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This painting was realised during the first lockdown in London, spring 2020.
The first sketch of the idea made some years ago, it had been waiting for the right time to become a full scale work.
Acknowledging my urge for escapism, delving into this piece was an effort to transmute it… into a guiding, orienting force within me: a compass within this shifting, questionable reality. I fixated on “invoking” a spirit guide in the form of the creature in the painting.
The soundscape was created in parallel, the first sounds made as exploration in textures, of the layered fabrics of reality parting, making way for this character to pass through, with the singing voice as the intent and driving force.
In listening to it whilst painting, and meditating on the Guide, the words of the poem came and were then recorded, completing the immersive nature of this piece.

Artist: Alice Karveli aka Black Arrows

My image-making practice is a way of expressing my inner experience of the spiritual aspect of life and Creation… Their cyclical nature, ordeals/ecstasies they bring and growth achieved beyond them. Tracing the flow of elemental forces, entities, abstract and archetypal forms, allowing symbols and patterns to emerge organically.

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Sketching for this painting was done over many months listening to different music styles and songs. But it never progressed further from sketches. Driving in the car I heard the sounds of Iris from Goo Goo Dolls. The song that felt long forgotten and found again. I suddenly realised what the painting needed and how I can explain "the stillness" of Charlie's movement. I painted the entire painting listening to only this song.

Artist: Barbara LT

In my art I focus on painting the movement, “the feel” of contemporary circus artists. I usually listen to different songs while sketching, then when I find “the one”, that song stays on repeat until the painting is finished. I am a resident artist at Kew Studio, UK.
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I created this collage after rationalizing the feeling I get when I listen to Exchange from Massive Attack. The song has a melancholy tone but at the same time, the heavier beats, brings me back from the melancholy and reminds me of the reality that we often ignore, opposing the fascination and the suicidal. ‘Miss Valentine’ represents when the heart breaks. When we are constantly faced with the irreversible reality in which we live, the anxious reality, full of our own expectations and the controversy of others.

Artist: Bia Nasc

I have a bachelor degree in Audio-visual. I am a photographer and designer for the brands Aéropostale and Náutica Brasil. I am always looking for new ways to recreate the image. My main references are Japanese horror films, psychological horror classics, the New German Cinema and the Baroque and Dada art movements.

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The piece ‘Mulholland Drive’ was inspired by the David Lynch film of the same name, both in visual & musical form. Brian’s work explores the impenatrive illusionistic nature of the film. 
Although it is almost impossible to explain what the film is actually about it somehow holds together as a visual & emotional entity, rather like the artwork. Some say it is David Lynch’s masterpiece. Brian created the piece as part of a series of work called ‘Impossible Interiors & Exteriors’ also dealing with illusion. This work comes from a UK exhibition called ‘Sweet Dreams of Contentment’, a collaboration between Singer / Songwriter Pete Scott and Visual Artists Brian Ord and Valerie Close. Pete Scott’s interpretation of ‘Mulholland Drive’ also deals with the ambiguous & undecipherable nature of the film. He chooses to create humour from the idea of a spectator, watching the movie on a rainy afternoon.

Artist: Brian Ord | Music by Pete Scott

Pete Scott is a Singer/ Songwriter from Northumbria, UK.
Pete’s work is rooted in the culture of North East England.
He has performed regularly on BBC TV & Radio.
Brian Ord studied at Chelsea School of Art & has exhibited widely throughout the world. He also lives in Northumbria.

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The song ‘Oceanus’ was the result of a composition exercise. The idea was to create a simple melody (the piano track) and build it up with other instruments. For me, this song evokes the feelings of flow, movement and deepness, just like the ocean. And this art piece was created based on these sensations. The Fluid Painting technique used added up to the experience. Which consist of letting the paint flow on the canvas, without using brushes, to create unpredictable shapes, colours and textures.

Artist: Bruna Lauletta

I have always been fascinated by human emotions. I am graduated in psychology, and in addition to studying and working with emotions, I enjoy transforming them into art. My work is an exploration of ideas, sensations and emotions.

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I use multiple layers of digital manipulation on my photographs, I paint with pixels to create digital prints. I work with sound in a similar way, using numerous tracks that fold, and merge to create a visual statement. I have used memory, dream, loss, and emotion to articulate a narrative, my work often invites unsettling reactions in the viewer.
The Orange Tryptic soundscape was made using ribbon synthesizers alongside a keyboard. Plaintive notes gave cries of pain, like a wail, or a lament. I chose the idea of decay, inevitable slow deterioration which I captured in a rotting orange. The orange moans as the rot creeps across the flesh. It is the sound that provides the desolate haunting beauty of decay. Both Image and sound always coexist in my work, either through my videos or as soundscapes for single images. Soundscapes often precede the image theme as it has for Orange Tryptic.

