Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

After looking at some of the images and videos and artists we've discussed in class over the last two weeks, I somehow fell into a fit of Faulknerian stream of consciousness (only fitting as it was a favoured style of Burroughs, Miller, T.S. Eliot, and more of the writer-contemporaries of these artists). Through the looking-glass door and down the yellow-brick hyperlinked road that is the web, this is where I landed. George Antheil, a composer and contemporary and collaborator of Jean Cocteau (whose film Orpheus was very avant-garde and inspired One Hit Wonder a-ha's "Take on Me" video, a marvelous piece of rotoscopic animation - see how it all goes in circles), is perhaps best known for his "Ballet Mechanique", a score originally designed to accompany a piece by a couple of French experimental filmmakers. Antheil described his piece as "Scored for countless numbers of player pianos. All percussive. Like machines. All efficiency. No LOVE. Written withou