Grapholine
Audiovisual instrument
Grapholine is an audiovisual instrument that transforms drawing gestures into sounds.
The artistic intention of this instrument is to use the expressiveness of drawing gestures for music purposes: the drawer becomes a musician and the audience is plunged into the heart of a creation that is both sound and visual.
This raises many questions regarding the ambiguity of intention: when performing a gesture on Grapholine, is the gesture driven by a visual or musical intention or both?
How can visual intentions be transposed into musical intentions? How can sound aesthetics meet visual aesthetics?
How can the introduction of a musically-based temporality influence and modify a drawing practice that is usually not dependent on duration?
Grapholine was first been designed for the composition and the real-time playing of the electroacoustic work Demus.
Applications
- Electroacoustic musical piece Demus
- Educational project
- Workshop
- Interactive and musical visitor’s book
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