In a message dated 23/06/00 3:13:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Kandinsky was a russian artist but the russians hated him because they > were all gung-ho proletariet socialists and had really strong opinions > about what should be considered art (i.e. suprematist and constructivist > movements fronted by kasmir maleavich). Kandinsky was into more > expressionist stuff that the russians considered totally frivolous, so he > ended up spending most of his life in germany. But what I thought was > coolest thing about his work was trying to capture music and sound in > painting. he also did some work with russian comoposer Alexander Scriabin. > Scriabin had some really interesting ideas and for a while was trying to > create music that crossed the human senses. sounds that invoked a sense of > color rather than sound- i.e. controlled synesthesia. he also started a > project to build a big color organ that played lights along w/notes - > like from the end of Close Encounters movie except some 50 years earlier. > I'm not even all that familiar w/ his music, but he had some really > interesting ideas and theories- would recommend looking him up sometime. >
Agreed. Malevich and Kandinsky for me reflect quite a lot of the vision of techno music, as denoted by the Futurist and Suprematists work. Some of the colour schemes and minimalism in these works are just amazing; one can see the parralels of rejection by mainstream culture - almost that which at the same time is a recurring theme in the wider appreciation of techno music. Speaking about music/ sound / synaesthesia in art forms, I have been personally working with a local (ex-Russian) computer animator called Illya Nikolai who does some equally amazing and unprecedented computer art which I think is the epitomy of any digitally-related animation/ art. Broadcasting locally here on an independent TV station Channel 31 but soon to take on all areas of the often cheesy world of techno-related computer animation. If you think all those X-Mix videos were alright, multiply the scope by 3 zeros and you get what I mean. Check it out, downloads and all. Any electronic artists or labels that might be interested in putting out some music on Illya's DVM trademark format (music on a DVD which is also CD-Rom compatible), you can get in touch with me personally for more details. http://www.liquidmusic.com.au/ Cheers, A_Zed _________________________________________ Program Co-ordinator, Ambient Zone RTRFM 92.1 Sunday Electronic Listening [http://rtrfm.ii.net] Perth, W.Aust (WST) 23.00-01.00 Detroit (EST) 10.00-12.00 Frankfurt (CET)/ London(GMT)16.00-18.00
