The idea for the Music Animation Machine started with a hallucination that happened while I was listening to one of Bach's sonatas for unaccompanied violin ...
As I listened to the music, the notes on the page were dancing to the music
— but at the same time, they were the music. It was so charming
and graceful — the flag of an eighth note extending like a ballet
dancer's arm; pairs of notes moving in parallel thirds and sixths like pairs of
dancers stepping hand-in-hand ... I was delighted!
But ... what would a more complicated score look like ... ?