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  Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC

  the Art of Sound - - the Sound of Art*


Award-winning composer/pianist blends his expressive piano virtuosity with the harmony of color and rhythm.   "Painted Music" by Jerzy Sapieyevski
 is a dynamic multimedia event in which a painter - in live performance - engages in a visual and musical dialogue with the pianist. The painter's brush generates sounds and rhythms while the painting evolves in the presence of an audience. The canvas becomes a musical instrument! The painter - a performing artist.

The composer's inspiration owes its genesis to three great artists: Russian abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky - who saw music in colors; the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró - who often started work without a specific idea and let the painting “assert itself”; and the American Abstract-Expressionist, Jackson Pollock - who practiced spontaneous “action painting”.  Sapieyevski’s design is a moment-specific, multi-layered composition in an entirely new performance format that transforms the relationship between musicians, artists and the public. The result is a groundbreaking and visionary expression of modern Art.  

"Painted Music" Press               Short Rehearsal Video

  Click here for slide show of 2006 "Painted Music"
or
"New York collaboration with painter Makoto Fujimura"


     
  by Don Kimes  

click here for other events:

"Songs of the Rose"

"AESOP FABLES" with Bob Bennett

"Visual Piano"

"New York collaboration with painter Makoto Fujimura"

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