Date: 01 Mar 2015
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Tags: Bach Festival, Bach Project, Exhibition, J.S. Bach, music, painting
The Score Is Not the Music
In June, you’ll be able to catch my artwork as part of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. As an occasional singer in the Festival, I’m looking forward to being involved this year on the visual art side. Should be the perfect pairing of artwork and music! Be sure to come out on Sunday, June 14 for a presentation at 2:00pm that explains more about my process and looks at other forms of untraditional music
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Date: 07 Feb 2015
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Chromography: Writing in Color
I’m thrilled to announce that for the first time, all of my Bach Project artwork will be on display together in one place! Fellow artist Gerard Brown and I are exhibiting a variety of works related to translation and color-based communication at Rowan University. The show will include my 24 Preludes from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, 24 of the movements from Bartok’s Mikrokosmos, the first Bach Cell
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Date: 21 Sep 2014
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Tags: Bach Project, Bridgette Mayer, Exhibition, Overheard
Overheard at a Gallery
Prelude No. 19 has been up at Bridgette Mayer Gallery this month. I stopped by the other week for a FringeArts show — a dancer and 2 musicians responding improvisationally to the artwork on display — and enjoyed overhearing several audience-goers talking about my work. “Why do you think this is here?” (pointing to a particular pattern) “Maybe the colors are each a note and the boxes are rhythms.R
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Benefit Exhibition at Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Be sure to stop by Bridgette Mayer Gallery on Friday, September 5, 2014. Prelude No. 19 is up for grabs (in a 10″ square format) and proceeds will benefit BalletX. [details here] Prelude in A Major (blue-violet), No. 19
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Date: 31 Mar 2014
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The Halfway Point
Halfway! The first 12 (of 24) Preludes, based on Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.”
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Date: 03 Jan 2014
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Bach Project Tutorial
How does it work? What is the system? I hear these two questions a lot. So for all you curious minds, here’s a peek into my Bach Project system. It starts with a bit of elementary music theory. The chromatic scale has 12 half-step tones. I’ve drawn it here in C, which is the simplest key on the piano and the key J.S. Bach chose to begin his Well-Tempered Clavier suite. Next comes a little color theory. A
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Date: 02 Jan 2014
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Tags: Bach Project, J.S. Bach, music, painting, preludes, watercolor
Preludes 1 through 6
One-quarter of the way through — the first six (of 24) Preludes, based on Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.
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Date: 19 Oct 2013
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Tags: Anna Madgalena Bach, Bach Project, Etsy, J.S. Bach, music
Bach Project on Etsy
After a two-year hiatus from selling online, I’m now stocking an Etsy shop with my new Bach Project artwork and oddities. Where else can you buy an original watercolor of Prelude No. 1 in C Major? Or a music-themed Rubik’s Cube?
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Welcome to My Studio
Welcome to my studio, dear antique drafting table. Can’t wait to make you look much, much less clean.
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The Reconstructionists
“Every Monday for 12 months, The Reconstructionists will debut a hand-painted illustration and short essay highlighting a woman from fields such as art, science, and literature.” [from Storyboard] Think Anna Magdalena Bach will make an appearance? I’m fascinated by this Reconstructionists project (the title makes me think of religious movements?) and love the combo of illustration with text. Togethe
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