Part of the [Verse](https://www.verse.works) exhibition [Imperfections](https://verse.works/exhibitions/fugaatientas-imperfections)

Fuga a Tientas on Verse, 2023, explores how its form of writing, namely coding, can be conceived as a form of sketching, or how unexpected shapes and colours emerge from simple geometric operations when imperfect repetition is celebrated. The artworks are fully composed by horizontal lines and simple shapes travelling through imperfect flow fields, offering a characteristically bright and cheerful aesthetic that is homage to both Erik Satie and Enric Miralless intellectual legacies. Fuga a Tientas is the coming-of-age of the Enfantines (fxhash, 2022) algorithm, still childlike but now a more sophisticated and yet imperfect exploration of form and counterform, sound and colour.


Exhibition

to allow even to desire that, after that earliest point where the pen touches the 
paper, something unfathomed emerges, something unexpected

One of Erik Saties infrequent excursions into chamber music, the *Fugue  ttons* (1913) is 
contemporary to his humorous piano compositions, and created in a similar spirit. *Fugue  
ttons* is a satirical reinvention of Baroque musical forms, enhanced by Saties characteristic witty 
titles and performance directions. A repetitive, childlike theme, a loosely woven fugue initiated by 
the piano with silly but convenient navet, and yet a complex and significant musical piece.

Curiously, Spanish architect Enric Miralles used the title *Fuga a tientas* (the Spanish translation of 
Erik Saties title) in 1987, for the second volume of his doctoral dissertation, a text that was 
deemed unreadable by the thesis panel. Miralles essay narrates how sketching can be seen as a 
form of writing, a creative act that happens when thinking moves forward through interruptions, 
when it stops at its beginnings, when it is produced by repetition. 

This *Fuga a Tientas* on Verse, 2023, explores how its form of writing, namely coding, can 
likewise be conceived as a form of sketching, or how unexpected shapes and colours emerge 
from simple geometric operations when imperfect repetition is celebrated. The artworks are fully 
composed by horizontal lines and simple shapes travelling through imperfect flow fields, offering a 
characteristically bright and cheerful aesthetic that is homage to both Erik Satie and Enric 
Miralless intellectual legacies. *Fuga a Tientas* is the coming-of-age of the Enfantines (fxhash, 
2022) algorithm, still childlike but now a more sophisticated and yet imperfect exploration of form 
and counterform, sound and colour.

form emerges at the air of its flight, it is not pursued, nor composed, nor 
constructed

With two modes that wont produce the same outputs, *Fuga a tientas* is best experienced twice. 
In music mode, the code uses Saties fugue as a way of taming randomness, the sounds affecting 
the colours and intensities of the triangles. This is the last stop of the journey, gazing into 
unexplored lands.

Large de Vue

*Fuga a tientas* is part of the group exhibition *Imperfections*.