For nearly thirty years I have worked with a single mathematical object. The images began as light-box photographs and large-format prints in the 1990s. What came later, and what still holds my attention, is that the numbers producing the colour also produce music. The audio is not a soundtrack laid over the image — it is the same iteration data heard rather than seen.
This site presents that work, and the tools that make it.
Software for exploring the Mandelbrot set and listening to it.
Zoom anywhere on the boundary, and the same escape values that colour the image drive a loudness palette — a set of instruments, each with its own key, scale, octave and loudness curve, that you build yourself. Scanning across a region plays it. Colour and sound are edited side by side, in real time, and the whole system is designed to be used by ear as readily as by eye.
A selection of images from the practice, from the earliest prints to recent renderings.
Prints are made to order. You choose the region of the set, the palette, the size and the paper, and the file is rendered specifically for that print — each one is unique to its buyer.
Larger commissions — series for an exhibition, site-specific works, installations — are arranged individually.
Robert Uomini lives and works in southwestern France.