I just wanted to thank everyone for all your support and for coming out to see the works on March 6th at the Crossroad's Gallery at Goodwin House. As I said earlier, during my talk, musicians always have a dancing…
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…
Every year we donate one work to the Workhouse Arts Center's Collector's Showcase Gala. Oddly, I tend to put in my best work. Last year I put in a fun work that wasn't my best. I had had the flu…
On August 8th I had a phenomenal time at the opening for my show at the Workhouse Arts Center. I worked on a series of musical phrasings. All the months it took to get in all the detail worked out…
A wonderful man popped by the studio this weekend asking numerous questions about my visualization structures which prompted an immediate delving discussion on sound-shapes, physics, aesthetics and all that we are exploring in common. Before wrapping up, he added…
Jazz Envisioned: A Collaborative Musical/Art Evening Featuring the Jazz Interpreted Paintings and Drawings of Britt Conley and the original jazz compositions of John Kocur, Kevin Pace, Gene D'Andrea and Cristopher Galvan from our opening on November 8th from 6-9pm at…
Working on the finishing touches on this piece for my show this week at the Workhouse Art's Center in Lorton, Virginia. I've picked four Washington D.C. area Jazz composers and created a painting for each that represents the persona of…
A lovely, lovely day in the studio. Currently working on a massive jazz series. It's only 4 works, but they are large and infinitely chewable, which means complexity abounds. Not the best for deadline work! But the best for me…
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. …
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!!!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Much thought went into this and the others of this series. I think I'll just let it poise itself for flight and keep the thought behind this mum for a bit. Britt
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A representation of a piano and all the percussive twings, twangs and melodic strikes from all piano music played over it's existence, compressed in time. I was going to add three pedals below, but am still considering the composition at…
Not sure if I'm winning or losing this game in life but I'm tired of going around the board. Had a pipe burst and long story short I'm moving my entire book, vinyl, cd, dvd etc..., etc... collection over to…
A little fun after a long week of pitfalls and ponderings. Will be posting the entire story tomorrow. Just needed to have a bit of fun, let loose and dream of the sea, sun and all the fun one has…
Ideas in construction... not bad for a quick sketch idea. Will use the top half for a painting. The bottom has moments but overall missing the structural grace and spatial balance. I could either complicate it into that state or…
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…
I had a lovely lunch the other day with a friend of mine. Being drummers, we inevitably landed on the topic of what we drummers gets out of playing with everyone. He pointed it out it's all about that lovely…
I wanted to capture the feel of sound of an overture being performed in a lovely wood hall. The musicians and instruments act as a singular unit and thus are abstracted as one. Looking forward to transposing this onto 4…
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…
Traversing the Interval Sea. I'm currently artistically breaking down some basic music theory in order to learn more about it. As an artist it's all about shape. Sound has always been about color, shape and touch... what does it look…
Currently doodling about. I'm still in a bit too much pain to begin the logistics of my next project steps, so more daily sketching. Had a visit to the local bakery for a very large cup of tea and a…
I've been wrapping my head around melody lately. Not so much as a musician but more as an artist. The shape of melody and how it functions. My original on this has a far more fluid and dynamic line but,…
Nose still hurts but the mind is ready for flight. Many conceptual considerations in the making... supplies procured... the time to fuel. Britt
Well, I've been down for the count for the past few days. It all started a few weeks ago when a glass framed print came off the wall and into my face. I had bit of a concussion and it…
