2015

During the past year I have been investigating the relationship between music and the brain. I am especially interested in music’s power to create emotional meaning, albeit being considered highly abstract. Music also complements our cognitive understanding of language, fostering the generation of mental structures in our perception of rhythm. As with any other mathematical discipline, music has a logical structure that can be constructed and deconstructed complexly: musical notation.

Lacking musical literacy, I attempt to understand music exploring it from the perspective of the visual, deconstructing sound via my own visual codes. To that end, I have created musical scores, based on my own conceptualization of music and my purely aesthetic approach to musical notation. These scores are later interpreted by musicians and recorded. I have also developed a system by which the viewers themselves can make music through my work. Following a visual diagram/score drawn over images of outer space, the viewer makes hand movements that, by means of a Theremin (a device which generates musical tones of varying frequencies in response to movement), create sounds reminiscent of science-fiction films—sounds that evoke the sense of mystery that space has for us.