Mountains revisited: theory in field practice

Gallery Visit Report: A Sudden Switch

A visit to the local gallery was an interesting refreshment on Wednesday afternoon when we had the opportunity to see the world of diverse artists and their representations. There were many works in which one could get lost for a moment; free yourself from your body and dive deeper, peek into a painting or work.
Lindovsky’s On the Way captures something like a grid space with gentle pencil strokes, namely the floor, on which the image of a man pulls a giant burden, behind which a giant cloud of dust floats. Uninteresting at first glance, exciting at second. The simplicity of the painting and at the same time a certain complexity that arose in my head after a deeper examination left me with an idea for my project, which I decided to change at the last minute.
I would like to move from time and mountains to the aesthetics of the sound of mountains and I would like to create the same, just in audio form – to record something as simple as the whistling of the wind through the leaves, the random sounds of the forest or best to find a place in the mountains where I could capture the sound of the mountains in their purest form without the noise of branches, wind, etc. and from such a seemingly simple thing to create a song, a composition that will mean much more to the listeners than just random recordings of nature. For example, try to find a certain rhythm in the flow of a tiny stream of mountain water, from which I could use my laptop and production program to compose something symbolic – the rhythm of mountain language. All the time I would like to focus on that dichotomy of simplicity vs. complexity – turning a simple sound into a more complex musical element, which in the process would go through a backwarding, cutting into small chunks/beats, echo, reverberation, slowing down or, conversely, accelerating. We will see where this new direction of mine will go and how willing the mountain that will provide me with material for production will be.


One response to “Gallery Visit Report: A Sudden Switch”

  1. Great shift!

    I think that working with the “demands” of the space/place and compositional elements is something utterly fascinating.

    I am looking forward to seeing the list of resources for this one and, most importantly, the final musical composition!

    It is interesting how the “grid” syntactic pattern, you have mentioned might correspond to arrangement of sounds in space and time and I’d like to see those paintings referenced in your final project as well.

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