After completing the Nosaj Thing live show, I wanted to further investigate the possibilities of a live performance. As it stands, the musical content is created first, and graphics are created to accompany the music. During my meeting with Ben Hooker, I briefly talked about the idea of the recursive musical/visual performance. My question was how can I use visuals to create music and how can my music create visuals? The answer was to use a recursive algorithm to generating sound and graphics exponentially. If I just hit one note, the computer should take over and generate content until I choose to stop or play a different note. A chordal progression should yield a corresponding visual sequence. One method could be to use the Fibonacci Sequence or the Sierpinski Triangle (pictured above). I will have experiments done in the next couple weeks using this method.
