Abstract, animated art (2)
Peter Petersen
First of all, a big THANK YOU to you all for your answers and concern !
Unfortunately, and maybe I haven’t got the latest information, here in Continental Europe (France) real broadband access doesn’t seem to exist so far, and therefore I am so sorry, Peter, at least for the time being I cannot use your advice. Nor with the online CD stores, however it could be an idea (?) to put up one here myself.
You refer to some Russian. And I suppose, I have already seen something in that direction as well as something from the UK. But I hope you excuse me my professional pride, as you already say, but still without knowing, I know, I can do better.
Here we also come to the personal “problem” of mine. I don’t want to
do less good, in colors still, on a screen than I can do on a canvas.
Of course I agree very much to what you said, Harvey, concerning “electronic
arts” and “computer artists”
As well as, the fact that you mentioned John Whitney was a very big
discovery to me. Of course I have never heard of him. My background is
Scandinavian. With lights, I suppose, more or less like up in Alaska or
(Northern) Canada, and therefore that the idea with lights, colors, music
is somewhat rather obvious. Few years ago I heard, on the BBC, about a
Danish composer, Per Norgaard, and later I have taken contact with him.
Scrijabin (I always have problems with Russian names) and here Messiaen,
just to mention some of the more famous.
Like John Whitney, I suppose, I just go “the other way around”. With
colors.
Nonetheless, reading the introduction to John Whitney it does indeed
resonate with my own ideas.
Even down to, very amazingly, “On the complementarity of Music and
Visual Art”
Also, as I hope to have finished ver shortly a book about, with more
or less - why electronic arts in comparison to a more traditionally based
art ? But in French though (very soon, I hope, I shall be translating it
in to English), in a kind of dialogue with my mainly French speaking wife.
Three year of work it is, where so far I have been trying to turn every
single stone of what I could see as a possible problem. And yet, the information
with John Whitney was in fact so important that I have to mention him as
well.
On the other hand, I am quite glad with what I have already achieved
or how the manuscript is already turned out to be, in a way even to the
point that I am so sorry that I cannot send you a copy straight away.
Thanks again,
Peter