Category: Modern

Ev’ry time left middle section.  The circles represent 8th notes.  The white hieroglyphic lines stands for a musical tie. Interesting, there was going to be a comment about all the notation being shown in a rough draft ,  when a thought came to mind.   The notation consistently floats above the base.  There is only one canvas that comes to mind, The Very Thought of you,  where a couple of the notes are buried in the base.  Their covering up had nothing to do with what the thinking is now: that just happened.  The current thought is would it not be nice to find a technique to cover up the notes which makes them appear to move in and out of the base? It is not simple, the thought is Rothko and his floating rectangles.   The thought is, do not mess with the flow of the music;  the thought is what do you have to loose, and the thought is create something that comes from the music but does not appear as a gimmick.  The final thought is, this idea will probably take time and effort that will be more of an evolution then a break through.

Scott Von Holzen

Ev’ry time, the notes all placed across the canvas.   This was a challenge this time to get all the notation to fit.  You find a phrase of music that has potential. Then you count notes, accidentals, slurs and ties.   Then, you divide that into the length of canvas, hopefully a canvas that is available. That is why a lot of this music is composed of multiple panels.  The available inches per note gives a good idea of the size of note that will fit.   A size is picked and then it is tested to see if  the notation will fit with space between.  Not just across, but what height of canvas will be needed becomes the decisive test:  where do all the notes fall?  Many of these works include words and they to must be worked in there proper placement, which with this canvas caused problems.  The spacing, not enough or too much left,  was not correct and the notes where entirely removed.   A number of other times multiple notes where removed because the text would not fit, which added to further progress delays.  Things are fine now, with an interesting point, that twice the entire notation was moved to different positions from the original plan.  Each work does this.  They are smart and demanding which escalates quickly, and there is nothing that can be done except find the way,  their way.

Scott Von Holzen

Ev’ry time we say goodbye, close up of the finished base.  The base: the background, the stuff that fills the voids between the notes, has, received more attention that grows in importance. This means that the emphasis, only of the notes, that originally started this journey has widen out.  Actually, with the original music work,  the notes where put down across an unfinished self-portrait, creating two points of interest.  This was a one time idea that quickly faded to backgrounds that where painted to accent the notes.  Increasing, over time, the focus changed to where the background was finished only when it could stand on its own, without the notes.  Today, the background stands as an abstraction and because of Van Gogh’s influence, the base is seen as a landscape or a portrait, and the notes have become points of interest, that all together celebrate a most wonderful, which is music.

Scott Von Holzen