20 - Jack Fisher’s ELELEL
The Art
ELELEL by Jack Fisher
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Jack Fisher writes….
ELELEL is part of my abstract contexts portfolio and follows a process I am developing as an exercise in high abstraction. The process begins with a text and design layer that reflects moods and thoughts at the time. A second layer ignores the first layer except for design cues and semiotic suggestions. All of this takes place disregarding any pictorial or representational possibilities, resulting in a composition with text and design.
My third layer creates a series of delineations, black outlines, holding the composition together. these are definitions of non-objects since nothing is pictorial and the delineation defines whatever appears within its outline. I have a portfolio of such works. The final step is an expansion of the outlines until they become contexts, which is a more powerful definition, still surrounding non-objects. the process assures that any narrative is purely a function of suggestion and a play on the semiotics and composition itself, meant to stimulate the imagination and provoke articulation of purely abstract considerations.
detail from Jack Fisher’s ELELEL
My Music
Following on from Jack’s process, I worked in layers, taking on the prominent shapes, dynamics, numeric and alphabetic symbols as the structural elements of my first layer. I took 9 as the uppermost measure of rhythm and used sixteenths as the division. You can hear these as repeated sequences of “dots” echoing the dots in Jack’s work.
There are many sections in the music where 5, 6, 7 or 8 take charge of the time signature then move on. I used many mallets on different surfaces for these changing time signatures.
Project 52.
The Artists
1 - Kathryn Portelli
2 - Helen Hiebert
3 - Petrus Spronk
4 - Ann Lewis
6 - Cornelius Cardew
7 - Bronle Crosby
10 - Casey Klahn
11 - Maggie Ruley
12 - Jim Carpenter
13 - Gerda Tobler
14 - Pete Goodlet
15 - Kathleen O’Brien
16 - Cynthia Morris
17 - Mark Payne
18 - Juli Cady Ryan
19 - Shakespeare
20 - Jack Fisher
21 -Nanci Hersh
22 - Padraig McCaul
23 - Laurie LeBreton
24 - Sophia Khan
25 - Linnet Hunter
26 - Lisa Call
27 - Brenda York
28 - Holly Wilson
29 - Dariusz Klimczak
30 - India Flint
31 - Chris Maynard
32 - Mauricio Paz Viola
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35 - Patty Sgrecci