Universo musical

My work “Musical Universe” created in p5.js wants to show how music, thanks to technological advances, is present everywhere. Metaphorically speaking, in the universe. The circle is the soundhole of a guitar, and within it, planets and stars representing the universe.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The writer Paul Valéry in the conquest of ubiquity (1928) talks about fine arts. As they were in times different from ours and as they are now. It tells us about the importance of the media, their great scope and how they constantly change and grow. How the idea of ​​art is transformed, mainly the reproduction and transmission part. And he says that among all the arts, music is the one that is closest to the idea of ​​modernity. Music is something universal and is present at all times of our lives. A few years ago we couldn’t choose when to listen to a piece, we had to wait for the exact place and time where the piece was playing. Today it can be played at any time and anywhere in the world, that is what I wanted to represent in the work, how music is present everywhere, and metaphorically, in the universe. A part that caught my attention in Valery’s text says ”…There are bad days; there are very lonely people, and there is no shortage of those whom age or helplessness locks up within themselves, who already know themselves well. Here are those empty and sad moments and those beings destined for yawning and taciturn thoughts are now masters of adorning their leisure or infusing it with passion.” This made me think about the importance of music and its free reproduction. Music is a way of feeling life, each melody is linked to a feeling, mood, experience, company, situation or place. It is the way to let off steam, to go from sadness to happiness in a second.

I based myself on the technique of informalism, which was one of those used by Luis Benedit, it is an artistic movement that encompasses all abstract and gestural trends, with flat tones and synthetic shapes. I was also interested in this artist who was also related to technological advances. Benedit painted in various works such as: “Corn Box”, “Taba”, “Knife”, “Wire Box”, advances in technological systems and how it influenced society. He exhibited the exhibition “Materials, new techniques, new expressions” at the Museum of Fine Arts. And he also participated in the Art and Cybernetics exhibition, which was organized by Jorge Glusberg with the purpose of exhibiting computer designs.

Biography

• VALÉRY, Paul. ([1960], 1999). The conquest of ubiquity (1928). In Pieces about art. Madrid: Visor, pp.131-133.