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Music as Data

So I've been spending much of my time working on the new show for September.  It's titled, Music as Data.  The point is addressing music from when it's being recorded all the way to once it's already data and being…

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Menagerie Musique

  Creating a lot of drawings for my next show, set for the 2nd Saturday in August.  Exploring, examining and enjoying some graphite.  This one was going to be donated to The Workhouse Arts Center Collector's Showcase, but I was…

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Percolating Sound

So much has happened this past year.   July marked a great turning point.  This year I was lucky enough to be incorporated into a studio that I absolutely love.  I'm at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia.  It's amazing. …

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Creative Seeds

Today's drawing is Creative Seeds.  It's about laying the ground work for what will be my artistic future.  The ideas's that I've never been able to logistically bring to fruition can now be easily executed, due to my new studio!!!…

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The Tuba Player

I was just going through my drawings, organizing things and realized I had never posted this.  It's part of a series on music, well, part of a subset group that will be on musicians playing. All is well and very…

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Entanglements Within

Despite the lack of postings here, I'm in the middle of doing some really wonderful and far more complex works than what I've been posting the past few years.  That said, it's a private world until it's all complete.  It…

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One Fish, Two Fish…

I've been busy working on several large scale musical works.  They are nearly 4 feet each and coming along swimmingly :)  Despite the rather quick structural ease of each, the detailing is taking a couple of months. As with most…

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Reverie

Orchestrating a lot of ideas and pieces that are going into my current project.  For months and months I've been working on individual pieces of a massive work.  All sorts of test runs and problem solving, most of which I…

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Beakered Bliss

One of the beautifully lovely things about my current experimentations is that each piece feels like  a perfectly beakered bit of bliss.  Each work is a small player within a visual philosophic problem I'm attempting to find solutions to. This…

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The Excalibur

The Excalibur... the thing I love about it, is you know if you're the one and probably know before hand :)  Creating is very similar.  When you have your own voice there is no need to stumble around looking and…

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Trance-posing Me

Today I sat at the piano and instead of working on someone els's stuff, I worked on a piece I wrote on the drive in.  Getting into the keyboard went exceptionally well and it really felt fluid, like sea water…

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Write!

I rarely create literal works but this one is gentle but nice reminder for a friend of mine to use his tremendous talent for the sheer purpose of adding to the progress of humanity.  In other words, write for the…

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Impetuous Potential

Down and Dirty.  This is a quick and messy sketch that will need to be realized again on better and larger paper.  Today's drawing is a culmination of numerous circumstances that keep slamming my brain on occasion.  Last night another…

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Courtly Love

Courtly Love: a love worth the greatest efforts one has to give, the farthest wishes one has to hope for, and the greatest prize one can reach for.  It is elegant, upstanding, demanding and life changing and all with the…

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Inflation

Every now and again I do an abstract self portrait of my state of being.  It's been a way for me to assess where I am in the grief process.  Below this are a couple of other's along the way...…

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Music, The Making of…

From top to bottom: Notes fall from the staff into the realm of instrumentation, are converted into sounds while being played before being put toward the listener's perception as a lovely ballet of melodic line.  I have to clean this…

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Billiards and Bobs

What I love about this is that I tried something new in my arrangement: I placed a center-weight.  My work is designed on a very intricate balance like musical notes and they are not centrally placed on purpose.  Each line…

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A Long Shot

One of the great possibilities that can manifest itself in competition of any kind is the long shot. It doesn't just figure in the event itself, It's the configuration of how one gets themselves to that very moment.  It's the…

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Klee Klack

After an incredibly busy couple of months, I finally managed to get some drawing in!  This past week, I've been teaching a class to middle schoolers on how to draw music.  It really was wonderfully fun and amazing working with…

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In and of Itself

As mentioned previously, I'm working on numerous projects right now.  One of which is simple shapes. (https://brittconley.com/2012/03/05/mobius-stripped/) They counter the mental haul I'm having to endure over my big project and allow me to explore the purity of shape for shapes…

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