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The specific drawing I was thinking about was the 41st in the series. It is composed of twelve vertical bars or strips of alternating metallic silver and fluorescent orange lines. All the intervals of spacing are counted on the grid. Four squares of space horizontally between each of the twelve drawn strips. The alternating silver and orange lines are either two or four squares. The entire layout has the bilateral symmetry of a palindrome (2 4 4 2 4 2 2 4 2 4 4 2). When I was making the drawing I was imagining it as sheet music. The twelve vertical strips represented twelve individual instruments (they could be seen as twelve players in a live context or twelve tracks in the context of a studio recording). My idea was that the top of the drawing represented the beginning (all starting with silver) and then would move down the page toward the bottom with all ending on orange.
Once I realized the potential of actually being able to use this drawing as a musical score, the project started to fall into place. Grove and Ceremony were very receptive to the idea, so I started to cast a wide net among friends that either were musicians or made sound-based art. The parameters for the project were simple: use this drawing as a stimulus for an audio interpretation. There are no right or wrong interpretations. It can be as literal or as impressionistic as you like. The one creative constraint was that it had to be two minutes or shorter.
The Grove and Ceremony print edition with complimentary audio compilation went online in November of 2014. Soon after I decided to expand the compilation to include more friends. This new, extended version has five additional tracks and has been self-published in an edition of 300 CDs.
On Sunday, July 19th, 2015, GRIDSPACE in Crown Heights, Brooklyn hosted the release party for the compilation and new silkscreen print edition based on the original drawing. It was (thus far) the hottest day of the year in New York City, but despite the heat blitz, it was a festive celebration with live sets of music from BnDL, Kai Riedl, Gillespie Brothers, and Matthew McGee Hunter.
AZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BKLN, NY. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2015
The specific drawing I was thinking about was the 41st in the series. It is composed of twelve vertical bars or strips of alternating metallic silver and fluorescent orange lines. All the intervals of spacing are counted on the grid. Four squares of space horizontally between each of the twelve drawn strips. The alternating silver and orange lines are either two or four squares. The entire layout has the bilateral symmetry of a palindrome (2 4 4 2 4 2 2 4 2 4 4 2). When I was making the drawing I was imagining it as sheet music. The twelve vertical strips represented twelve individual instruments (they could be seen as twelve players in a live context or twelve tracks in the context of a studio recording). My idea was that the top of the drawing represented the beginning (all starting with silver) and then would move down the page toward the bottom with all ending on orange.
Once I realized the potential of actually being able to use this drawing as a musical score, the project started to fall into place. Grove and Ceremony were very receptive to the idea, so I started to cast a wide net among friends that either were musicians or made sound-based art. The parameters for the project were simple: use this drawing as a stimulus for an audio interpretation. There are no right or wrong interpretations. It can be as literal or as impressionistic as you like. The one creative constraint was that it had to be two minutes or shorter.
The Grove and Ceremony print edition with complimentary audio compilation went online in November of 2014. Soon after I decided to expand the compilation to include more friends. This new, extended version has five additional tracks and has been self-published in an edition of 300 CDs.
On Sunday, July 19th, 2015, GRIDSPACE in Crown Heights, Brooklyn hosted the release party for the compilation and new silkscreen print edition based on the original drawing. It was (thus far) the hottest day of the year in New York City, but despite the heat blitz, it was a festive celebration with live sets of music from BnDL, Kai Riedl, Gillespie Brothers, and Matthew McGee Hunter.
AZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BKLN, NY. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2015
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