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Christine Kerr's avatar

This reminds me of the music of the monolith in the "Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra "(2001: A Space Odyssey) by Gyorgy Ligeti. If you look at the musical score, it shows the fluctuating patterns of dense and spare clusters of notation. I used to look at the music score sideways to give me a better concept of the composition. Here is an article that explains it better than I can: https://www.secondinversion.org/2017/06/29/a-singers-account-of-gyorgy-ligetis-requiem/. Here is a link to the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcC6B-i28YE. It doesn't follow the typical protocol of Coral Composition and performance. You might find it inspiring or at least interesting.

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

Extremely interesting. I went on to listen to

Atmospheres (from 1961) - https://youtu.be/JWlwCRlVh7M

linked from: https://www.secondinversion.org/2017/06/19/gyorgy-ligetis-musical-odyssey/

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Roland Rodriguez's avatar

So here is this artist whose work with typographic creative surgery I've loved for a long time. And he uses the word OSTINATO. Dang, that is one of my favorite words and probably because I was trained as an architect and learned to "see" music from a structural perspective. The ostinato in Mozart's Adagio Movement from the Serenade # 10 (Gran Partita) is one I live by.

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

Thanks for writing Roland, I am sitting here listening to Serenade # 10 (Gran Partita) as I write this. Such a lovely piece.

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Celia Crane's avatar

Wow. This is a really visually engaging piece that invites exploration... For me it almost evokes the feeling of an optical illusion, where the viewer can imagine entering or climbing into the canvas from various angles, the 'hum' creating a sense of dynamic depth and movement within your repeating zigzag pattern.⚡️

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

Thanks for commenting!

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Annette Wilzig's avatar

That's a painting I could look at for a long time. It has a calmness to it as well as mystery.

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

There is a lot to look at in that painting. So many spaces and relationships constantly shifting. Moving the attention from here to there, in and out, roaming, twisting.

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Whore de Culture's avatar

That's a cool painting. And thanks for introducing me to the word "Ostinato".... I love the sound of it.

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

Based on the word obstinate "fixed and unyielding in course or purpose," obstinate implies an unreasonable persistence: adamant, determined, dogged, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, ornery, persistent, perverse, relentless, rigid, single-minded, steadfast, tenacious, tough, unshakable, willful.

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