Orlando Leibovitz: Painter plus innovative media
Photo by Mary MacIntyre
Ever wanted to make your painting sing? How can a computer merge music and and image? recently I had the good fortune to meet with Mr. Orlando Leibovitz in his Santa Fe studio. Although many paintings filled his house, in his studio we went directly to his computer. Within minutes he was providing me with the history of these most recent inventions and how he created a musical symbolic “language and then by working with a composer created compositions that corealted to his musical paintings. The process and compilation combines a multi-layered complexity. Afterall any image on a computer often proves challenging. Adding original sounds casts new dimensions to the work.
The best way to understand the above introduction is to visit his site: www.orlandoleibovitz.com
You won’t see a lot of words, but do eeeenlarge the painitings, and of course listen to them too.
From his site:
About the Musical Language
The objects in this series are simultaneously paintings and musical manuscripts. The shapes and colors comprise a rudimentary musical language.
There are three different symbols in each painting. Each symbol is a musical note. The shape designates a different volume. The size of the symbol indicates a whole, half, quarter, or eighth note. The color designates pitch. The melody in each painting is composed by chance. A role of the dice or a turn of a card determines the music. Paul William Simons provided additional harmony and performed the work.
All paintings are acrylic on canvas or linen. The sizes range from 40” by 30” to 60” by 96”.
And then there are earlier masterpieces:
About the Accordion Keyboards
These paintings combine color and music, sound, and light. The accordion series includes twelve paintings, each a different color on the color wheel. When displayed together in appropriate sequence, the paintings constitute a color map.
You see, the site has few words. They don’t convey the beauty, inspiration, and creative thinking that dynamically voices the artist’s vision via the image. Please go visit his site.
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