Artist: Chris Avis

I search beneath the surface unpacking the layers that we keep secure, it is a fundamental aspect of my work.
My videos, performance art and prints have all been widely exhibited in the UK and Europe over the last twelve years.
BA. Fine Arts First Class honours 1994
MA. Art in Architecture 1996

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I absolutely love this song! It kept me going through the first lock down. The image is my interpretation of the lyrics…

I've been tryna call
I've been on my own for long enough
Maybe you can show me how to love,
Maybe I'm going through withdrawals
You don't even have to do too much
You can turn me on with just a touch, baby

I look around and Sin City's cold and empty
No one's around to judge me
I can't see clearly when you're gone

I said, ooh, I'm blinded by the lights
No, I can't sleep until I feel your touch
I said, ooh, I'm drowning in the night
Oh, when I'm like this, you're the one I trust
I'm running out of time 'Cause I can see the sun light up the sky
So I hit the road in overdrive, baby, oh...

Artist: Dawn Fincham

I love art and all things creative. I have organised and taken part in over 30 exhibitions of contemporary art and been included in the Association of Illustrators’ publications. I am a graphic designer by day and artist by night!

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This has been a fantastic experience for us as a couple, having the opportunity to combine our art forms.
After running through various ideas for the project, we eventually decided to work intuitively with no pre-conceived ideas. Our chosen mediums would be Acrylic paint (sponged/brushed) and on the sound side, the Kalimba together with a quirky wooden Italian Synthesizer.
We hit record, both nervous & excited about the outcome. Cacophony gradually turned into melody and rhythm as dancing shapes & forms started to emerge on the paper.
We hope you enjoy our offering. Now we can't wait to do this again!

Artist: Jennifer Lopez-Rateike

I am a Mexican born artist based in London. My art practice is influenced by intuitive art, the natural elements, alchemy and psychology, the uncanny and the remote.

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Music by Jules Dickens

I am a music producer & composer from London. My current focus is music collaboration to promote positive mental health.

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I have always loved the Phoenix symbolism, a bird that after dying rises from its ashes. It represents hope, renewal and the power of recovery.

Like most of us, the pandemic burned my world down. The loss of loved ones, my health, my career, my home, the country I was living in, the human touch, the loss of meaning... Of purpose. Grief and depression were my new normal. It took me more than a year to find my way back. But now I am feeling hopeful. I am finally ready to fight on and to continue my journey to recovery. Just like the Phoenix.

My song inspiration is also about recovery. I listened to it repeatedly during my darkest days. The singer/songwriter said she wrote it because she wanted to believe that she could be stronger, like a champion. It makes the perfect background for my phoenix rising again.

Artist: Juliana Lauletta

I am a Brazilian multimedia artist. My Light Painting Photographs are created exclusively with long exposures, without Photoshop, using stencils and light props that I build myself. I run workshops and organize exhibitions to empower people to rekindle their creative side and highlight the importance of art in mental health.

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Themes running through my work include: otherness, the feminine & totemic, the mask as a metaphor for identity, emblems, symbols and underlying meaning/subversion and optical effects. I often work in repetition for its meditative and spiritual quality, using music as a soundtrack & personal colour combinations that speak to my identity and interpretation of the world – all centred around my own story, personal mythology and childhood memories. I am drawn to memories of my youth in the 1980's with it music scene, neons, bold colours/minimalism - underlined by an anything goes - DIY - "can do" attitude. This work is a collage that I made listening to Tubeway Army's track Are 'Friends' Electric - I used to listen to this on repeat - mesmerised by the 'new' electronic sounds - over and over again. Important for me is and the aura of otherness and loneliness that pervades the song and its strong connection with London.

Artist: Kate Rossini

I am a Londoner and my work is about exploring aspects of my own identity using surrealist techniques to access the subconscious mind - looking inwards to mine what is hidden - exploring the juxtaposition between methodologies that impose rules & elements of chance in creating work and those freed from rational control.

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Killing Moon is a song that talks about fate, love, transformation, death and all the scars we get during life. The photographed ride cymbal has a very beautiful and artisanal process of making. This process is slow, it needs strength to form and so it has all the grooves and marks.

Just like life. And like the Moon.

Artist: Letícia Lima

I am a photographer and filmmaker. My work has influences from the world of music, fashion and cinema - mainly horror films from the 70s and 80s. I am passionate about art direction and I always seek to introduce a playful universe into my photographs.

