Music Inspired by Art [GUIDE]
Music Inspired by Art is a guide to music I’ve composed in response to ideas, atmospheres, and narratives from visual artworks ranging from 20th century Modernism to Italian Renaissance sculptures.
I believe music has the potential to have a profound effect on the way that we see and understand visual art, and vice versa, in the same way that a score enhances the experience of a film. I aim to create music that acts as a pathway for listeners into a richer and more meaningful relationship with works of visual art. Similarly, I hope the artwork may act as a pathway for viewers into my music.
Most of the content in this guide was originally created for a concert companion for a live performance of several of these works. View the original concert companion here. The concert and content for the the companion website were funded by an Entrepreneurial Grant from the New England Conservatory of Music.
The Course of Empire (2008)Inspired by paintings by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), English-American)
[learn about the art]
Inspired by paintings by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967, American)
[learn about the art]
Inspired by woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858, Japanese)
[learn about the art]
To Create One’s Own World(2009)
The Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe and the New Mexico Landscape (2010) [VIDEO]
Inspired by the paintings and artistic philosophy of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986, American)
Inspired by poems and sculptures by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564, Italian)
[learn about the poems]
[learn about the sculptures]