Tectonics

Tectonics charts a private passion of the author and describes a practice-based, research-led investigation into visual music. Common to painting and musical composition, the project was concerned with the formal aspects of audible and visual composition, their similarities and differences, their processes and systems. This studio-based project explores aspects of musical composition through painting. The research aims are three-fold: to consider the relationship and association of music in contemporary abstract painting practice; to develop new theories about processes and techniques currently based upon a notion of ‘contemporary visual music’; and to present the documentation of this research process as an integral to the exhibition.