Page "Carlos Sandoval" Paragraph 37

“ The use of computers may allow scientists to better understand creative processes, but not always may allow artists to better understand science.

The idealized joint science-artistic abstraction is a myth.

Nevertheless, I believe in deterministic dreams and imaginary landscapes of rational thoughts .” In Berlin, Sandoval meets some computer-science specialists and starts developing his work with sensors.

His third " manifesto ", published in Germany in 2009 interpose cultural, artistic and political values to the pure act of sonification using technology.

His work with living trees with accelerometers and hands with tactile sensors are based on random-picking software, giving objective transduction of physical phenomena a " mystic " character.

“ The first time I used the gloves (…) I was analyzing continuous information coming from each tactile sensor and realized that, despite being " free ", I had a " style ", my own syntax expressed in patterns (…).

The same way, the trees as “ free ” entities generate patterns since they are systemic too.

Pattern-recognition, artificial intelligence, cliches and prejudgements belong to the same order, that's why I prefer just random picking instead of pattern recognition methodologies to generate musical materials.