Pattern
Index

Thanks for having a look / listen to the first track from my new AV album project. I was asked to make a show for the Royal Albert Hall in London which is a huge cavernous historic space, so I started to think about how I could fill it with structure, and how particular structures relate to how we feel, both in terms of external art and architecture, but also internally through neural networks and spiking patterns. There’s a rich collection of connections between structures and feelings I started to explore, one of which was patterns in melody and architecture.

Rather than starting with some feeling or visual scene to map to music as I would usually do, I wanted to start with the process for generating the structure and see what happened if I just kept adding more and more. For a long time it wasn’t working, but I just kept adding layers of patterns on top of each other and eventually some magic happened. Becuase of that approach the music needs some time to layer and develop I hope you have a moment to spare for it.

Visually I was interested in this index of patterns applied to the built environment. I chatted to Katia Schutz and Jack Fisher about how we could identify particular motifs in architecture and highlight them as the building blocks of the world around us the same way as I had applied a barrage of melodic pattern building blocks musically. Katia focused on the stop frame layering of pattern sequences whilst Jack drew on his collection of time lapse footage to connect the patterns to us living amongst them. Many thanks to Katia and Jack for the beautiful project.

Lots more to follow on the wider “Feeling is Structure” album project soon.