Flora

This piece was composed by Tod Machover in 1989, on commission from Fuji Television in Tokyo, and as a collaboration with Japanese computer graphics artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi. The music does not attempt to slavishly follow the content or progression of his video; rather it uses Kawaguchi’s astonishing mixture of abstract, synthetic images and organic, life-like evolution as a metaphor for the musical composition, where melodies become splintered, and voices turn into electronic clouds and snap back again into lively rhythmic punctuations.

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