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. Flora is available on the same CD as
Bug-Mudra.
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