Traces on the Farther Side

A music visualization in real time.

Andrew Lucia and Wendy Steiner.  
Commissioned by Parthenia Viol Consort, to accompany live or recorded performances of Frances White's A Flower on the farther side (after Hildegard of Bingen's Alleluia, o virga mediatrix), a 15-minute composition for four viols and pre-recorded wind and viol sounds (2010). 

Studies for the development of Traces on the Farther Side.

Traces on the Farther Side, still frame generated from an interactive real-time visualzation. From a recorded performance of A Flower on the farther side.

Traces on the Farther Side, still frame generated from an interactive real-time visualzation. From a recorded performance of A Flower on the farther side.

see a video here [be sure to watch in HD].

Credits:
Andrew Lucia, co-director and computational design.
Wendy Steiner, co-director and producer.
Commissioned by Parthenia Viol Consort, for live or recorded performances of Frances White's A Flower on the farther side.

Visualization built with Processing implimenting the Minim and Beads libraries.