Category Archives: Music Theory

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

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

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

Inch of the Day 3 September 2015: Inchie Energy, Inchie Music

Posted on September 3, 2015 by AnnIsikArts

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 →

Posted in Art, Art Journal, Creativity, Drawing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Music, Music Theory, Singing Sacred, Stitch | Tagged Bleach Pen Drawing, Early Music Notation, Eco Printing, Inchie | Leave a comment

Inch of the Day 29 August 2015: Ripples

Posted on August 29, 2015 by AnnIsikArts

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 →