11001 rhythm

A serialist moving image work created by appropriating Modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg’s "method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another"1. Using Schoenberg’s methodology as a basis, the work is constructed from twenty-five images structured and manipulated in accordance with a random, computer-generated sequence. Each image in the work shows a circle or line found in natural and human-made landscapes. In this way, the work becomes a binary sequence of ‘ones’ and ‘zeros’, forming both a digitisation of the analogue landscape and a visualisation of Schoenberg’s approach to music.

1 Arnold Schoenberg, Style and Idea (London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1951)