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Category Archives: Music Theory
Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note
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
Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading
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
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Indeterminacy, Some Project Notes
John Cage’s Sonata and Interludes for Prepared Piano Visual Sound (Pink Sedum) for Prepared Pasta Maker
New Departures in Eco Printing – Impressures Negative Realities and Graphic Notation
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
Inch of the Day 3 September 2015: Inchie Energy, Inchie Music
Here’s another example of my ongoing explorations with a bleach pen. Two more inchies. These were drawn onto inkjet prints, not fabric. I ironed these. The heat singed the bleach marks. And some images dropped into my mind, as I … Continue reading
Inch of the Day 29 August 2015: Ripples
Encaustic and acrylic paint on paper. Arrows. An arrow is a symbol for a force. The direction of a force. Not a sign. A ripple would be the sign of a force. A ripple might form the shape of an arrow, of course. Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Art Journal, Encaustic Art, Music, Music Theory
Tagged Allotment, encaustic, harmony, melody, metre, music theory, notation, Philip Glass, Rhythm, symbols, texture, tonality
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Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 