Technologies for Transcendence (to Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Evan Parker) is an audiovisual digital art object by Massimo Magee, designed to be read by the computer as both a visual still image and as an audio piece, these being two readings of the same file. The piece was shaped across both visual and audio domains functionally simultaneously, meaning that a change in the visual domain also affected the audio, and a change in the audio also affected the visual. It contains the sounds of image data with digital treatments, virtual organ generated from the image data, and live sopranino saxophone, and was all created at Massimo Magee’s studio in London, UK in 2020.

For more information on this process, see massimomagee.com

Contains:

High resolution image reading: jpeg, 2777×3777 px, 72 dpi

Lossless audio reading: wav, 7min 56sec

High Resolution Movie file with both image and audio: mp4, 1694x2304px, 7min 57sec

Originally released on the Blockchain Art Exchange v1 website in 2020, now transferred here.