Susan Dobay

VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF MUSIC

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In the late 1970s, I painted my Opera Series on canvas. Painting while listening to the music, I was fascinated by the amazing opera stories. After 45 years of expressing myself through conventional techniques on paper or canvas, in 2008 I started to experiment with the computer. I listened to the music and fed into the computer those images that I had painted in the 70s. I integrate images from the original paintings while receiving instant-to-instant emotional impacts from the music.

VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF MUSIC

Image Integration: Susan Dobay 
Music Composer: Anna Ignotowicz
Music Performer: Lynn Wartan  
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Toccata for Marimba

Toccata 1

Image Integration

Toccata 2

Image Integration

Toccata 3

Image Integration

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IMAGE INTEGRATION

SEARCHING image integration to use technique and not to be used by technique.
I take advantage of today’s technological advances and at the same time keep the human emotions alive. To express something from within is the foremost goal of an artist, much more valuable than merely showing off technique.In other words, the meaning and the visual impression should be considered first, with technique providing the foundation to deliver the artistic message. Today's technical advances, combined with the human mind and hand, open endless possibilities to push the envelope in artistic expression. I believe any media, any kind of tool in our contemporary time the computer should help to bring science and the arts closer to each other. 

Responses to: VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF MUSIC

Robert Butts, Music Director/Conductor at Eastern Opera Company of New Jersey
" Thank you for the links. Very imaginative and wonderful.  I greatly enjoyed it. "
Adrienne Darvay Nagy, theatre expert, writer, historian. 
"Congratulation from the bottom of my heart, to the idea and to the execution. Your visual- music: is truly COMPLETE ART, The colors, rythm, impetus etc...the tolls of visual art practically instruct music and mold it to a certain "color -theatre " language...
Villo Petho Ph.D Music Professor 
Researcher. Historian" Interpretation of music - this song's intense is testimony to the artist's fantastic creation of music and visual art".....
Gino Sitson Vocalist - Composer - Educator, Ph.D in Musicology/Ethnomusicology
" Fantastic work, Blessings " 
Rebecca Edmondson, Music Educator, Conductor - TEMPO 
" Your music and art interpretation are stunning"
Jonathan Bell, Composer 
" Susan I think what you are doing is very beautiful. Congratulation on your work."
Adann-Kenn Alexander. Movie Critic - Valdosta Daily Times
 " Thank you for the link.  This is my favorite because I hear music when I view it. "