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music is painting plus time
From the Kaffe Matthews interview in Issue 235 of The Wire:
"A couple of years ago I was talking to a funder from the visual arts world ... they were suddenly realizing that electronic improvised music was speaking in the language that they spoke in—that it involved texture, density, color, grain, size and shape."
I completely agree with this, although for me personally there's a key difference between visual arts and music, which is the crucial temporal dimension: a painting "happens" all at once, whereas a piece of music (with the possible exception of something like an ambient installation piece) has a duration. So: music is painting plus time.
The same could conceivably be said of film (see Tarkofsky) although I'd argue that the most "painterly" films—the ones Matthews' criteria most usefully apply to—would be non-narrative, non-representational film (see Stan Brakhage). |
Saturday, October 04, 2003
1:45 PM
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