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Visu@lMusiC

dvd video Circus 8

audio CD recording

exhibition MeetingOpenspace

Sergio Maltagliati

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autom@ted VisualMusiC 4.0

autom@tedVisualMusiC - HomeArt

generative Visual-Music software

> Goldberg Variations music: J.S.Bach and computer music transcription by Pietro Grossi (Soft TAUMUS synthesizer TAU2, IBM 370/168) Institutes of CNR CNUCE and IEI - Pisa, Italy 1980

> Sound Life 3 computer music by Pietro Grossi

> netSurfing 3.0

> Color Sequencer 1.0

> Circus 4 > Circus 5_8-02 HomeArt Qbasic graphics software by Pietro Grossi - Music software *autom@tedMusic

*autom@ted_VisualMusiC_ 4.0 planned and realized by Sergio Maltagliati. The images, composed in relation to precise sound/sign/colour correspondeces, follow the changes of the music and it is proposed through "autom@tedVisualMusic" software. This program can be configured to create random multiple visual-music variations, starting from a simple sonorous/visual cell. It generates a new and original audio-visual composition each time play is clicked.

Software autom@tedVisualMusiC from experiences of the visual programs realized from Grossi in the years '80, written in the language BBC Basic with computer Acorn Archimedes A310. In the middle of the Eighties, he has started a series of researches concerning computer graphics. The HomeArt term coined by himself.

ALFABETI 1998 original screenshot by Grossi

Pietro Grossi was a cellist and composer, born in Venice in 1917. He founded the S 2F M (Studio de Fonologia Musicale di Firenze) in 1963 in order to experiment with electronic sound and composition, basing his work on explorations of very reduced material until his death in 2002.
Pietro Grossi is acknowledged as a major figure in the development of Italian electronic music. He taught at the Florence Conservatory of Music for much of his career, experimenting with instrumental and electroacoustic music, and during the 1960s was involved in the establishment of several bodies for the advancement of new modes of composition.

HomeArt by Pietro Grossi

Minimalist before the Minimalists, pioneer of Computer Music, visual artist and hacker ahead of the time. This was Pietro Grossi, a larger-than-life Italian and composer who questioned the concept of musical authorship the idea of personal artistic expression: "A piece is not only a 'work' (of art), but also one of the many 'works' one can freely transform: everything is temporary, everything can change at any time. "Ideas are not personal anymore, they are opened to every solution, everybody could use them". This experience of electronic art comes from Grossi’s desire to express himself in the field of graphics too, following the same principles used for his computer music creations. This kind of art allows the artist to work at home, thanks to a personal computer, and his house becomes like a gallery at home.
The HomeArt (term coined by himself) project is particularly relevant: it consists of completely automated visual processes, based on simple computer programs, where he gives space to randomness in the context of a single compositive idea, developed into many different graphic variations, and it was presented for the first time at the Venice Biennial Exhibition, “New Atlantis: The Continent of Electronic Music in 1986.

MANIFESTO OF HOMEART

HomeArt, by way of the personal computer, raises the artistic aspirations and potential latent in each one of us to the highest level of autonomous decision making conceivable today.

The home,one's own space, privacy, can be shaped and reshaped according to the dictates of one's own fantasy with the help of "artificial fantasy". The "friendly" use of a personal computer is stimulus enough for action and moreover, it will be the working way of the future.

"THE COMPUTER FREES US OF OUR NEIGHBOR'S GENIUS AND DEVELOPS OUR OWN" The slogan is beginning to show interesting results.

Short description of an experience :

I sit at my personal computer and I inizialize it.
I transfer a program on diskette to its memory and I run it.
I use the processor (sign,color,sound) for aesthetic purposes and when I decide the time is right.
I interrupt the process.
I end the experiment or I make changes suggested to me by the results or that merely came to mind.

I work by myself and for myself :

I accept the instrument at my disposal,I analyze what it will let me do, and within those limits, I work.

The unequalled reliability,dexterity,speed and fantasy of even the simplest computers cancel century old problems and inspire me to explore further and further this new terrain. The immediate answer encourages the study of new solutions.

As a matter of personal inclination ,I mostly design programs with unlimited processing,and, whitin my own limits and with what the machine allows me, with coefficients of variability sufficient to keep my interest high or,in any case, not let it wane.

The satisfaction as far as personal interest are concerned comes in the essence of the operation I am describing. It is a sort of artistic privacy that does not wait for or require, but instead ignores,the reaction of others. The only meaningful reaction is my own;it is the only that determines down which path my personal fantasy will venture. .

This is, or could be,HOMEART: mental relaxation but, paradoxically, a commitment to the creation of one's own place of rest/work/ study with sound, sign, color. HOMEART is my latest experiment in the nascent universe of "intelligent" systems.Like previous experiments,it is a way of becoming acqainted with and seeing the life of "artificial fantasy" from within as well as according the logic and law "others".HOMEART is a path among the many which art will follow and may well become a part of the self operating home or environment of the future.

Pietro Grossi (1986)