Study - Witch Gong Game II/10 by Barry Guy And The NOW Orchestra, released on Maya Recordings in 1994.

British bassist Barry Guy has expressed a vast affinity for the visual 'language' of Scottish painter Alan Davie's works and here delivers a sonic echo of Davie's Witch Gong Game II/10...

..Guy succeeds in low lighting the front – sounds, making this painterly in the way a visual artist reverses primacies like foreground and background to upset the smugly balanced watchful gaze of viewers. Dig the reproduction of Guy's graphic, single page score and its quirky arrows, symbolic renderings of improv units within the orchestra, and embodiments of celestial maps from ages long ago.

— Andy Bartlett (Earshot Jazz, April 1995)

https://mayarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/study-witch-gong-game-ii-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v57HDjpCB2M&list=RDv57HDjpCB2M&start_radio=1

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Study - Witch Gong Game II / 10
by Barry Guy and the Now Orchestra

"British bassist Barry Guy has expressed a vast affinity for the visual 'language' of Scottish painter Alan Davie's works and here delivers a sonic echo of Davie's Witch Gong Game II/10 alongside the shorter composition Study. With Vancouver's New Orchestra Workshop, Guy engages one of music's most intractably non-visual problems. That is, Guy's desire to image visuals in sound is de facto next to impossible. Compressing time so that a musical piece doesn't unfold along a timeline but rather leaps forth, as an arresting visual image can, is at least one of Guy's compositional strategies. Davie's paintings, in the words of liner notician Bill Smith, are "deconstructed to reveal the signs that are then used to generate a new language appropriate to the special needs of improvisers and composer alike..."

— Andy Bartlett (Earshot Jazz, April 1995)

https://mayarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/study-witch-gong-game-ii-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v57HDjpCB2M

#barryguy #alandavie

Scottish painter Alan Davie

Inspired by Jung and Zen philosophies, he was adamant that his paintings were significant as symbols. He believed that the ego was the enemy of true art and assumed the role of artist as a maker of magic.

The Alchemist's Mirror No. 1 [Opus 1357] 1957

#AlanDavie #Contemporaryart

Scottish painter Alan Davie

Inspired by Jung and Zen philosophies, he was adamant that his paintings were significant as symbols. He believed that the ego was the enemy of true art and assumed the role of artist as a maker of magic.

#AlanDavie #Contemporaryart