Frédéric Vayssouze-Faure
Mathematics, music, computer science : these are the roots of the
digital pieces of work I create.
My interest for musical theory and its physical and mathematical
founding principles (Pythagoras, d'Alembert, Fourier) have led my work
on animations composed of simple motions, generally periodic,
especially sinusoidal.
Object-oriented programming has given me a great freedom to explore my
ideas about forms and motions.
Each piece of work can be seen as a mathematical object developed in
multiple dimensions: cloning, position, scale, colour... and, above
all, time.
The temporal evolution is both simple in its premises and unexpected.
Forms appear (numbers!), kinematic continuity blends with spatial and
cognitive discontinuity.
Periodic motion, at the core of music but also of many familiar
phenomenons (star motions, heart beats, sea waves...), makes these
pieces of work universal. Each and every one is able to wonder, to
grasp, to marvel at the underlying beauty of the process.
exp(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x) : sinusoidal motion is a projection of
circular motion.
This may be where its beauty mostly comes from.
What makes us the same? What differentiates us? What makes us
unique?
Form, size, skin colour, place and date of birth, direction,
trajectory, speed. A lot of common points, but also differences,
may they be real or imaginary. A strong link, the affiliation to
the same community (class), despite our uniqueness (as instances).
Picking a guitar string generates sinusoidal waves of multiple frequencies called harmonics. This piece of work, by its construction, tries to depict the acoustic beauty of a vibrating string.