TV Music (1-5/5)
In "TV Music" (1979) Bruszewski added sensors to the screen of a conventional television. Each converted light into sound played through a speaker. When the light intensity changed on the screen, the pitch of the note altered too. Three sensors produced something like a chord, although the harmonic relations of these changing notes were unstable and arbitrary. One way of interpreting TV Music was to see the broadcast image – news reports and feature films – as a kind of score
which is generating an indeterminate piece of music by chance, a long-standing preoccupation of experimental composers like John Cage.
[M.David Crowley "A Little Music" [w:] "Wojciech Bruszewski. Across Realities", Warszawa 2014.]
