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Laneway Art – Artist – Newell Harry
Image by Crouchy69
Circle/s in the Round for (Miles and Miles + 1)
Newell Harry
"I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis
Contemplating Davis’s quote and the odd job of describing what I’m doing before it’s done, I’m stuck… so I’ll start with a memory. I grew up in a house of jazz, soul and R&B. As a kid I recall my mother amping up her weekend housework to Jim McLeod’s “Jazz Track”, or doing ‘the Bump’ with Aunt Vin to EWF or the Pointer Sisters in the kitchen. Like jazz, our home was entwined order and chaos.
Circle/s in the Round’ for (Miles and Miles + 1) takes its title from the breakthrough Miles Davis album, "Circle in the Round" (1967). The album marks the first studio recording in which Davis shifts from the ‘traditional’ acoustic structure of a jazz quintet, to that of electronic composition and ‘fusion’. The significance of the album heralds the beginning of Davis’s ‘electronic period’; an engagement that continued to his death, ending with the Hip Hop inspired, “Doo-Bop” album (1991). Incidentally, neon, as sculpture, also finds its inception around the same time as Davis’s shift – the heat of late sixties high modernism.
Back at Temperance Lane, the spatial rhythm of pulsating concentric circles is at once a visual homage to Davis, whilst containing an encoded word-pun to be kept ‘undisclosed’. The out-of-sync flashing circles and the textual word-play links, conceptually, to structures inherent to jazz composition, and spoken-word improvisation. Taoist philosophy fits in there, too, but without conjuring the hippy dippy it’s probably best to call it quits."
Taken with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod & 3 bracket shot. HDR conversion in Nik Software HDR Efex Pro, PP in CS5.
Laneway Art – Artist – Newell Harry
Image by Crouchy69
Circle/s in the Round for (Miles and Miles + 1)
Newell Harry
"I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis
Contemplating Davis’s quote and the odd job of describing what I’m doing before it’s done, I’m stuck… so I’ll start with a memory. I grew up in a house of jazz, soul and R&B. As a kid I recall my mother amping up her weekend housework to Jim McLeod’s “Jazz Track”, or doing ‘the Bump’ with Aunt Vin to EWF or the Pointer Sisters in the kitchen. Like jazz, our home was entwined order and chaos.
Circle/s in the Round’ for (Miles and Miles + 1) takes its title from the breakthrough Miles Davis album, "Circle in the Round" (1967). The album marks the first studio recording in which Davis shifts from the ‘traditional’ acoustic structure of a jazz quintet, to that of electronic composition and ‘fusion’. The significance of the album heralds the beginning of Davis’s ‘electronic period’; an engagement that continued to his death, ending with the Hip Hop inspired, “Doo-Bop” album (1991). Incidentally, neon, as sculpture, also finds its inception around the same time as Davis’s shift – the heat of late sixties high modernism.
Back at Temperance Lane, the spatial rhythm of pulsating concentric circles is at once a visual homage to Davis, whilst containing an encoded word-pun to be kept ‘undisclosed’. The out-of-sync flashing circles and the textual word-play links, conceptually, to structures inherent to jazz composition, and spoken-word improvisation. Taoist philosophy fits in there, too, but without conjuring the hippy dippy it’s probably best to call it quits."
Taken with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod & 3 bracket shot. HDR conversion in Nik Software HDR Efex Pro, PP in CS5.
