Concierto: Point Line Piano. Jarosław Kapuściński [Polonia]
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"Point Line Piano" is a VR project that reimagines the composition, performance, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating, playing, and listening. As you interact with it, your ears, eyes, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables a spatial and full-body experience of abstraction not found in any other medium. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument.
Jarosław Kapuściński is an Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University,
where he is affiliated also with the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
His research focuses on intermedia composition, performance, and Japanese traditional
aesthetics.
Kapuściński has received grants and commissions from numerous international
organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Governor General of
Canada, and Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) in France. His works have been
awarded prizes at festivals in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United States, and
have been presented at venues such as New York MOMA, Spoleto USA, EMPAC NY,
Logan Center in Chicago, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid, WRO
Media Biennale, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Creative Media Center in Hong Kong, Benz
Arena in Shanghai, and National Art Centre in Ottawa.
In addition to his artistic work, Kapuściński has collaborated on scholarly websites about
Japanese Gagaku music (gagaku.stanford.edu) and Noh Theater (noh.stanford.edu).
Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser have collaborated as OpenEndedGroup since 2001.
Working in a broad variety of media and venues:, they make art for façade, gallery,
dance, stage, 3D cinema, print, and virtual reality. Their works respond to a wide range
of materials — drawing, film, motion capture, photography, music, and architecture.
They frequently combine three signature elements: non-photorealistic 3D rendering; the
incorporation of body movement by motion-capture and other means; and the autonomy
of artworks directed or assisted by artificial intelligence.
OpenEndedGroup’s films, installations, stage works, and VR pieces have premiered in
such venues as MoMA, Lincoln Center, the Barbican, the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Hayward Gallery, Sadler’s Wells, and the
Berlin, New York, and Rome film festivals. Eight of their 3D digital films were the first of
their kind to enter MoMA’s permanent collection.
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