Following Gostomski, who wrote that the assumption behind the work It Begins in Wrocław is its “constant and infinite development, evenly progressing in all directions, which will cover more and more distant areas (with respect to the starting point),” I decided to create a robot generating an infinite number of variants of overwriting Frank’s score and using sequences from John Cage’s piece entitled 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs.
The generating clock will run as a software application on the Internet, and it will be synchronised with Western European time (UTC ± 00:00). The procedure of randomly selecting 49 sets of frequencies will take place every 147 hours, taking into account the random parameter of time for the segments between them and creating a new composition each time. The subject of extending the coverage area will be solved by another programme: a generator randomly choosing towns and cities (in the Google Maps application) whose number of streets exceeds 147 and then creating new sets of streets (49×3) and randomly combining them with the frequencies selected by the first clock.
By 2043, the machine will create 1,370 variants of the composition.
The palimpsest to Matěj Frank’s OVERINTERPRETATIONS, as a part of series of musical events accompanying the New Normativity. Wrocław ’70 Visual Arts Symposium exhibition (Michael Pisaro, Bill Dietz, Jarosław Kozłowski, Maximiliano Bober, Gerard Lebik) commissioned by Wrocław Contemporary Muzeum
curated by Paweł Szroniak