Revisiting December Hollow: Unearthing emotive shape

Abstract

This paper documents an ongoing project between the composer/engineer Peter Zinovieff, composer Milton Mermikides and violinist Anne-Marie Curran-Cundy. The project is a developed realisation of Zinovieff’s 1969 December Hollow ‘fold-out score’ concept. The compositional system is designed to generate electronic music and/or conventional scores by slicing through a three-dimensional topographical score of ‘emotional zones’. Each zone is associated with a vector of musical parameters and by selecting various trajectories through the shape, countless pieces may be generated. This paper briefly outlines the approach taken to realize this idea, and develop it with the implementation of real-time processing, the mapping of score space with RGB space and vector transformations of Schumann’s Mein Herz ist Schwer, within an adaptive performance model.

Contributors

Milton Mermikides

Peter Zinovieff

Anne-Marie Curran-Cundy

Conference

Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 96-99

Affiliations

University of Surrey

London, UK

Unaffiliated

Cambridge, UK

University of Surrey

Guildford, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.16

Copyright statement: © Mermikides et al. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2020

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing