Archive | Music

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017

Notes:
Much can be said of beautiful harmonies, but there is also a place in music for the dischord, the feedback, the reverb, the chunks of rawness strewn about from a creative process that values expression above technical prowess. Even the ugly shorepound is beautiful to the bodysurfers and boogie boarders.

This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.

This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017

Notes:
I painted this one during a Johnny Cash tribute set, while the painting (and occasionally my big fat head was projected on to a 30 foot screen behind the band). Slightly awkward, but hopefully a fun visual to compliment the music. Thinking of Johnny Cash and the music he produced, it got me thinking of vinyl records. Like a drop in a pool of still water, the rings emanating outward from that single point. (I know it’s a spiral really, but song by song with the little spaces between em, they’re circles alright?)

Those albums played the world over, resonating with listeners from all walks of life, reveal the power of music to speak to our souls.

Thank you John. Thank you.

This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.

This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18″ x 36″
Year: 2017

Notes:
Stringed instruments often contain a dizzying array of mathemetical geometries; the length and/or thickness of strings, the placement of frets, the bodies themselves. All of it designed to vibrate those strings at the right frequencies to produce harmonic sounds. But what is vibration, if not a wave? Reduce a wave to its mathematical base and you have a simple sine wave, an oscillation between two points at a regular frequency.

This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.

This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18″ x 36″
Year: 2017

Notes:
Sound upon sound, wave upon wave, a simple strum of a stringed instrument produces something that combines to a beautiful note. Sound is a wave after all, watch what happens when multiple waves collide, the result is usually something far beyond the sum of the parts. A synergy of moving water, a liquid chord in the key of H2O.

This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.

This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017

Notes:
Many instruments have within their design a method of capturing, redirecting, focusing, and amplifying the otherwise ordinary sounds produced by whichever vibrating element they employ. When those vibrations bounce off chambers, refract around curving elements, they grow to a beautiful pitch, much like a wave as it approaches shallow water. Certain underwater topographies produce the most beautiful apparitions of moving water imaginable.

This painting is another reminder that every song has its roots in water.

This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water, through a set of shared geometric structures.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36″ x 36″
Year: 2017

Notes:
Percussion, it’s the foundation of music. It’s been here all along, discernible all around and within us, from water’s rhythmic waves to our own heartbeats pumping our saltwater life force through our bodies. From the basic repetition emerges increasing complexities, and with a human intellect at the helm becomes the very structure upon which song is built.

This painting is a reminder that every song has its roots in water.

This series was created live during the Redwood Coast Music Festival inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The overall concept of the series was to explore the connections between music and water.