What is Visual Music?
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“With the worlds first-ever concerto for paintbrush and orchestra, Perryman introduced a new art-form. How thrilling to be at its birth! As it moved on-screen, the paintbrush itself also became a vital image, insect-like, loose-limbed, humorous or moving with swirling lyricism.” Birmingham Post
Norman Perryman creates a graphic choreography. Prior to a concert he memorises the score and rehearses it, like a musician. His paintbrushes use the sensual, organic properties of the colours to make them flow, pulsate or explode, as visual music. The spectator watches the evolution and erosion of these abstract images on a huge screen behind the orchestra. Sometimes an ensemble sits in the projected image, so that they are deluged with moving colours that harmonize with their music.
“One of the most memorable moments of the opening night of the Yong Pyong Great Mountains Music Festival was a performance by Norman Perryman in the Asian premiere of Murmurs in the Mist of Memory by Augusta Read Thomas. Perryman used overhead projectors to show his kinetic brushstrokes on screen during the music. He created an abstract illusion of spontaneity, building a layer of visual experience on to the music as it was performed on stage.” JoongAng Daily, 2007
Perryman’s performances provide a sensational experience of synaesthesia (the sensory cross-over where, for example, you see colour on hearing music, or hear music in images). The spectator witnesses a continuously surprising creative process.
"Stravinsky would have undoubtedly given his approval to the fantastic synthesis of live painting, theatre and music this weekend in the well-filled
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