3 - fux
Johan Joseph Fux - Austria 1660-1741
Public art stimulates my creativity, because now a 6-meter Luchrone can read the same score as an indoor room. With the first micro-controllers I improve the successive versions of my light treatment. It becomes my Swiss army knife, my all-purpose tool.
I named the most accomplished version Fux. Johann Joseph Fux is almost a contemporary of Bach. In addition to writing music, Fux is famous for his treatise on composition.
Gradus Ad Parnassum is constantly being reissued in all languages
Another book I haven’t read. Instead of this work, my software benefits from the hours spent on my Grandmother’s upright piano. “ELCKÉ” PARIS is forever engraved in my mind.
the keyboard of my Grandmother’s unforgettable piano
I have a computer keyboard and a mouse; but in my head is engraved this damn piano keyboard. A memory of Grandmother’s lessons: my scores have two melodic lines. A “left hand” and a “right hand”. Beethoven’s famous Letter to Elise is a model of the genre… To drive parents crazy.
Letter to Elise - first measures
In white light, there is no chromatic scale to explore like in music. I only have one color and it is not easy. Each LED has a height of light. But it is the “time” that will occupy the most space in the score with more than 23 variables to describe the quality of light and the sequences.
screenshot of Fux version 35 made in Python language
Because the LEDs that we see shining everywhere are never lit like our parents’ lamps. LEDs receive small amounts of energy for a short period of time. The current is cut at a frequency high enough that to our human eyes the LED appears fixed. We can see this with rain: lit 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 has become a gift for me. I can vary the brightness of my luchrones by my program. The light of the LEDs becomes a bit like sound. I create a variation in intensity (of light) instead of a variation in tone (of sound).
Prelude - video of the Coquille de Reims in 2023