I came about a most Intriguing olive tree trunk and decided to colorize the inner qualities, this was the result. I used colours that correspond to the ten Sefirot where each colour represents an inner and outer part of the body, so it is a meditative piece as well to Jazz music.
Samples of the point technique used to music. These are meditative techniques using jam sessions for relaxation. The meditative focus is on the four elements found in Nature, and also on colours representing life force energy points in the body. May 2013
Drawing being one of the major forms of expression in visual
art utilises among others the method of using dots, the surrealist method of
“Entopic graphomania” in which dots are made at the sites of impurities on a
blank piece of paper. The music guides the direction of the dots which
eventually fill up the whole space. The dots connect and lead the eye from one
area to the next.
My art is based around drawing to music real time building
layers of drawings and photographic material in abstract art and partial
abstract art mediums.
I record vibrations sensed in music mainly using pastel as a
medium of expression.
The aim in my works is to present the fundamental themes that
evolve around the four elements found in Nature- earth, water air and fire
which are also found within man. Meditations on the images constitute the
initial exploration in the themes I research. Next I explore the relationships
between the vegetative or inanimate worlds, the animate, the soul and spirit in
the human being using specific color schemes that each have a corresponding
area in the body as well as any reference to emotive qualities. The working method includes layering abstract
drawings upon photographic materials to illustrate these points.
The integration between visual music and movement, allows
oneself to delve deeper into the inner core of the being, a self -discovery
journey as well as the relationship to the environment.
Through the creative expression of intuitive drawings, one taps
into the senses to reveal the imagination faculty, the unique creative flow
that exists from within, to nullify the senses in order to receive. Music enhances memory, thought transformations that bring about a feeling of liveliness as the emotive and
cognitive are aligned. It opens a whole new world of possibilities, that of
vitality and creative potential within and outside ourselves.
Lyrics:
João Monge
Music: Fado Miguel. Miguel Ramos
Piano: Pancho Marrodán
Voice: CAROLINA BLAVIA
EP: Fado Enllà
Ed House Made Records 2012
Visual Music
Abstract Art
In this
gentle quiet melodic song I studied the following learning situations:
Exploring
inner and outer spaces in relation to the sound.
How
shapes relate to each other with the use of colour.
Creating
a rhythmic arrangement through contrast of warm and cold colours.
Exploring
colour inter-blending.
Expressing
graphic sound properties as a sensation.
Exploring
graphic sound property in relation to the occupied space format.
Developing
the ability to sense emotions through coloured shapes.
·Recognizing sections in the music that repeat themselves.
The
use of vertical and horizontal lines to create open and closed spaces.
Process
Each graphic sound property was created to a musical tone
preceding the one before it. Various techniques were used one that of making
subtle colour changes as well as sharp colour contrasts within the same
composition. Discovering balance and shape relationships as well as movement
within each frame. The adding and subtracting of the graphic elements with accordance
to the melodic sound. The development of a mental sensitivity to the ascents
and descents in the sound, and translating this perception of the sensations to
coloured forms.
Two videos were made one focusing on the vocals and the other
on the piano after which these were overlaid to produce the final video. A
compensation had to made due to the superimposing effect thus in this final
piece the stills were not assembled in sequence order rather a new video was
made of the collections of the stills.
INTERFADO PROJECT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION Artecittà VISUALS: Arlene Rabinowitz SINGER: Carolina Blavia LYRICS: Rosa Saureu ARRANGEMENTS: Pancho Marrodán-Miquel Hortigüela PIANO: Pancho Marrodán CLASSICAL GUITAR: Miquel Hortigüela MUSIC: Agusti Garcia Images were created with the software Meta SIGCA
Methodology
The video was made by memorizing notes
and translating the sound into shapes provided by Sigca software until the
completion of the video.
The placements of the shapes were intuitively
chosen throughout the video.
Creative listening process
Following numerous listening sessions of
the song, sections were memorized and shapes were introduced to the tones. The
software provides options to manipulate the sizes of the shapes corresponding
to the sound as well as considering the special distance between the shapes in
real time and the shapes and colours then adjusted to the sound. The arrangements
of colour were dependent upon adjusted contrasts and harmonies as in the
musical piece.
The aim on the onset was to use a
technique whereby colour changes occur within the same space, and thereafter,
in different areas that the composition becomes entirely improvisatory.
It was not the goal to create definite
repetitive patterns to the sound but rather make new abstract forms along with
the music to form new integrated expression of graphic design.
A set of visuals was done specifically
for the vocals which were then overlaid on the original video. The still sets
that were collected were arranged into short videos whereby these were overlaid
and superimposed into the final piece.
The Sigca software tools aided the
following:-
-The shapes were intuitively and
improvised to the sound. Each note/tone represented by a shape and distinct
colour.
-The production of a series and sequence
of colour harmonies. The attempt to produce a given colour on the screen to
remain there until succeeded by another to correspond with the length of a note
in the music.
-Introducing repetition for the element
of time.
-Use of glow tool to enhance the shapes
with added light.
-Use of colour tool to make gradual
transformational colour changes.
-Use of pitch to match colour, direction
of shape.
-Exploring the relationships in spatial
direction and placement from each other.
-Each shape made to the tone of the
sound and is continuous to the preceding shape and form.
-Making images to the sound of different
instruments and overlaying them.
-Making an attractive colour scheme that
blends well with the sound.
-Considering the effects of intuition
and emotion from the sound and the visuals.
-Perceptual appearance has the
capability of feeling different colour sensations by adjusting the brightness/glow
of the shapes which affects the intensity of the sensations.
-Perceptual organisation through the use
of irregular geometrical areas and the figures perceived as assemblages by
nearness, similarity, colour compatibility and continuity.
Summary The visuals have the power to stimulate emotional sensations and
enhance imagination in abstract form. By correlating each sound to an abstract
shape, and adding other shapes to the music, one loses all sense of realism.
This allows for a fresh start and further increase imagination faculty as well
as creative faculties.
The abstract forms allow the mind to generate
inspiration to further creative endeavor of
