Re: [LAU] audio/visual synthesis

Florian Schmidt wrote: Hi Florian, This understanding is central to my own concept of the A/V arts. In my opinion there are no absolute correspondences, i.e. I believe that all associations and correspondences between audio and visual elements are finally arbitrary. However, I'm quick to add that doesn't make such associations useless. On the contrary, they are useful in so far as they get the creative mind moving in some direction. AFAIC, that's all the push I need. An analogous situation is found in the time-point system used by Charles Wuorinen. His explication of the system is intriguing, but there's no getting around the fact that his initial premise is arbitrary. Very useful, but not a "natural" or necessary relationship between elements. Its necessity is with regards to the composer's need for a systematic and complementary approach to resolving rhythmic problems in a non-tonal harmonic world. And that's enough to get a start into a work, afterwards you can jettison any system (or not) once you've got the work's direction clarified. Just my two yuan, of course. :) And thanks for that graphics server, that's a cool idea, I look forward to testing it. Best, dp