Player-Piano Migration I
Algorithmic compositions for player piano created by re-mapping a Lithuanian fugue subject via data generated from the journey my family made from Lithuania to the UK.
I researched the travels of my family, focussing on the female line, starting by tracing my great-grandmother’s migration from Lithuania to the UK in 1895. I then created a series of works based on these migration routes and the migration patterns of birds. The first three works are compositions on paper piano rolls for player piano created using algorithms that respond to the data gathered from the migration routes of my family. This process involved using custom-made software, (Seismus) designed by my father, Chris Hinde at Loughborough University. The source material for these re-mappings is from a fugue written in the late 19th Century by Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis composed the year my grandmother was born. This fugue subject has been ‘displaced’ from Klaipedia, Lithuania to Wigan, UK then layered and restructured in a new way.
