Anthony Elliott

Chance Song Paintings (Manual Programs) Large & Small
Size: Large 1040 x 1040mm x2 Small 480 x 480mm x8

Concept: With the ingredients of light, sound and chance, I simulate an everyday isolated experience on a simplistic scale with the use of hearing and seeing association. The paintings and pieces of music are directed by a set of rules and a twenty-four sided dice. Each piece of music corresponds with a painting so the viewer can listen while looking at the painting. They are in control of themselves, I had no control of what they look or sound like.
In a Chance Song Painting there are systematically seven colours which run in this order:
Red, orange, yellow, green, Blue, indigo & violet, which respond to seven musical keys:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G repective to the colours listed above.
Starting from red A in the centre of the painting and at the beginning of the tape, the colour and key follows their chance instructions. Then continuing again with orange B thus slowly creates one flowing line of spectrum colour and musical keys, finishing at violet G.
1618 René Descartes made a colour music wheel where sound wave frequencies related to light frequencies, this was developed by many other scientists such as Roy De Maistre and Newton. These pieces of art use this concept with in the colour and musical key changes.
Description: A glass and a light diffuser paintings, chance computer music, walkmans and A4 sheets of data.