Chorale 2011
Timber, nylon builders line, lead sinkers. In this installed work I am attempting to express in a light-hearted way the connections I feel between the ways in which I work as a visual artist and the ways in which musical language is structured, both in sound and in the visual impact of notes on a page.
The patterning of the weights which tension the strings is based on a twelve tone melody - the melody constructed (rather than composed)
using all the half tones of the scale. This melody has then been manipulated through inversion and retrogression. …