Tag: Painting and Music
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Meditations on a Single Note
What can a single musical note teach us about attention? Beginning with the sound of a bell in a Peace Stupa, this is a personal meditation on listening, silence, creativity – and the worlds that can open when we pay attention to seemingly insignificant things.
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How to Kill Your Muse
A summer of painting, apricot picking, tax paperwork and website repairs. New variations on The Last Rag and four poetry-book cover drafts bring me back to the work that matters most.
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Visual Response to “The Last Rag” by Soundeagle
A piano piece becomes an experiment with twelve calligraphic units, faded colour and broken rhythm. Three versions trace my visual response to SoundEagle’s The Last Rag.
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Lang Lang in Vienna and Other Music Anecdotes
An afternoon with Lang Lang in Vienna brings back memories of Don Cherry, Friedrich Gulda, cheap concert tickets and the music that accompanied my early years as a painter.
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Nothingness in Color
Nothingness in Color continues my imagined journey to the Zen master. On black paper, scattered colour and calligraphic marks explore rhythm, open space and the search for an unaffected artistic voice.
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The Gift of the Green Snake
A Wu Opera performance in Vienna brings back memories of sketching Peking Opera in Beijing. A small gift from the performer playing the Green Snake leads to new studies of movement, light and the stage.
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Can We Hear a Painting?
Can music be translated into painting? An exploration of rhythm, silence and sound through abstract art inspired by Wagner, Bruckner, Bach, Shakuhachi, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno.
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The Magic Sea
An opera in which painted forms, light and space carry the story. The Magic Sea follows a visual sequence from darkness to luminous openness, while leaving room for the project to change.
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Falco & the Vienna Music Scene of the 1970s
Between 1975 and 1978, my Vienna studio became an artists’ club and a rehearsal space. Memories of Bona Mente, Falco and the Stojkas sit alongside paintings from those years—and the people I lost.
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New Directions: Homage to Hans Hartung and Wagner’s Ring
A pause in my Covid-19 series leads towards a tribute to Hans Hartung and paintings shaped by the final scene of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.
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Landscapes by the Water and in the Mountains
A quiet landscape by the water and a mountain monastery: two paintings shaped by music, a visit to Cyprus and the news I was following in 2021.
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Triptych: Theme and Variations
Three abstract paintings develop a theme through changing colour, movement and rhythm, with music as a companion to the painting process.
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Burning Down the Snow: A Surrealist Painting
A phrase, a song and an uncertain landscape: how Burning Down the Snow brings surrealist associations into an abstract painting.
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Sketches from the Peking Opera
During my studies in Beijing, I often went to the nearby opera house. These charcoal sketches recall the performers—and evenings among an audience eating sunflower seeds.