Beethoven.Symphonies.01
Each of these drawings was generated during the playback of a symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven. If you are familiar with the music, you should be able to sense the differences between them. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is over twice as long as many of the others and as a result, its drawing is more dense. Its chorale gives Ninth its vibrant yellows. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the deeper tones of its distinctive four-note motif give Fifth its deeper, red tone.
With this process, the canvas is filled with sixteen groups of randomly placed points. Each group is keyed to a frequency band. The points move in circles around the canvas as music is playing. When a point is a certain distance from another point in its group, curves are drawn from positions around each point in a color keyed to its group's frequency band. If a point reaches a certain distance from the edge of the drawing it is assigned a new location on the other side.
When generating these drawings, I only had access to Symphonies 5–9. Someday, I'll generate some with Symphonies 1–4.
