For those who would like to know more about the blogger (me)………

I am a big part of my paintings……so look for me there.                                                                                       I paint ideas. All of my abstract paintings express a particular idea that wants to be released into a world of other ideas.

Sometimes I paint music.   I don’t paint to music.  I do like to hear music playing while I paint but that would  be listening to music as a background enjoyment.  Painting music is different.  It is not painting to the beat and rhythm of sounds (music). It is painting the sounds of  music appearing in my mind as visual shapes, colors and textures floating in their own individual layers.  The music I see is what I paint.

IS THIS AS WIERD AS IT SOUNDS? PROBABLY, BUT THERE ARE EXPLANATIONS. I have the gift of Synesthesia (a combination of senses) that allows me to see the music I hear and hear music in what see.

For years I have realized that my interest and appreciation of music was way out of the norm in far too many ways. I have hardly any music memory. Music flows through my consciousness as a nowness experience.

I have always wanted to hold on to melodies, freeze them in time———appreciate their existence and look at their beauty——— before they are whisked away to another dimension.

With much experimentation, patience and inspiration I have come up with my own way of presenting music as a visual art. Here is one example.

Symphony Snippet (Stravinsky)

mixed media on film

image size 8″ x 11″

framed size 22″ x 18″

© Jane Denison 2011

For those who would like to know more about the blogger (me)………

I am a big part of my painting. I paint ideas. All of my abstract paintings express a partcular  idea that wants to be released into a world of other ideas.

Sometimes I paint music.   I don’t paint to music.  I do like to hear music playing while I paint but that would  be listening to music as a background enjoyment.  Painting music is different.  It is not painting to the beat and rhythm of sounds (music). It is painting the sounds of  music appearing in my mind as visual shapes, colors and textures floating in their own individual layers.  The music I see is what I paint.

IS THIS AS WIERD AS IT SOUNDS? PROBABLY, BUT THERE ARE EXPLANATIONS. I have the gift of Synesthesia (a combination of senses) that allows me to see the music I hear and hear music in what see.

For years I have realized that my interest and appreciation of music was way out of the norm in far too many ways. I have hardly any music memory. Music flows through my consciousness as a nowness experience.

I have always wanted to hold on to melodies, freeze them in time———appreciate their existence and look at their beauty——— before they are whisked away to another dimension.

With much experimentation, patience and inspiration I have come up with my own way of presenting music as a visual art. Here is one example.

Others are in the Three Dimensional Abstract Gallery.

Symphony Snippet (Stravinsky)
mixed media on film
image size 8″ x 11″
framed size 22″ x 18″

© Jane Denison 2011

A CLEARER VIEW OF SYMPHONY SNIPPETS

THERE IS SPACE BETWEEN the layers of sound in a symphony. This layering is what I have tried to capture in my Synesthetic art.

Without layering the shapes and colors of sound would mix into one mess of a shape when you see them.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE LAYERS OF SOUND represented in the Snippets when using a frontal shot from the camera. Seeing the actual painting is the best way to understand what I mean.

HERE ARE TWO ANGLED SHOTS from one of Copeland’s symphonies and one of Stravinsky’s showing the actual depth of the paintings.

WITH THIS TECHNIQUE the base and melody can now maintain their own level of importance in the visual as they do in the audible.