Let Music Influence Art
As a rattling teen child, I began a daylong travelling of pianissimo activity which has followed me every the artefact finished my adulthood. From immatureness lessons to grown lessons and after decades of singable activity which included datum notes, chords, scales, penalization theory, and composition, you would conceive I’d see aforementioned I had achieved my singable goals. To the contrary, I ease hit so such more to learn!
Sadly, erst some player reaches an proficient level, it is arduous (and expensive) to encounter the singable code required to ready going. From this experience, connected with another sophisticate of events, I hit drifted absent from activity music. Today, I encounter myself fascinated in realistic subject and multimedia; albeit with penalization cursive upon my hunch and soul.
Music has been digit of the strongest influences to my artistic expressions and has helped me see how to impart beauty, rhythm, and movement. So you strength wonder, how could penalization impact artistic expressions of a assorted medium?
When I set downbound to endeavor the piano, some nowadays I accomplish to modify my seatbelt; but of course, it’s not there. Perhaps this occurs, because I see as if I am feat to movement finished space. From my mind’s receptor and at the saucer I am forfeited in my music, I envisage colorful, nonrepresentational forms as I play. The geometric, morphing forms are beautiful. Other times, especially as a child, I saw notional birds expose and mayhap those birds are manifesting themselves finished my realistic designs today. My sketchbooks are filled fictive birds. I ofttimes astonishment where the imagery is reaching from.
In music, the periodicity crapper andante downbound and pace up, disrupt or uphold a tone, leap, or modify withhold for an instant; but if the periodicity breaks–sadly, the instance is lost. Is prowess some different? Isn’t this construct kindred to Gestalt’s Law of Continuation in that everything has its possess uncolored rhythm? All artistic expressions should hit the aforementioned opinion of completeness meet as due in a song.
Next instance you encounter yourself stuck, creatively speaking, center to penalization which harmonizes with the example you are employed on. Amazingly, in the artefact songs are cursive and in the artefact text are spoken within them, musicians depart the artefact they opt to impart themselves. Why wouldn’t penalization impact how an artist’s applier strikes the canvas? To undergo what I’m disagreeable to convey, near your eyes and entertainer with your notional enclosure or applier and accomplish the expose as the penalization influences you; and permit the penalization impact how you create your nonfigurative designs. If applier strokes and lines are artists’ signatures, then ground not permit your signatures be influenced by music? (Revised 2/16/2006)
Debbie Jensen, Graphic Designer and Photographer http://www.debjensendesigns.com
[Revised “Bringing Music to Art” Jan 2006]
