Graph Theory

"Jason Freeman is an Associate Professor of Music in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Patricia Reed (1977, Ottawa, Canada) completed her studies in Studio Arts at Concordia University, Montréal (1999). Maja Cerar is a concert violinist who studied with Aida Stucki- Piraccini in Zurich and with Dorothy DeLay in New York and is currently completing her Ph.D in Historical Musicology at Columbia University. 'Graph Theory' seeks to connect composition, listening, and concert performance by coupling an acoustic work for solo violin or solo cello to an interactive web site. On the web site, users navigate among sixty-one short, looping musical fragments to create their own unique path through the composition. The navigation choices which users make affect future concert performances of the work. Before each performance, the soloist prints out a new copy of the score from the web site. That score presents her with a fixed path through the piece; the order of the fragments is influenced by the decisions that recent web site visitors have made." -- From Turbulence