triangle + reverb
Audi tabulas.
— HEAR THE PLATES · THE CHORD MADE AUDIBLE —
PROJECT LAVOS · TONE.JS · POLYSYNTH · D-MAJOR · 15 NOTES
Specimen 045 rendered the chord as light. This page sounds it. Each of the fifteen plates of The Studies is mapped to a pitch — D3 to D5, a D-major voicing — and rendered live in your browser through a polyphonic synthesizer. The colors of the chord become a chord of pitches; the visual sequence becomes an arpeggio. Audi tabulas. Hear the plates.
triangle + reverb
D3 — D5
~3.5 sec
tonejs.github.io
The chord was the visual proof of fifteen plates. The score is its audible counterpart. Each plate is a note; the order is preserved; the voicing is D major because D major sounds like dawn light. The arpeggio reads the body of work front-to-back. The chord plays it all simultaneously.
Tone.js is a Web Audio framework — specimen 004 in this catalog. The score's PolySynth instantiates fifteen synth voices, allocates one per note, and plays them through a shared reverb. Browser-class composition. The chord, sounding.
The chord rendered. The score sounding. The corpus, audible.