2015 Prodigal La Monte Young

ingredients are a high resolution photo of Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son, a five hours long piece for prepared piano by La Monte Young, plus two softwares: Live 9 for getting “scores“ from the music recording, and moreover Processing (built over Java for coding in visual arts). Begin with a simulation of visual exploration of the painting (measuring neighboring textures...), then modify the resulting traveling across it (geometric deformations, tint, colored ghosts) according to the score of the music. The soun