Images on Kettle's Yard website
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Claude Heath was the Kettle’s Yard and Christ’s College Artist Fellow 2002-2003.
Claude Heath has rightly been recognised as one of the most outstanding artists of his generation, bringing to his work a lively intelligence and a radical sense of experimentation. Employing such unconventional strategies as a blindfold to make drawings by touch using contour lines to describe an object, or drawing upon surfaces hidden from view, Heath attempts to close the gap between sensation and its transcription in visual form. These experiments in drawing often serve as starting points for larger scale works, including paintings and wall-drawings, whose size offers new interpretations of the imagery.
From the Kettle's Yard website
 The Rules
- Visit the Claude Heath exhibition at Kettle's Yard Gallery. It runs only until November 3rd 2002. (No, it's not good enough just to look at these images.) (Information about Kettle's Yard opening hours is here.)
- While looking at the works, try to imagine what they might 'sound like', if you could 'transpose' them into sound.
- Do so.
- Write the piece for no more than four instruments.
- The piece should be no more than three minutes in duration.
Some Ideas
- What's hard to see from the images on the left is how the paintings are made from hundreds of dots, often of superimposed colours. You have to see the originals!
- Consider using a number of different 'pictures' for different 'inspiration'. The piece need not consist of one 'interpretation' of one painting. It could just as easily be ten or more 'interpretations' of paintings, one after another.
- Don't only think about the overall 'images' in the paintings. Consider also the technical way in which the artist has implemented them. Consider these methods when composing your music - can they, too, be 'transposed' into music?
- It's worth considering forms other than standard ones for this project - for instance, rather than ABA, consider AA'A''A''', etc., or even ABCDEF, etc.
- Don't forget various possible 'technical' methods of 'transposing' the images - fluttertonguing on woodwind/brass, etc., tremolo/col legno battuto on strings, but don't overplay these as they're effects and tend to get dull quickly.
General Notes from the last time this was done
This project has not run before.
A few other general points:
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Good luck!
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