Word-eating worms0.035120527958497405
0.4%
Project #17557 — iteration #16
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 letterparchment
24.3%
rotated lettertrue
16.2%
backgrounddark
63%
trail brightness [0-100]60
16.2%
trail hue [0-360]113
0.9%
amount of distorted trail [0-20]0
34.9%
input of emoticonstogether
43.8%
location of emoticon holesright
23.8%
location of vertical trailsright
21.3%
emoticons fill color#ffd500
56.6%
nº of emoticon music holes7
15.3%
scale notesA#4
3.4%
modulation optionsA#4 - F#4 - D#4
6.8%
main rhythmic figures64th note, 16th note, and dotted half note
63.4%
Features
Word-eating worms0.035120527958497405
0.4%
kind of letterparchment
24.3%
rotated lettertrue
16.2%
backgrounddark
63%
trail brightness [0-100]60
16.2%
trail hue [0-360]113
0.9%
amount of distorted trail [0-20]0
34.9%
input of emoticonstogether
43.8%
location of emoticon holesright
23.8%
location of vertical trailsright
21.3%
emoticons fill color#ffd500
56.6%
nº of emoticon music holes7
15.3%
scale notesA#4
3.4%
modulation optionsA#4 - F#4 - D#4
6.8%
main rhythmic figures64th note, 16th note, and dotted half note
63.4%