Sebastien Roux Inevitable Music #1

Future Audio Graphics is pleased to announce Inevitable Music #1: Variations on Sol LeWitts Wall Drawing #260, composer Sebastien Roux's investigation of Sol LeWitts Wall Drawing #260, with a commissioned essay from artist and composer, Seth Cluett and featuring the work of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Inevitable Music #1 is the first collection in a series of compositions from Roux dedicated to the conceptual processes of LeWitts seminal wall drawings, which LeWitt began to produce in the late 1960s. Inevitable Music #1 is a collection of sonic translations of Sol LeWitts WD #260, employing a group of discrete digital and analog sounds (sustained/pulsed sine tone, sawtooth wave, voice, etc.) that each correspond to one of 20 shapes used in creating LeWitts instructional wall drawing. Once assigned, these discrete sounds combine to create elegant and rigorous compositions that encourage the listener to reconsider LeWitts notion that "the idea becomes a machine that makes the art."1 As a further nod to the instructional nature of LeWitts practice, each variation is preceded by a female voice that announces the particular combination of sounds used to create the composition.