Collaborations

During the first lockdown I had the opportunity to explore the boundaries between visual art and music through a series of ‘conversations’ with artist Paul McMordie’s alter ego then man made a machine. A ‘call and response’ arrangement was established through which I shared images for Paul to respond to musically and Paul provided compositions for me to respond to with video. These are what emerged.

Time Six

Chromainterfacial Tension

The work created for the Borders, Boundaries and Bridges at R-Space Gallery exhibition was an attempt to visually and sonically represent the inevitable tension that can manifest between two separate art forms that seek to compliment one another, to become a complete outcome. Wet on Wet painting used in Steiner school kindergartens to explore the properties of colour was videoed and used to create a stimulus for sonic response.  By incorporating the surface tension of water in the making of a painting the material quality of pigment being released on the surface took precedence. 
The score itself  was spontaneously composed. Using 4 syths controlled via a Multiac Guitar. Drawing on influences from Sufi devotional music and the now famous tintinnabulism as pioneered by Avro Pärt. The result, a drone note accompanied by  several long  ostinato patterns, work their way through the piece in an oblique motion, giving rise to the tension heard and empathising with the visuals.