Project details
Wolfgang A. Mozart developed a musical unit from a large number of short, individual melodies. In this random composition game, each face of the dice represents a short melody. By throwing the dice a number of times, the visitor is able to randomly “compose” a harmonious, coherent piece of music.
Technology: two special tables recognize melodies determined by the dice games being played on their surfaces by visitors: there are over 1.2 million possible melodies. A projection shows the visitors what they have “composed”: both sound and image appear in real time.
The Austrian Museum Award, presented by the Ministry of Education, goes to Haus der Musik in 2002. The jury commended in particular the “overall concept of the house” as having “a high educational value” and the presentation as being “didactically prepared to the most up-to-date standards” with new media being used in exemplary fashion. checkpointmedia is not only located in the Haus der Musik but also cooperates on various installations (e.g. Mozart’s “Waltz Dice Game”, the large projection of the New Year’s Day Concert 2002 in the Vienna Philharmonic Museum).
