Painting, when thought of as great art, has the same character as great music. Harmony, tones, notes, chords, slurs, hard edges, lost edges, soft edges. Orchestral colour, melody line, texture, transparency, palimpsest, rhythm, percussion… each of these concepts has to become our friend, our muse.
If I may illustrate… imagine two snooker balls on a green [...]
Archive for January, 2005
Chords of colour.
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Visual music
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Much of music is an up and down progression along a scale, something
like a xylophone or a pan flute, both of which leave me irritated and
dissatisfied. The beauty of music lies in its expressive range:
harmonies, tempi, breadth and force. Even the piano, which is no more
than a long ladder of notes, is capable of the [...]
