An Alteration of Twelve-Tone Row in Atonal Music from the Concerto for 9 Instruments to the Circle of fifths

Abstract

An alteration of twelve-tone row in atonal music from the concerto for 9 instruments to the circle of fifths is a creative art research. Its purpose is to decode the twelve-note row from the atonal music and the circle of fifths as 2-dimensional wave patterns in order to study the relationship between sound and visual images. This research uses both documentary and other related research procedures. To build a computer-controlled plate kit, Chladni plates of various shapes and sizes of which are composed of various materials with 12 colours of silica sand are arranged into groups of notes. The circle of fifths of Alexander Scriabin is applied to decode the concertos for nine instruments by Anton Webern and the experimental results have created new media art with digital technology, consisting of video art and digital pinhole photography, of which there are 3 sets of each, according to the composition of the poem, which are divided into 3 movements. The results demonstrated that the sound wave patterns that emerged from the notes that make up of the coloured chords continued to show the characteristics of atonal music in various musical colours. The inconsistency of the melody and silica sand colour arrangement of notes and chords in the circle of fifths reduces the dissonance of colours. This is consistent with a blend of light waves that are more harmonious than sound waves. The time-based media of music is reduced, while the perception will occur at a glance. Digital pinhole camera images present two levels of cognitive truth: the truth of the process of vision transmitted to human eyes, and the colour perception, overlaid with pinhole camera photography that represents human perception.