Compositions with painting: Nostos, Ljubljana (1st two pictures), Portrait of Dora P. (2nd two pictures), The Blue Giraffe, Barcelona (pictures bellow), Just Conductor, Darmstadt (pictures at the bottom)
A series of compositions for various combination of instruments + video and electronics. Videos featuring live painting and performance. The emphasis is on researching the relationship between visual art and music through electronic music software (Max). The algorithms are sensitive to visual cues (colour and movement) and react to the video itself – resulting in a specific soundscape.
The musicians usually need to react to the video in some way, emphasizing the connection between sound and color. The pieces feature various numbers of instruments, ranging from solos (Barcelona, bass clarinet, video, and electronics) to symphony orchestras (Portrait of Dora P.).
The other idea is to explore the meaning of the ‘final product’ in Art in general, as well as its process of creation. With this project, the final product (e.g. painting) is less important than the process of its creation. Behind every piece of Art, the process of creation is more important than its final representation. With Sound Art, I wish to point out this idea.
The beginnings of this research were my experimenting only with video and electronics:
Used sounds (Secondary colors are a sound combination of appropriate primary colors):
Blue – Bassoon long low pitch notes + Kalimba + humming (low pitch)
Yellow – Playing on glass + fast and high register piano
Red – Singing without words with full voice, aggressive
White – White noise
Black – Guitar chords
Photos of first paintings
Photo during recording Sound painting performance 1 – Portrait: see virtual exhibition
Sound Paintings of colors:
The beginning of this project started while I was writing my composition thesis, opera Nothing. Almost: Project of transforming pictures/videos/paintings into audio. Short insert from opera Nothing. Almost where I started to work on a MaxMSP patch sensible to color changing with a motive of a tree:
