Looking back at the last two posts on L&UL (here and here) made me think of this student project of mine from 2000, which seems to bridge those twin interests of concrete poetry and contemporary classical music. The assignment, as best as I can recall, was to turn a musician’s calendar of events into a short commercial using only type and sound. As a big Keith Jarrett fan, he was a natural choice, and I particularly liked the intensity and inventiveness of his improvised solo piano concerts for a project with such spartan constraints. (The music is from Tokyo: Part II of the Sun Bear Concerts from 1976. The concert schedule and venues are fictional.) Though it’s definitely still rough, I like how the keyframe counter’s time, normally invisible, surfaces as a grid that dictates when and where things appear onscreen. I was only able to output the keyframe counter in Monaco, so that became the typeface of choice, though its minimalism and monospatial modularity appeals to me in a piece about visualizing time.