Enfantines2

Petit prélude à la journée

Berceuse

Marche du grand escalier

Shapes

Mouvement 1 - GM

Mouvement 2 - LULLABY

Mouvement 3 - FANTASTIC TALE

The annotations for the Petit prélude are a matter-of-fact itinerary that Satie certainly followed himself ("Wake up...Brush your hair well...Go for a good walk")

In the Berceuse, little Pierrot is tucked in for the night by his mother. She assures him his grandparents will know he was a good boy - they'll see it in the newspaper.

In the Marche a king has built a 1000-step ivory staircase so beautiful that people are afraid to use it. The king himself leaves his room by jumping out the window. He is so fond of the staircase he wants to have it stuffed.

Each of the three movements display a different family of shapes, connected to Satie's stories for the three movements.

⭐ Star 🌙 Moon 🌷 Tulip 🦉 Owl

☀️ Sun (spirals) 🌻 Flower 🌧️ Cloud 🦋 Butterfly

♦️ Diamond ♣️ Club ❤️Heart ♠️Spade

Palettes

Compositions

Ensemble

Tears in the Rain

Duet

Ensembles are strange and abstract clusters freely composed by the algorithm with a few very basic rules. They tend to produce strange creatures that resemble "human animals" by Corneille, Constant, and Appel

(My favourite)

Ordered groupings of a single shape. They look like prep work for Ensembles, where the algorithm is testing shapes and their positioning.

(Very calm and architectural)

A dance. A perfect duet, left and right piano hands sounding together.

(They just work)

Blanc Ivoire

Noir d'Ivoire

Bleu Outremer Foncé

Le Rubis

Outremer Gris

Gris Clair

Bleu Outremer

Subtle turquoise colours drawn on a special corrugated paper

Playful palette made for children and painted on recycled paper

(my fav)

Polychromie Architecturale designed by Le Corbusier

Warm, purplish palette that has been with me since Maps of Life. The OG.

The evolution of the BLeU palette. Surrealist colours with varying colours for the doodle-lines. Very special when it works. A bit dull when it doesn't.

Monochrome strokes on a blue special paper. Nightiest night.

For Black and White enthusiasts

Disclaimer: This is a WILD algorithm, since it tries to emulate children drawings —children having a wild imagination and a non-polished technique—. The unstructured compositions are intended, and still unexpected when looked at, one by one. I'll be studying them over the course of the nex months. I think they have a lot to teach us for Enfantines III (the last of the series)

Please. Open your favourite pieces live and select MUSIC mode. It completely changes the artwork.