I know lots of composers have created works around mathematical constructs such as the Fibonacci sequence. I would like to learn if any composers have used mathematical constructs in their music to represent journeys.
How do you mean 'journeys'. that is quite a broad term. it is musical journeys, or travel journeys?
Nice question. I'd run to Iannis Xanakis first but I don't know that musical journeys feature in his work. Hmmmmmmmm Food for thought. Its hard for me to see how formulaic work would have that kind of symphonic poem kind of influence.I'm not that sure what the question is but I'm loving the challenge.
I have a second answer to this. I just recently was the tech lead in creating the Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland. For their inaugural performance I created a VR composition using a VR performance system I created using ideas from Embodied Musical Cognition. All very clever and phd research blah blah. But as a composer I needed to give it structure. That became a story we would tell using VR. My performers gave me the story, I composed the music and built the VR system based on what they taught me.But it used a lot of code where I take data from the 3D objects and affect musical data based on that. It's not quite using the musical journey as my data but using the experience of the real/virtual world as my data for composition.
Dear Natalie Salerno clearly Johann Sebastian Bach! Please see this article entitled
THE MATHEMATICAL ARCHITECTURE OF BACH’S ‘‘THE ART OF FUGUE’’
which is available as full text on RG.
Article THE MATHEMATICAL ARCHITECTURE OF BACH’S ‘‘THE ART OF FUGUE’’
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