Creating Contexts of Creativity: Musical Composition with Modular Components
This addresses the challenge of creating adaptable music for interactive art installations, but it is incremental as it builds on existing modular composition techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling musical expression by combining pre-composed modular components, resulting in a modular soundtrack for an interactive video wall installation set to open in 2001.
This paper describes a series of projects that explore the possibilities of musical expression through the combination of pre-composed, interlocking, modular components. In particular, this paper presents a modular soundtrack recently composed by the author for "Currents of Creativity," a permanent interactive video wall installation at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center which is slated to open Easter 2001 in Washington, DC.