Triptychos is a digital media triptych, transforming realtime images from a video camera into an abstract graphical music score, and interpreting the score to play an interactive, algorithmic soundtrack.
The panes of the triptych expose the analytical process from left to right: video capture (left), thresholding and downsampling (centre), and graphical score (right).
The sound engine is a sophisticated sample manipulation instrument. Instructions from the score recall different audio selections, tunings and key intervals, and individual instrument voices play samples forwards or backwards, often changing direction and speed within a single note.
Triptychos has been specially commissioned for Cut and Splice by Sonic Arts Network.
Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer. He has built performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt, Vienna Volksoper and Braunarts, and has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe). He has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban), and has performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), at the ICA, and at the Science Museum's Dana Centre. Current projects include Quartet (with director Margie Medlin), E-Merge (with Jane Turner), and the Portable Artefact with Ricochet Dance Productions.
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