BETHA SARASIN | SPIRALPROJEKT

SPIRALPROJEKT by Betha Sarasin is a generative multimedia project that dates back to 1983. Sarasin, together with musician Markus Ganz (*1961) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, Germany, developed a software in Fortran to create three-dimensional spirals. So far, she had mainly made cuts on the cube; now she wanted to achieve an orderly spatial movement for the cube, to make it fly, so to speak, and capture infinity.

In the early 1980s, however, the spiral data could not be used in real time to generate music.

In 2024, the multimedia project that Betha Sarasin and Markus Ganz thought up in 1983 was finally realized.