Word-eating worms0.18340702611021698
0.4%
Project #17557 — iteration #12
Minted on August 5, 2022 at 18:00Animated
Audiovisual generative artwork.
An old letter recounts the problems and feelings caused by woodworms: worms known to eat not only the beams and wood of houses, but also old books. As an analogy to this daily occurrence, emoticons appear and with the good spirit of simplifying they begin to gnaw away so much literary flourish.
The piece puts in counterpoint two forms of communication: emoticons and traditional writing. Here an inevitable contrast is sought between the standardization of the feelings of emojis, and the excessive flourishes of texts, possibly already from other times.
Original flute (tap & frullato), cello (pizz) and marimba samplers.
((click to start sound))
[s] -> save 2160x2160px (in live view)
An old letter recounts the problems and feelings caused by woodworms: worms known to eat not only the beams and wood of houses, but also old books. As an analogy to this daily occurrence, emoticons appear and with the good spirit of simplifying they begin to gnaw away so much literary flourish.
The piece puts in counterpoint two forms of communication: emoticons and traditional writing. Here an inevitable contrast is sought between the standardization of the feelings of emojis, and the excessive flourishes of texts, possibly already from other times.
Original flute (tap & frullato), cello (pizz) and marimba samplers.
((click to start sound))
[s] -> save 2160x2160px (in live view)
Features
kind of lettersmall
48.9%
rotated letterfalse
83.8%
backgrounddark
63%
trail brightness [0-100]60
16.2%
trail hue [0-360]101
0.4%
amount of distorted trail [0-20]20
10.2%
input of emoticonshalf apart
39.1%
location of emoticon holesfree
22.6%
location of vertical trailsright
21.3%
emoticons fill color#ffd500
56.6%
nº of emoticon music holes8
6.8%
scale notesB4, C5, C#5, D5
1.3%
modulation optionsB4 - A#4 - A4 - G#4 - G4 - F#4 - F4 - E4 - D#4 - D4 - C#4 - C4
1.3%
main rhythmic figures64th note, dotted 16th note, and half note
25.5%
Features
Word-eating worms0.18340702611021698
0.4%
kind of lettersmall
48.9%
rotated letterfalse
83.8%
backgrounddark
63%
trail brightness [0-100]60
16.2%
trail hue [0-360]101
0.4%
amount of distorted trail [0-20]20
10.2%
input of emoticonshalf apart
39.1%
location of emoticon holesfree
22.6%
location of vertical trailsright
21.3%
emoticons fill color#ffd500
56.6%
nº of emoticon music holes8
6.8%
scale notesB4, C5, C#5, D5
1.3%
modulation optionsB4 - A#4 - A4 - G#4 - G4 - F#4 - F4 - E4 - D#4 - D4 - C#4 - C4
1.3%
main rhythmic figures64th note, dotted 16th note, and half note
25.5%