Legato

October 16, 2002 12:46 PM

Legato and Avant La Nuit are two exquisite interactive pieces by Nicolas Clauss, a "painter who stopped 'traditional painting' to use multimedia and the internet as a canvas", working from his Flying Puppet studio in Paris. [ Requires Shockwave. Use your mouse.]
posted by MiguelCardoso (10 comments total)

Beautiful indeed, I especially like Legato. Short, intriguing, beautiful and a bit fun. Thanks Migual.
posted by kokogiak at 2:23 PM on October 16, 2002

Ooh, and there are more lovely projects here, like this one. Nice way to pass some time otherwise better spent working.
posted by kokogiak at 2:40 PM on October 16, 2002

This is the most compelling use of technology for art I've seen. Thanks for sharing this. Also, I think Legato is not quite as short as kokogiak supposed. I haven't figured it all out yet, but the leaves and the pizzicato bass lines seem to clear text in the sand, though it's slow going. That's probably a worthwhile challenge, especially in this medium.
posted by divrsional at 3:17 PM on October 16, 2002

wonderful - thanks, Miguel.
posted by modge at 3:27 PM on October 16, 2002

Beautiful work - reminds me of the Real World CD ROM Ceremony of Innocence, which I absolutely loved... before I upgraded to Windows 2000. It just won't run on this platform. Anyone out there found a solution to this problem?
posted by davebush at 5:55 PM on October 16, 2002

Oh! This is beautiful stuff - Thanks, Miguel!

Do check out Paper Dreams, on this site as well; I wanted it to just keep going on, and on, and on...
posted by taz at 7:40 PM on October 16, 2002

Hey Miguel, where'd you hear about Clauss?

(Be sure to observe who was the first commenter in that thread.)

(It's a fabulous site, well deserving of multiple links.)
posted by gleuschk at 10:00 PM on October 16, 2002

Miguel, this is a fabulous site - what a wonderful use of music with art. I liked his paintings too. Really neat stuff, thanks.

There are lots of great things on the site - I was particularly smitten by Sorciere.
posted by madamjujujive at 10:05 PM on October 16, 2002

Avant La Nuit was haunting.

A great site to explore.

Thanks, Miguel!
posted by hama7 at 6:50 AM on October 17, 2002

davebush: i had a similar problem running realworld's eVe after upgrading to w2k. i initially didn't load the quicktime software from the eVe installer, as i assumed my newer version would be better. as it turns out, after reinstalling and accepting the older version of qt, eVe ran like a charm. not sure if that'll help in your case, but i just wanted to mention it.
posted by modge at 9:03 AM on October 17, 2002