100 days of Music as Art

I didn’t think this would be easy. I was, am, daunted by this challenge: create a piece of artwork reflecting a piece of music each day for one hundred days.

How do I do justice to the medium of sound that I love so much, that connects so directly with my emotions. This is a tall order.

So why on earth do it? This is after all a self inflicted challenge. No one is holding me to this except myself.

I think I am enticed by this challenge is a desire to connect to music again. This pandemic has silenced the concert halls and I have not played in an orchestra for ten months. For a musician this hurts - physically hurts in our being. Like we have lost a part of ourselves.

Listening to music has been painful, it is getting easier. I want to listen to music for the purpose of creating art because I think it will inform my listening, my appreciation of music as much as it will affect my art work.

I am very aware of Kandinsky and how he used music to inspire his own art and further it towards abstraction. I intend to do research into Kandinsky and his approach, however I have to confess to not liking his work very much. I could change my opinion as I explore it further but it doesn’t have an emotional connection for me which I feel essential to any discussion or appreciation of music.

I am unsure how I will pick which pieces to create from. Do I focus on different composers which sound different to each other - have their own sound colour palettes or specific, favourite pieces? Do I stay with music I know or explore into realms I’ve never been? There are many possibilities. We will see where the journey takes me.

To follow along please go to Instagram and follow my account @kirsty_matheson_art (you can also click on the camera icon in the top right hand corner of this webpage) and also my hashtag for the project #100daysofmusicasart

I welcome any feedback so if you feel like it, do get in touch.