Generative art experiments

Exercise for the course «Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts with p5.js» @kadenzeofficial

This graphic pattern represents the structure of the song «Chayn Gang» created by Twit One, but the original sample is a prison song named «Early In The Mornin'» and it was recorded by Alan Lomax in 1947-1948 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. The singers were all Negro prisoners who were serving out their time by working on a cotton plantation.

So the choice of the shapes it’s not a coincidence, the gradient circles remind the work and the movement of those men, the lines the jail and the dots the cotton.

To understand the graphic pattern you have to read it as if it were a score (from left to right and top to bottom), but instead staves and notes, each graphic represents the addition of a sound.