Tag: Painting and Music
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How to Kill Your Muse
An eventful summer between painting, tax troubles, SEO, AI and book cover design. Somewhere in between, my muse took a few shots – but fortunately, she seems rather hard to kill.
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Visual Response to “The Last Rag” by Soundeagle
Can you translate the “ragged time” of a contemporary piano piece into a visual language? Following a casual comment on a previous article, I took on the challenge of graphically interpreting soundeagle’s composition. Moving away from traditional calligraphy, I chose to take the word “rag” literally—creating an aesthetic of use where soft, faded layers of…
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Lang Lang in Vienna and Other Music Anecdotes
What happens when you go skinny-dipping in a Carinthian stream with jazz legend Don Cherry, or watch Friedrich Gulda attack an amplified clavichord with a knife and fork? This personal reflection looks back on a golden era of musical rebellion in 1970s Austria and offers some insights into the world of classical music, the avant-garde,…
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Nothingness in Color
Nothingness in Color continues the thought experiment that began with the journey to the Zen master—evolving beyond monochrome, embracing color, and preserving the essence of minimalism
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The Gift of the Green Snake
“The Gift of the Green Snake” might sound like clickbait, but it carries a ring of truth. In this post, I share a few new drawings inspired by a recent Wu Opera performance I attended in Vienna. The show was a revelation that brought back memories from forty years ago, when I lived at the…
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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
Magic Sea Opera: Even if the idea that I would like to present today might sound unrealistic or at least utopian at first, I would by no means see it as unfeasible. Namely, the idea of an opera as a total work of art, in which the visual part is the actor
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Falco & the Vienna Music Scene of the 1970s
A personal account of Vienna’s 1970s underground music scene, the Bona Mente art studio, and its connection to Falco and other rising stars.
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New Directions: Homage to Hans Hartung and Wagner’s Ring
New paintings paying tribute to Hans Hartung and reflecting on Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.”
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Landscapes by the Water and in the Mountains
Two landscape studies inspired by music, volcanic eruptions in the news, and mountain monasteries.
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Triptych: Theme and Variations
An abstract triptych inspired by classical music, blending calligraphy principles with painterly expression.
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Burning Down the Snow: A Surrealist Painting
A surrealist painting born from Schubert’s “Winterreise” and Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House” — blending photorealism and abstraction.
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Sketches from the Peking Opera
Charcoal sketches of Peking Opera performances made in Beijing in 1979, mounted in a traditional Chinese album.