down the pattern or changing the synthesizer channel they are played on. In essence the system infinitely randomly remixes the source melodies to create ever new surprising pieces that harmonize with the colorful compositions. 👈

RELEASE DATE

24 Aug 2022

LIBRARY

tone@14.8.15

CREATIVE CREDITS

Code by Reinier Feijen

RELEASE DETAILS

400 works released with Exponential Dutch auction on 24 Aug 2022

CHARITABLE GIVING

25% of proceeds above resting price will be donated to Rhizome, an organization supporting the preservation and creation of digital art.

PROJECT ID

0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270-336

CONTRACT

Etherscan

336000067

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rafaël Rozendaal

b. 1980 Amsterdam, Netherlands Lives and works in New York, NY_

Rafaël Rozendaal is a visual artist who uses the internet as a canvas. He also creates installations, tapestries, lenticulars, books, and lectures. He has exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stedelijk Museum, Valencia Biennial, Casa Franca Brasil Rio, Seoul Art Square, and in Times Square, New York....

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Rafaël Rozendaal

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Danny Wolfers (Legowelt)

Lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands

Danny Wolfers (Legowelt) is a musician and visual artist from The Hague, Netherlands. He makes records in many different musical styles, and also paints and makes animation films. As a digital artist, he published Shadow Wolf Cyberzine, which is made entirely in ASCII art and contains various articles and interviews about a range of subjects....

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Danny Wolfers (Legowelt)