Author Archives: Sam Formosa

About Sam Formosa

Conceptual artist, painter, sculpture in ceramics, paper, metal, wood and who make use of his created alphabetical, numerical, and musical notation systems as core foundation of his art work.

Peter Grimes.

Peter Grimes          Peter Grimes.

 

Some of my reflective thoughts regarding a talk, on the ABC Classic FM radio entitled ‘Benjamin Britten – A Personal View’. A talk on the life and work of Benjamin Britten, between the presenter Graham Abbot and Paul Kildea.

This work is but one of a series regarding this talk.

 

Music 7+7+7+7.

Music 7+7+7+7     Music 7+7+7+7.

 

One could also say 7+7+7+7 Steps of music.

Don’t forget the duration of the notes/sound/rests. Therefore, duration equals D28 (plus other variables ). This is a musical composition, different logic, different abstractions to other mathematical statements.

The artwork explains some of the starting point (singular) of the structures of a musical composition. Scales, retrogrades and reflections. However, this is but one of a model for creating a musical composition, and that there are an infinitive number of symphonies to be had.