In this project, our finished art had to be controlled partly by a system. I came up with an idea to use the piano. I will attach a sheet explaining the system and the rules in a much more detailed way, but the main idea was about turning my family’s names into music and improvising a song out of it.

I used the A minor scale since that, like the alphabet, started on A. Then I separated all the letters into one of the seven different notes in that scale. Spelling out each name gave me different melodies to work with. I wrote down the notes for each name and improvised a song that used all of the progressions at least once and interwove them.

I didn’t allow myself to plan how they would go together before starting the piece. The video is the finished product.