interactive web site and
concert work for solo violin or cello
Performance duration: 5-10 minutes
About
Graph Theory seeks to connect composition, listening, and
concert performance by coupling an acoustic work for solo violin or solo cello
to an interactive web site. On the web site, users navigate among sixty-one
short, looping musical fragments to create their own unique path through the
composition.
The navigation choices which users make affect future concert
performances of the work. Before each performance, the soloist prints out a new
copy of the score from the web site. That score presents her with a fixed path
through the piece; the order of the fragments is influenced by the decisions
that recent web site visitors have made.
Graph Theory is a 2005 commission of New
Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site.
It was made possible with funding from The Greenwall Foundation.
Graph Theory was created in collaboration with designer Patricia Reed and violinist Maja Cerar.