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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