Composition Projectx

“The students felt enormously inspired about the idea of writing their own musical reactions to a painting”

“They were very interested to hear an artist talk about structures, depth, time and so on, and it was incredibly elucidating and exciting for them to hear her very personal views on the connectivity of intuition to the act of creation”

“It was a mind-blowing experience for them, not just the painting but the whole process of having her discuss her painting and how she created that work, and I believe that we sensed that in the works of the students”

“Because she managed to somehow fix on a static medium something that has so much motion, something that, by definition, could not be fixed on a static medium, I really had to think how I would reflect that in music.”

“This work has truly changed my approach to spontaneity, because it’s something that Fabienne Verdier approaches with remarkable seriousness.  There’s a playfulness, yet it is informed by very concrete concepts.”

“In the spontaneity, there is an extraordinary sense of search.  It’s not random, but driven by a strong desire to find a certain truth in the nature of the matter.”

“It was really exciting to think about the way I could be inspired by this painting, and my process with composing – especially when Fabienne was talking about her own creative process and how she feels the energy coming from the ground up – I thought there was no better way to describe this painting and music than through the human voice”

“The fact that the lines on this painting are not exactly even, and there are spatters and so on, that’s how I came up with the idea of using shush sounds and layers to create this landscape”