Interactions: Art and Music

The NYTimes has an article up about what is being found as employees start sifting through boxes in Warner Music warehouses. Clue - Lots of photographs.

Visual art has historically been a powerful component that deepens fans’ music experience,” said Will Tanous, an executive vice president at Warner who is overseeing the project. “We lost that in recent years. But with today’s emerging digital platforms, we have the opportunity to inspire a renaissance in visual art associated with music.

Let's hope they do inspire a renaissance.

Oh and Lisa Tanner, photographer, for Atlantic Records in the late 1970s manages to sum up the art of making great pictures....

“You just sort of hung out,” she said, “and waited for a moment to happen.”

Somethings never change.

Slide Show

Image Credit: A copy of a letter written by Beethoven in 1819

Moving Pictures: Fernand Leger

An early film from the Dada era: a collaboration between Fernand Leger and George Antheil. The music and film were not screened together until the 1990's.

 Fernand Leger, Ballet Mecanique (part 1), 1924 with music by George Antheil Fernand Leger, Ballet Mecanique (part 2), 1924 with music by George Antheil.

Below is a robotic musical performance of Antheil's music created with 16 player pianos, percussions, electric buzzers., etc.

Leger is best known for his paintings of mechanical people and is also associated with the Cubist and Futurist movements in art.

Image Credit: Fernand Leger, Mother and Child, Oil on canvas, 1921 - This image disappeared without a trace in 2008 from the Wellesley College's Davis Museum.