resonate to This

Rabari woman in glitch

“Music, as the true model of temporal structure, is most worthy of study among prior arts. Music is the supreme example of movement become pattern. Music is time given sublime shape. If for no other reason than its universality and its status in the collective mind, music invites imitation. A visual art should give the same superior shape to the temporal order that we expect of music. As with the twenty-six elements of the alphabet, music’s hierarchal pattern of tones provide the model for a visual art with which to “make infinite use of finite means” to construct “architecture.”

The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Géricault

What is the nature and function of motion in all art? What are the relations of motion and emotion?

“A painting, regardless of implicit dynamics, still exists passively fixed in time. But a new art might pattern action in time with all elements in motion at all times. The graphic problem, then, will be how to manipulate a field of visual elements so that all parts will contribute purposely to some temporal (time-structured) design.” (Whitney, 1980:37)

Sync (by Max Hattler)

Animation (unfortunately computer slows down and gets choppy when screen recording..):

Password: resonatetothis

Processing

// Rose Display - Jim Bumgardner // // The Rose Equation was the basis of John Whitney's RD/TD motion graphics system, described in his book Digital Harmony.

Integrating the code with the visual result?

Processing

// Transcription of program arabesque // originally prepared by Paul Rother for John Whitney for the book "Digital Harmony" // ported to the Processing language by Jim Bumgardner

Processing code here: http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/1270