B4ch1007 ("Bach Loot")
Jeff Morris
Video graphic score composed by Jeff Morris
Performed by Ulrich Maiss, cello, and Jeff Morris, live sampling
This is a set of variations on J. S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (BWV 1007), especially its famous opening motive. Silent videos are presented as graphic scores meant to be interpreted by the performers. Source images come from a manuscript believed to be copied down by Anna Magdalena Bach and a scrolling computer-typeset version by YouTube user gerubach for the Scrolling Bach Project.
The source images are processed by software created by the composer, which is driven by an audio recording of Bach's Cello Suite. These studies aren't intended to sound exactly (or much) like Bach's composition, but by using it as an ingredient in creating these studies, they should carry some of the suite's essence, in one way or another. Movements are titled with anagrams of the titles of movements from the baroque suite, reinterpreted in 1337 ("leet speak").
Here, the first, second, and final movements are presented, titled 3ld3r_up, d3m34n4ll, and zh336.