Clavilux 2000 - Interactive Instrument for Generative Music Visualisation

The Clavilux 2000 is an interactive instrument which is able to generate a live visualisation of any music played on a digital piano. The setting of the installation consists of three parts: a digital piano with 88 keys and midi output, a computer running a vvvv patch and a vertical projection above the keyboard.

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For every note played on the keyboard, a new visual element appears in the form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and speed the way the particular key was struck. Colours give the viewer/listener an impression of the harmonic relations: each key has its own colour scheme and "wrong" notes stand out in contrasting colours.

All stripes stay and overlap each other in an additive way, so at the end a kind of pattern remains - a summary of the music - which will be always unique since the notes of the composition as well as the interpretation of the piano player and influencing the outcome. Also, the piano player can switch between the standard 2D view and an additional 3D view of the visualisation while playing.

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