Leander: Navigating Musical Possibility Space Through Color Data Sonification
Lawton Hall · 2020
Leander is an experimental film that sonifies color data to generate its musical soundtrack. The colors of Lake Michigan, captured in time lapse video, constitute ever-changing probability vectors that govern the behavior of musical sound-events over time. This stochastic, or probabilistic approach to data sonification imagines the musical experience as movement through a virtual possibility space, rather than the end result of a causal process. This pictorial describes how color data guides the various musical parameters at play in Leander through weighted chance.