Artist’s Corner – Kevin Baldwin: Ameriques

Graphic Realizations are a way for me to create a visual of the listening experience of a musical work. It is a visceral response to what I hear; utilizing my musical training as a composer and performer informs the process, structures, shapes, lines, and so on. How does the form of a musical gesture relate to the curvature of a line or shape? How does the rhythm of a phrase create a sense of movement, repetition, or articulation? By listening to a musical work, without any preplanned notation of what the visuals may look like the creation of a Graphic Realization results from an impulsive and unpredictable performance.

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A Letter to the Painter I Didn’t Know I Was Becoming

Dear reader, I didn’t think I’d become a painter. When I was four years old, I told my parents I wanted to be a dessinatrice—a graphite artist. I didn’t know what that fully meant, only that I wanted to spend my life with pencils in hand, in a quiet room, making images appear where there was once only blankness, until late in the night. It felt like a kind of peaceful magic, and it still does. But life, as it often does, led me through a long and scenic route.

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