Choose your own composition
11 Apr
Georgia Tech professor Jason Freeman has teamed up with designer Patricia Reed and violinist Maja Cerar to create a choose your own adventure approach to music composition. The program, Graph Theory, allows you, as the composer to choose between 61 different fragments of a violin solo and choose the order they are played in as well as the length of time each fragment is repeated. When you have finished your composition, it is archived and later played at performances. This is definitely one of those things that takes a few times to completely master the game. But, once you do you’ll get to leave feeling like a musical prodigy.
Graph Theory will be on display at the Spruill Gallery for the exhibition, Breaking New Ground. The exhibition runs from May 8 to June 26. The exhibition will also feature Kathryn Refi, Danielle Roney, Dick Robinson, Philip Galanter, Carla Diana, and Gil Weinberg. During the exhibition, the violinist will be coming to play back some of what is composed.
Tags: choose your own adventure, georgia tech, graph theory, jason freeman, spruill gallery
how has MTG not commented this yet?
oh, that’s right – he prowls the internets incognito.
man, that dude is like beyond a bag of frames or somethin..
Hey there! Came across this through a Google alert. Nice to find more blog coverage of Atlanta… and how about that, coverage of a local composer.
Cool…
Jason’s a great thinker and composer. He challenges the traditional relationships between composer/performer/audience to make them all interact more with each other. I love what he does. This piece is intriguing. I saw it a sonic generator concert a while back. It’s worth checking out.
btw, the link to his site should be http://www.jasonfreeman.net/
Also… to eavesdrop on what Jason and other composers in doing around town, please visit AtlantaComposers.com
Thanks for this post!
Sorry for the grammatical errors above. It’s a little early in the morning for me.
Thanks for the correction on that link! Jason’s work really is phenomenal. I actually found out about him, because he is going to be showing the piece at the gallery I work at (the one listed). I have logged at least 10 hours on his website in the few days just looking through everything. Great stuff.