Category Archives: Music

Tannin and Tone and Chrome

Posted on June 27, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

I’ve just performed at the first virtual concert of the Self-Isolation Choir Summer School. It was a week learning and rehearsing – under the guidance of musical director Ben England – a selection of works from the repertoire of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Choral singing, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Monoprinting, Music, Printmaking, Singing, Singing Sacred | Tagged Ben England, Chrome Music Lab, Eco Printing, John Rutter, Kathy Hays, Patrick Hawes, Self-Isolation Choir | 6 Comments

Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note

Posted on February 17, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

When all is done and dusted (pardon the pun) I’ll blog about what Jordan Peterson’s Clean up Your Room edict has revealed and changed. (Clean up Your Room comes from Dr Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Anti-Dote to Chaos). … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Art Notes, Creativity, Inspiration, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Research, Walking | Tagged Anti-Dote to Chaos, Art Composition and Music Composition, Art Notes, Art Theory, John Cage, Jordan B Peterson, music theory | 7 Comments

Indeterminacy: The Blueberry Interlude: Cold Dyeing with Blueberry Stems

Posted on October 15, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

Dyeing needn’t be an elaborate process, experiments have shown me. Or require costly – and sometimes quite hazardous and pongy – ingredients, sophisticated equipment and a PhD in chemistry. I pruned a couple of little blueberry bushes a few weeks … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Music, Music Composition, Sonata | Tagged Cold Dyeing, Cold Dyeing with Blueberry Prunings, Indeterminacy, Interlude, Natural Dyeing, Natural Dyeing with Silk, Sonata, Sun Dyeing | 6 Comments

More Notes from a Melody Not Yet Written

Posted on October 14, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

“Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures.” (AZ Quotes) – Rabindranath Tagore, from: Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991, by Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). (AZ Quotes)

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Monoprinting, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Printmaking, Research | Tagged AZ Quotes, Cold Pressure Eco Print, Eco Print, Eco Print on Paper, Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore | 1 Comment

Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading

Posted on October 5, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Liede, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Romanticism, Singing | Tagged Casper David Friedrich, Eichendorffer, German Romanticism, Indeterminacy, John Cage, Jonas Kaufmann, Leiderkreis, Liminal State, Mondnacht, Prepared Piano, Schumann | 16 Comments

Indeterminacy, Some Project Notes

Posted on October 4, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

John Cage’s Sonata and Interludes for Prepared Piano Visual Sound (Pink Sedum) for Prepared Pasta Maker

Posted in Art, Inspiration, Music, Music Theory, Sonata | Tagged Botanical Pressure Print, Contact Print, Eco Print, John Cage, music, Pink Sedum, Prepared Pasta Machine, Prepared Piano, Sedum, Sonat and Interludes for Prepared Piano, Sonata | 8 Comments

New Departures in Eco Printing – Impressures Negative Realities and Graphic Notation

Posted on March 28, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

More eco prints on watercolour paper. The deep brown-black of the sumac is the actual leaf. It fused with the paper because I made an extra-tight sandwich of the materials and steamed it for a longer period of time in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Music, Music Theory, Printmaking | Tagged Eco Print, Eco Print on Plastic, Eco Print on Watercolour Paper, graphic notation, Madder Root Dye, Morton Feldman, Woad Dye | Leave a comment

A Christmas Carol

Posted on December 20, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” (Dickens) Whatever ‘Christmas‘ means to you, enjoy! See you in 2018 Ann

Posted in Christmas Music, Music | Tagged andrea bocelli, Christmas, Christmas Music, Kodak Theater | Leave a comment

Taking a Walk in Negative Space

Posted on November 29, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

I’m attracted to artworks damaged in the making process. When trying to figure out why, I’ve focused on the word damage. In looking at this on the left – a damaged eco collograph of some elm leaves – it came … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Music, Music Theory, Printmaking, Science, spirituality | Tagged Curved Space, Eco Collograph, Expanding Space, Ezekiel, Hesychasm, Negative Space, Noble Silence, Space Ripple, Von Daniken | 12 Comments

Passing It On: Rob Stevens

Posted on August 21, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

I’m not able to progress much of my own work to blog about in what has been a difficult and prolonged transitional period (I’ve already had to set writing and singing to one side quite a while back). I am … Continue reading →