Sandbox Percussion’s ‘Canto Ostinato’ is a 75+ minute, evolving, audio-responsive
@touchdesigner composition created by
@candystations and
@louiselessel . It is an homage to the visual music canon, honoring the revolving, open structure of Simeon ten Holt’s singular work through light, shadow, and instrumental architecture.
Canto Ostinato radiates warmth, spaciousness and luminosity. Built on chiming pulses and expansive harmonic shifts, the graphic score braids freedom within an undulating grid, inviting each performer’s interpretation within a shared framework and collective meditation.
The visual system unfolds in a cyclical arc, expanding and contracting over time through phases of density and minimalism, symmetry and unhinge through repetition, variation, and evolution over duration.
The graphic universe is drawn directly from the instruments themselves: the sol of the mallet, the sweep of the marimba, the beams of bars and resonant surfaces, transforming them into living graphic notation.
Performers’ shadows and audio-responsive light are integral to the composition, alternating and evolving alongside the sound.
Canto Ostinato premiered at Lincoln Center in June 2025 for
@runningamoc and will tour in 2026.
We look forward to sharing it with the world.
Photos by
@dredreisme and Lawrence Sumulong.
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Deborah Johnson,
@candystations
Louise Lessél,
@louiselessel
Sandbox Percussion,
@sandbox_percussion