Generative Sibelius
About This Project
“Generative Sibelius” (short excerpt)
“Generative Sibelius” is an experimental video piece featuring an audiovisual transformation of a 1950’s film of composer Jean Sibelius in his home in Finland, recreating his everyday life in self-imposed isolation. The final video was exported from a custom piece of generative software that performs audio manipulations of Sibelius’ Op. 75 No. 5, a piece for solo piano known as “The Spruce”. The audio was analyzed, and the resulting data used as control parameters for a series of complex visual transformations of the film.
This piece is part of a research project that investigates art appropriation and digital fragmentation as a bridge between music technology and the classical tradition, by performing extensive digital alterations on music from the common practice period.