At the bottom of this post are 4 paintings I created. In the video, the Ebb and Flow ensemble looks at ONE painting and improvises music. Watch the video, guess which one and vote in the poll.
I loved it! Thanks for putting music, dance and painting together. It reminds me of some Chinese classical music that represents babbling brooks, mist covered mountains or galloping horses. The imagery is wonderful.
The artwork during the song does not distract from the song. It improves the song. Viewing the musicians distracts from the song.
Viewing the dancers is interesting, but too weird to associate their movements back to the art.
I like the link between music and dance, and I like the link between art and music, but the link from art to music to dance is too far to connect the dance back to the art. didn’t see any connection.
It was difficult to pay attention to the spoken introduction and read the words overlayed at the bottom of the video at the same time. Both were trying to communicate a somewhat complicated experiment, but differently, and it got confusing.
Showing all of the different art pieces through the video was confusing. Was the art shown to the musicians changing or was it one piece? I would have liked to have seen the musicians improvise to all four pieces, like movements in an art symphony. I liked the motion panning over the art – it created movement that could be interpreted as having impact on the music/dance.
Here is what I think would be interesting to see:
Segment the effort into 4 themed movements (think Vivaldi four seasons). Don’t show the musicians playing. Only show a motion pan over the art while listening to the music. If you must have dance (I wouldn’t bother), then I would have the dancers dance in front of a green screen so that you can pull them out and have the dance overlayed on top of the motion panning art – so that the visual is the art in motion with interpretive dance, and the audio is the music.
I love this idea of combining dance and music with the visual art. It didn’t matter to me which piece of art the dancers were dancing to. I was intrigued with the interplay of the three art forms. Great idea! This could work well in a gallery or museum.
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The dancers with their shadows, precision, and coloring helped guide my decision.
I loved it! Thanks for putting music, dance and painting together. It reminds me of some Chinese classical music that represents babbling brooks, mist covered mountains or galloping horses. The imagery is wonderful.
The artwork during the song does not distract from the song. It improves the song. Viewing the musicians distracts from the song.
Viewing the dancers is interesting, but too weird to associate their movements back to the art.
I like the link between music and dance, and I like the link between art and music, but the link from art to music to dance is too far to connect the dance back to the art. didn’t see any connection.
It was difficult to pay attention to the spoken introduction and read the words overlayed at the bottom of the video at the same time. Both were trying to communicate a somewhat complicated experiment, but differently, and it got confusing.
Showing all of the different art pieces through the video was confusing. Was the art shown to the musicians changing or was it one piece? I would have liked to have seen the musicians improvise to all four pieces, like movements in an art symphony. I liked the motion panning over the art – it created movement that could be interpreted as having impact on the music/dance.
Here is what I think would be interesting to see:
Segment the effort into 4 themed movements (think Vivaldi four seasons). Don’t show the musicians playing. Only show a motion pan over the art while listening to the music. If you must have dance (I wouldn’t bother), then I would have the dancers dance in front of a green screen so that you can pull them out and have the dance overlayed on top of the motion panning art – so that the visual is the art in motion with interpretive dance, and the audio is the music.
I love this idea of combining dance and music with the visual art. It didn’t matter to me which piece of art the dancers were dancing to. I was intrigued with the interplay of the three art forms. Great idea! This could work well in a gallery or museum.
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