EYEmusic – The Poetry Project at Lone Star College – Kingwood Fine Art Gallery

Every exploration begins with questions.

What if music was created differently?

How can I inspire and compel musicians to explore sound in a manner different than dictating their actions through traditional notation?

Can I create a mechanism that allows musicians to incorporate more freedom into the music creation process?

To answer these questions, I created EYEmusic.

EYEmusic scores have used visual art combined with a story given only to the musicians. The stories act as a lens, focusing the musicians performance.

The EYEmusic scores created for “the Poetry Project” are a new development in the EYEmusic process. The scores have been inspired by the works of poets and writers.

The first poet for this project is David LeJeune.

The audience will read his poetry, see the graphic score, and then hear the instrumentalists and singer craft the music in the moment.

This project presents the opportunity to hear two different interpretations of the same EYEmusic score and poem by two ensembles in the same performance.
The two ensembles, Loop38 and Relative Dissonance, use very different approaches to new music.

At noon on November 14th at Lone Star College – Kingwood Fine Art Gallery come hear them discuss their approaches to interpreting the EYEmusic graphic notation, and hear their unique performance!

Then at 2:00 pm hear Loop38 and Relative Dissonance perform their interpretations at the Recital Hall on the Lone Star Campus!

Line Star College Kingwood is located at 20000 Kingwood Dr, Kingwood TX, phone 281-312-1534 for more information

The November 14th EYEmusic Poetry Project at Lone Star College-Kingwood is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, and through Lone Star College – Kingwood Fine Art Gallery.