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Johan Joseph Fux - Austria 1660-1741
Since 1989, public art has helped me progress. The computer hidden in the base plays the scores I compose on my lighting treatment. Around 2007, the first microcontrollers arrived; tiny and inexpensive, they were also capable of reading music. It was unexpected. Exhibition pieces can play compositions; just like my monumental urban works.
I enjoyed building my Luchrones, and now my second passion is composing music.
In 2014, my lighting treatment became a real tool. To name it, I’m thinking about the three-letter combination that will be the future extension for the sheet music files I compose. I often listen to J.S. Bach on the computer where I code, but I find “file.jsb” a bit excessive.
In addition to writing music and being a contemporary of Bach, Fux is famous for his treatise on composition (1725).
Fux’s treatise “Gradus Ad Parnassum” is constantly being reissued in all languages
I’m discovering the rules of polyphony, a combination of several musical parts played together. The canon repeats a rhythm identically, shifted in time; counterpoint superimposes and organizes distinct melodic lines to form a polyphony; fugue states an entire musical phrase before the next one begins… A good reason why, under its inspiration, my compositions have since had the extension “.fux.”
This treatise has inspired many composers, including Claude Debussy. My software benefits above all from the hours spent on my grandmother’s upright piano. The words “ELCKÉ Paris” have been etched in my memory ever since.
the keyboard of my grandmother’s unforgettable piano
Of course, I have my computer keyboard; but in my mind, the good old Elcké keyboard still holds the top spot. 
Letter to Elise - first bars
White light is not like music; I don’t have a range—of colors in this case—to explore. I only have one color, but it’s no simpler.
Each LED has a light height, and, as with musical notation, it’s the “beat” that will occupy the most space in the score, with 23 variables to describe the quality of light, the rhythm, and the sequences.
Screenshot of Fux version 35, created in Python
Because the LEDs we see shining everywhere are never lit like our parents’ lamps. LEDs receive small amounts of energy for a very short period of time. The current is chopped into such a high frequency that to our human eyes, the LED appears steady. We can see this when it rains: illuminated by LEDs, raindrops give the surprising impression of falling in dotted lines.
For better brightness, the LED current is “chopped” into more or less thin slices
This feature is precious to me. I can vary the brightness of my Luchrones using my program alone. The light from the LEDs becomes similar to sound. I create a variation in intensity and vibrations of light, just as one varies the pitch of a sound.
video of the first bars of the Coquille de Reims in 2023 Envoyer des commentaires Résultats de traduction disponibles