Re: [microsound] [ot] RGB freq?

[Kurt Ralske <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One approach that might be fruitful would be to simply map the colorspace
> into pitch-space according to some arbitrary but interesting way -- or
> even a dynamic one, responsive to the properties of the image unfolding in
> time...

tangential to this topic, but...just thinking about the choices made in
mapping data: i believe art is at it highest when the will-to-power is
removed from it. a purely scientific approach to art, such a direct mapping
of visual-to-audio, can be a bit heroic, promethean, subtly grandiose.

this promethean attitude is useful for science, but maybe damaging for art.
if the goal is exploring the relation of the visual + the audible, a direct
one-to-one mapping could actually be the least interesting result.  a more
personal, individualistic exploration of the many ways that sound + vision
can interact would expand artistic possibilities, instead of reducing them.

the tendency to think that the most scientifically accurate mapping is also
the best artistically is similar to another, more familiar artistic
prejudice: that the "best" rendering of a bowl of fruit is a photo-realistic
one, and that a (say) cubist rendering is "less good" because its less
scientifically accurate.

Kurt

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