Twelve-tone floor
Hand inked floor print on latex cement
Dimensions 3420 mm x 2325 mm
A carpet with the sound of its own making.
Arnold Schönberg composed his first twelve-tone piece in the summer of 1921.
The basis of twelve-tone technique is the tone row.
Unlike tonality, no notes predominate, nor is any hierarchy of importance assigned to individual tones.
Arrangements are premised on the following conditions:
1) The row is a specific and unique ordering of all twelve notes.
2) No note is repeated within the row.
3) The row may appear in inversion, retrograde or retrograde-inversion, in addition to its original form.
4) The row may be freely transposed.
Within any twelve-tone matrix there are potentially 479,001,600 unique row forms.
Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered patterns play no part in the visual results.
A hand performed floor with the potential to be both seen and heard.
Something made on hands and knees.
Not necessarily a beautiful or mysterious music just the captivating outcome of an opaque process.
Collaborators
Studio Wayne McGregor
Spectrum Art & Design
Guy Westerberg
Photography
Douglas Tuck
We Not I
Twelve-tone floor
Hand inked floor print on latex cement
Dimensions 3420 mm x 2325 mm.
A carpet with the sound of its own making.
Arnold Schönberg composed his first twelve-tone piece in the summer of 1921.
The basis of twelve-tone technique is the tone row.
Unlike tonality, no notes predominate, nor is any hierarchy of importance assigned to individual tones.
Arrangements are premised on the following conditions:
1) The row is a specific and unique ordering of all twelve notes.
2) No note is repeated within the row.
3) The row may appear in inversion, retrograde or retrograde-inversion, in addition to its original form.
4) The row may be freely transposed.
Within any twelve-tone matrix there are potentially 479,001,600 unique row forms.
Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered patterns play no part in the visual results.
A hand performed floor with the potential to be both seen and heard.
Something made on hands and knees.
Not necessarily a beautiful or mysterious music just the captivating outcome of an opaque process.
Collaborators
Studio Wayne McGregor
Spectrum Art & Design
Guy Westerberg
Photography
Douglas Tuck
We Not I