"Frozen" Mozart's Trio C-Major

Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets.




"Extrusions in C Major is an experiment in music visualization. The composition used for these images is the Trio C-Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "


"The computer software analyzes a range of note characteristics such as value, velocity, duration, and overall tempo. The notes of the various instruments are differentiated by color: white for piano, yellow for violin, and blue for cello."



"Further differences between the compositions is achieved through the rotation of forms while they grow and produce more curvy structures. These structures develop segment by segment, so each segment represents a note of a particular instrument from the composition. In addition, each note's characteristic -- velocity, value, and duration -- is translated in the segment's weight, length, and rotation."



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