Tag: Music

S_V_H Chopin Waltz Op.64,No.2 image6

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Chopin Valse three feet by 8 feet in length.  That swirling pink line is the tie for this music.   Usually a tie is just a curved line, but that would be boring and that would be sheet music. This is not that, instead it is an attempt to create art from a fairly straight forward organization work sheet.  Think of these works in similar terms as the paintings of quarries by Cezanne or Van Gogh.  The personnel thought is that both of these artist did not see a quarry as the art but the contrast of shapes and colors as the art.  Here you see the same, shape and colors that display the flow of a Chopin  musical work. Simple.

Not sure that the round notation will last; for they seem too easy and predictable.   See it this way, there is Turner, and there is Rembrandt and there is what this art is today.  Tomorrow there will still be Turner and Rembrandt, as is,  but this art will be somewhere else: the slow and methodical evolution of an awakening thought. That is the unique opportunity provided to living artists.

Scott Von Holzen

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S_V_H Chopin Valse Op.64,No.2 image5

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A Chopin Waltz 36 inches by 8 feet.  There was concerned that the flow of this notation would leave large areas of the canvas empty, which has not happen.  The most interesting part of this drawing is the upper lines of the musical tie although they are questionable today.  Also of concern is that the circles for the notes would have been a better balance if larger.

The musical tie took up much of the time last night because it is frustrating and demanding (expected ) to find ways to give a simple curve of a musical line personality.  The hope it is not been over done.  How the use of color is handled will decide if  this tie actually ties this work together.  There will be efforts focused on strengthening the notation heads with the use of color to compensate of their size.

There have been a number of personnel issues that have taken the attention away from the art.  Life has the option to interfere at will with the art, and lately it has.  This is part of the test of endurance and belief in oneself.  Still enduring and believing are not enough,  the talent and the vision must be there to have a chance.   More work needs to be done, and the chill of January and now February in Wisconsin is having its effect. Momentum lost will be found in the music.  Maybe not tonight, but it has been there in the past and there is no doubt that it is still there.  The art and the there…….. the quest … There is the Art.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Chopin Valse Op.62, No.2 image4

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A Chopin Waltz.  Over the years the importance of  a strong and landscape type background has been developing. Lately the effort place on the background has increased to where it is now considered a major part of the music and not just there to add contrast, or interest to the notation.  The background has value that almost nears that of the notation.  Sure, this art is about the depiction of the flow of a particular piece of music, that is  enhanced to a far greater degree today by the active participation of the background.

Part of that particiation of the background is to facilitate  and enhance the positioning of the notation.  That is what is seen here, but what was discovered last night was that the spacing math was wrong from the start of this work.  That was corrected and the thought was to let the correction stand with the previous effort and not to paint over the mistake.  An error was made, and things have been now adjusted. This work is finally going to move forward tonight with a better balance, and strangely, a small added interest.

Scott Von Holzen