Artist's Statement on Abstractions

The universe contains creative energy. This energy flows in nature. Mother nature follows the creative design imposed by this energy. When one views nature and begins to appreciate the intricate machinery, insight into ones existence is developed. Musicians have the ability to tune their inspiration to connect to the creative energy and produce composition to express themselves. Music is the result of direct interaction between a musician and creative energy in the universe.

Title: Miserlou Year Completed: 2005 Exhibitons: March 2006, it was part of the Klesmer Company concert. Video was on 2 big screens while the orchestra played in sync with the video. Exhibited as Honorable Mention at 5th Annual Beecher Center Art & Technology at Butler Instituate of American Art, Youngstown State University.

Music on it's own merit is a good candidate to represent abstract art. The distance between the pure universal creative energy and music is minimal compared to other art forms such as painting that represent landscape and still art. Such paintings are one step away from pure creative energy as they are reproducing nature in one form or another. Nature is one step closer to universal creative energy then the paintings that represent nature.

Animations such as Misconception and Superimposing Form Upon Chaos are not interpretations of the music. Instead they pose an alternate reflection

Title: Four Plays Year Completed: 2004 Exhibitions: Siggraph 2005 Art Gallery

of the source energy from which the music is derived. Musical composition provides the mechanics for personal expression. From one musical composition, there are infinite visual compositions. This is possible because music provides ONLY the architecture, the mechanics, and the cue points for abstract elements to enter the visual stage and exist after their meaningful performance. There are many abstract elements for any particular musical element. In this sense the visual composition is in equal standing as the musical composition in relationship to the
creative energy of the universe.

Title: Misconception Year Completed: 2004 Exhibitions: Miami Light Box, November 2005

Lets for a moment imagine what a baby experiences in the womb. Once the ears are developed the correspondence between the baby and the world is enhanced. Ability to hear sound beyond the womb initiates a process of interpretation of sounds.This causes intelligence and imagination to bloom. The child has to develop a process to attach imaginary meaning to tone, rhythm, crescendos, melodies and other attributes of music. There is no scientific study that concludes such results but there is Mozart effect phenomenon that was presented in 1993 at University of California, Irvine by Gordon Shaw and Frances Rauscher. They speculate that classical music improves intelligence and learning especially Spatial- Temporal Animation Reasoning. They conclude "after listening to Mozart Sonata for two pianos in D Major, participants improved their scores on spatial-temporal tests." One can safely conjecture that the relationship between sound, motion, intelligence and learning are developed in early stages of life.

Title: Black Lines Dancing Year Completed: 2004 Exhibitions: Siggraph 2005 Art Gallery Optronica Film Festival 2005 54th All Florida Juried Competition in Boca Raton Museum of Art (2005)

Four Plays, one of the animations with Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Yo-Yo Ma is an example of imaginary visuals that corresponds to music. There is an abstract idea of a Cello being constructed with musical tones represented as abstract elements for the tones and musical motion. Miserlou and Black Lines Dancing are animations that advance from lines to shapes and forms. In Miserlou, colors are introduced at specific times, after careful analysis of the construction of the musical composition to emphasize musical climax with visual climax. Misconception is conglomeration of many simple ideas to create a complex concept. Ironically, sometimes Misconception is misunderstood. Misunderstanding is intentional by the artist for amusement and intellectual entertainment. Also, misunderstanding Miscocnception does not change the meaning of the work.

Title: Superimposing Form Upon Chaos Year Completed: 2003 Exhibitions: Siggraph 2004 Art Gallery Anifest 04 Animation Theater at Western Connecticut State University (2004) It was also broadcast in South Germany by TV Channel Sudwestrundfunk in March 2004 It was also part of a DVD compilation that received a Classic Telly Gold Award in 2003

Artist mischievousness is expressed with black bars on the top and the bottom, then grey and last the color center as a play on video aspect ratios. It is clear that the meaning of Flight of the Bumble Bee by Rimsky Korsakov,music for Misconception, has been twisted to fit the artist vision. Hence, getting closer to the original creative energy of the musical composition as an alternate interpretation. The next level of advancement would be for the artist to create both the music and visuals. Vivek Patel has already created original music to this end. It is only a matter of time for visuals to be produced and new works of Art to be created.

December 2005