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See the wood for the trees

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About the liquid boundary between natural and mechanical

In 2013, Calefax reed quintet in collaboration with Wouter van Reek played the live animation concert See the wood for the trees.

Wouter van Reek created his own live animation program for the show. The program modifies each line that is drawn, using the movements of the draftsman and special algorithms curtailed to each music piece.

This creates volatile, moving images in which, like in music, structures emerge and disappear. The borders between mechanical and natural fade away. Trees appear to be solidified algorithms, computer chips become thorny bushes and leaf nerves may actually be data structures or bioluminescent robots or ...?
Screenshot of live animation for Arvo Pärts Arbos

Programme:

Josquin Desprez (1450-1521) (arr. Lucas van Helsdingen)	- Nymphes des bois 4'
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) from Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: 20' (arr. Raaf Hekkema)	- Contrapunctus 6 - Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu - Contrapunctus 13, rectus et inversus - Contrapunctus 7
Hans Abrahamsen (1952)	- Walden (4 parts) 12'
Arvo Pärt (1935) (arr. Eduard Wesly)	- Arbos 3'
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (arr. Raaf Hekkema)	- Waldszenen 19'
Improvisation	- See the trees for the forest ca. 5'
Sergej Prokofiev (1891-1953) (arr. Jelte Althuis)	- Visions fugitives (sel.) 15'

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