Paintings by Marlene Dumas set to music by Alex Wilson

A series of works by the South African artist Marlene Dumas with a solo piano score written and performed by yours truly Alex Wilson.

This is the type of unusual and exciting project that stimulates me as a musician. I was given the DVD with no sound beforehand and asked to prepare piano pieces for each artist. On the day of the recording, I was in the studio Steinway in front of me and TV monitor screen to my right and the record button pressed ! Here you can experience the results.

The works were exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery and filmed for Astra, director Tony Salmon

To find out more about Alex's CDs, visit : http://alexwilson.net/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Marlene
• Dumas
• painting
• art
• music
• alex
• wilson
• piano
• solo
• contemporary

[LePetitSalon]

Thank you for your marvelous music accompaniment to this wonderful artist work. I saw her exhibition at the MoMA in NYC for the first time, and I am hooked, We have discussed her work at the salon at length and I am sending this video to all of our members. I love your composition, it is perfect for this video.

Host/Organizer

LePetitSalon

[AlexWilsonPiano]

Very pleased to receive positive feedback. It is the first project of this kind I have done but would love to do more ! My experience in the studio I imagine was similar to the musicians who played along to the silent movies in days gone by .... Alex

[sarvenazt]

i love ur music Alex!

[asteroid684]

These images are of poor quality but her work is one of my favorites.

[crazykeyman]

I have three songs that I also wrote from paintings. here is one of them.

[BlissStudio]

nice work Alex. you read her work great!

[BlissStudio]

Well done it worked perfectly.

[MsArleneS]

This brought so much extra emotion to the images and I find her work truly powerful as it is! Thank you. It has a slightly Eastern European feel to it if you don't mind me saying, reminds me of something Czech then again some Norwegian too. I could listen to this all night. Thank you.

[diaszo]

I feel much more dramatism in her works-sometimes even tragedy-than this music suggests to me

[solhagen00]

thank you for posting this!your music is really amazing together with her paintings..i just discovered her in pinakotek modern art in Munich,she s great