Imagery

The artwork creates its imagery on the fly, employing a variety of methods for two kinds of representation:

• Diagrams of its evolving conception and manipulation of the musical structure.
  
  
• Depictions of the musicians interpreting the score (4). While this imagery derives from video of the musicians’ performances, it abstracts it to point-and-line relationships and resolution-independent textures.

Enlightenment varies its imagery continuously not only to reflect its changing grasp of the music, but also to try out new arrangements of its own visual vocabulary.

With each of its runs, the artwork proceeds through four distinct stages, as described and illustrated on the following four screens.