The lines in Virginia Jaramillo's "Quanta" can easily be followed with your eyes across the painting, but when stepping back and looking at the collection of them as a whole, it can be chaotic, seemingly random. How do you feel when looking at those lines up close? Far away?
Composer Iannis Xenakis was an architect and used math and graphing for many of his works. "Metastaseis" was his first major orchestra work and uses 61 players - all playing their own graphs. This piece is based on time, warfare and mathematics, and the original score looks more like a blueprint than musical notation. When listening, how do these separate, but concurrent parts meld together? How do they balance each other out, or crash into each other?
Want to explore more music inspired by Virginia Jaramillo's artwork? Listen to our Spotify playlist for full pieces.
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