Bestaande muziekwetten, die over de gehele wereld zijn geaccepteerd en toegepast vormen de grondslag.
Bovendien kan een zekere controle plaatsvinden van het visuele beeld en de daarbij behorende auditieve wereld. Nodig is een kundig oog en oor en een objectief oordeel.
Na de nodige oefening en ervaring op deze gebieden zal men er in slagen bij het bekijken van bedoelde schilderijen een indruk te krijgen hoe deze klinken.
Er kunnen ‘vreemde vormen’ in de schilderkunst voorkomen of ‘dissonanten’ in de muziek.
Alleen abstracte schilderijen, bestaande uit lijnen en/of vlakken, kunnen in muziek worden omgezet en vice versa.
Het schilderij klinkt zoals het er uitziet en zoals het er uitziet klinkt het.
Het notenbeeld geeft een direct en totaal beeld en hoeft niet als een partituur pagina voor pagina te worden omgeslagen.
Om de lezer dezes een indruk te geven hoe de composities van mevrouw Sedje Hémon klinken, kan men diverse filmpjes van haar muziek op “YouTube” terugvinden.
Sedje Hémon – Lignes Ondulatoires – Ensemble Modelo62
Performed in Theatre Korzo, The Hague, at the Sedje Hémon: Hidden Agreements program.
Sedje Hémon (1923-2011, born Sedje Frank) was a Dutch visual artist and composer, who, throughout her long career, developed a distinguished and individual artistic voice both with her paintings and compositions.
She had an intimate connection to music and drawing from a young age, and was dedicated to playing the violin professionally. After the war, she transitioned to painting and composing, largely because the physical injuries she sustained in concentration camps during the war made it impossible for her to continue playing violin. Hémon’s urgency to express her ideas though art became evident from her very first exhibition in 1955, when art critics were struck by the music “hidden” within her paintings.
Hémon’s theory of the “integration of the arts” aimed to prove the common origin of all arts. To put this theory in practice, during the 1950s and 60s she developed a method to generate musical scores directly from her paintings. Various musical parameters (such as duration, pitch and timbre) would be extracted based on the points along the lines and curves of the paintings. This approach resulted in a body of approximately 300 paintings, some of which were later turned into musical scores for internationally acclaimed ensembles.
Throughout her long career, Sedje Hémon worked with a variety of artistic media and produced a large body of paintings, compositions, lino-cuts, cut-outs, and sculptures. In 2017, her work was exhibited in documenta 14 in both Kassel and Athens.
Sedje Hémon – Harmonie – Ensemble Modelo62
Performed at Theatre Korzo during the Sedje Hémon: Hidden Agreements program.
Sedje Hémon (1923-2011, born Sedje Frank) was a Dutch visual artist and composer, who, throughout her long career, developed a distinguished and individual artistic voice both with her paintings and compositions.
She had an intimate connection to music and drawing from a young age, and was dedicated to playing the violin professionally. After the war, she transitioned to painting and composing, largely because the physical injuries she sustained in concentration camps during the war made it impossible for her to continue playing violin. Hémon’s urgency to express her ideas though art became evident from her very first exhibition in 1955, when art critics were struck by the music “hidden” within her paintings.
Hémon’s theory of the “integration of the arts” aimed to prove the common origin of all arts. To put this theory in practice, during the 1950s and 60s she developed a method to generate musical scores directly from her paintings. Various musical parameters (such as duration, pitch and timbre) would be extracted based on the points along the lines and curves of the paintings. This approach resulted in a body of approximately 300 paintings, some of which were later turned into musical scores for internationally acclaimed ensembles.
Throughout her long career, Sedje Hémon worked with a variety of artistic media and produced a large body of paintings, compositions, lino-cuts, cut-outs, and sculptures. In 2017, her work was exhibited in documenta 14 in both Kassel and Athens.
Sedje Hémon – Mouvement d’un adagio – Ensemble Modelo62
Performed in Theatre Korzo, The Hague, at the Sedje Hémon: Hidden Agreements program.
Sedje Hémon (1923-2011, born Sedje Frank) was a Dutch visual artist and composer, who, throughout her long career, developed a distinguished and individual artistic voice both with her paintings and compositions.
She had an intimate connection to music and drawing from a young age, and was dedicated to playing the violin professionally. After the war, she transitioned to painting and composing, largely because the physical injuries she sustained in concentration camps during the war made it impossible for her to continue playing violin. Hémon’s urgency to express her ideas though art became evident from her very first exhibition in 1955, when art critics were struck by the music “hidden” within her paintings.
Hémon’s theory of the “integration of the arts” aimed to prove the common origin of all arts. To put this theory in practice, during the 1950s and 60s she developed a method to generate musical scores directly from her paintings. Various musical parameters (such as duration, pitch and timbre) would be extracted based on the points along the lines and curves of the paintings. This approach resulted in a body of approximately 300 paintings, some of which were later turned into musical scores for internationally acclaimed ensembles.
Throughout her long career, Sedje Hémon worked with a variety of artistic media and produced a large body of paintings, compositions, lino-cuts, cut-outs, and sculptures. In 2017, her work was exhibited in documenta 14 in both Kassel and Athens.
Haar in 1996 verschenen boek HEMON’S INTEGRATIE DER KUNSTEN, stelt iedereen in de gelegenheid over haar levenswerk te lezen en het te bestuderen (ISBN 90 75080 26 3).
Stap voor stap, in ruim 320 pagina’s, wordt een toelichting over de volledige achtergrond en realisatie van haar werk gegeven. Een groot aantal tekeningen, muziekvoorbeelden en foto’s van haar schilderijen verduidelijken de tekst.
Naast haar boek is er evenzo een paperback uitgave verschenen van 112 pagina’s (ISBN 90 75080 52 2).