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'Corpse' explores the extreme forces surrounding the remnants of a dead star. In 1967, Jocelyn Bell at the Interplanetary Scintillation Array just outside Cambridge, UK, discovered at consistent radio pulse coming from the cosmos. Pulsing at every 1 1/3 second and dubbed 'little green men 1', the source was later identified to be a rapidly rotating neutron star. Transferring these radio pulses into sound from modern recordings of neutron stars, produces a huge variety of sounds from consistent clicking to some that could be compared to heavy drumming sounds.
'Corpse' offers the viewer an impossible viewpoint and visualises the source of these transmissions up close. Born in a violent death, neutron stars are the remains of the collapsed core of a supergiant star. If two neutron stars become attracted by their enormous gravitational pull and collide with each other, they can fuse together new atomic elements.

Artist: Lewis Andrews

I'm a Fine Artist based in Leeds, UK. My work specialises in dealing with complex thoughts and ideas within nature and science. Investigating moments of extreme power, creation and rebirth. Questioning our relationships, place and role within the universe.

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I trace organic shapes in nature to celebrate the earth as it is. The trees create solid material out of thin air guiding the art. The water reflects the radiance. The Artist is grounded and shares this experience. I hope to capture the movement of the earth in the colours of the design. The sound around me is natural and part of the fabric of the design.
There is much meditation near the loch in Edinburgh that I paint - it is where a healing man lived in medieval time. So the sound relates to that. Also you can hear the water flowing.

Artist: Lita Doolan

I have exhibited at Modern Art Oxford Open Exhibition, Angel Row Gallery Nottingham and Oscar Wilde Rooms Oxford. I have had video work curated at Brighton Digital Festival.
I have studied graphic design and illustration online at UAL.
I have a forthcoming exhibition for Art Week Oxford.

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Film legend Michael Caine is a massive chillout fan. As someone who had been making mixtapes for years, in 2007 he finally released his own compilation album, ‘Cained’ (slang: intoxicated or literally co-cained) featuring his favourite tracks from artists around the world. ‘Slip Into Something More Comfortable’ is one of the first chillout tracks I remember hearing 20 years ago when Buddha Bar and Man Ray in Paris were releasing their CD playlists. They were immersive, atmospheric places where you sipped on cocktails and sampled some oh-so-smooth global lounge before buying the CD to take home like a musical tourist. In my work I’m looking for some magic in the mundane. There is a luxe quality that I love about this music which conjures up exotic locations and distant shores a world away from the East End of London where I am from (and where Caine grew up). Dive in.

Artist: Michelle Owoo

Based in London and Caux in southern France, my practice incorporates painting, collage, and performance. I like to look for the unexpected in the everyday as a springboard to creating narratives in my work.

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In terms of my realism work, it tends to stem from pop culture icons and figures. The music has a direct correlation in the entire reason I create this kind of work; if these people didn’t create the music, there wouldn’t be the subject for me to draw.
Everyone in the world has a connection to music, a lot like art, it can express how we’re feeling without us as the viewer ever having to find the words.
The black and white pieces I do focus solely on the connection between expression and music; paying ode to the great musicians who help us all so much.

Artist: Mimi, Ni Studios

I am a multidisciplinary artist, who runs an art shop and studio in York, UK. Whilst I consider a lot of my work to be autobiographical, I also specialise in realism. The topics of my realism portraiture seems to always stem back to pop culture.

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Composite image of a Squash court photographed from the T* position. The back and side walls were taken when the motion activated lights cut out, the front wall shot with the hanging fluorescent lights on. The photograph was then washed until the image gradually vanished into indistinguishable marks. T-shirts with the image were also produced and deposited into a textile recycling bank.
Like a kind of palimpsest, I became fascinated by the periodical washing of the court walls which muted all the previous marks until fresh marks began to appear and a new pattern of activity would build.
*The intersection of the red lines near the centre of the court where the player is in the best position to retrieve the opponent’s next shot.

Artist: Paul Michael Browne

UK-based artist using text, sound and ordinary objects to explore human nature, conversation and the incessant internal dialogue. Often deconstructing before reconstructing, listening, recording, reinterpreting and reminding myself that I stand in the moment, so to please act accordingly.

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The expression of art, no matter which one, touches my soul in different ways. Water and sound are two different kinds of waves that are part of the life, at least mine. When I sing or paint watercolor, I feel that the bad vibes go away and I feel my soul lighter.
I composed this song when I was writing the book "As belas adormecidas e a ciência de Morgenstein" (Sleeping Beauties and Morgenstein's Science), which was at the same time when I painted this watercolor.
I chose these two expression forms, because both of them have a sense of freedom.

Artist: Paulo Tiago Akio Ogura

I am a multimedia artist who likes to experiment with different forms of expression, such as: painting, music, writing, among others.

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It's a confusing time during the pandemic we trust our govenment whom has lied to us repeatedly and wear colourful face coverings as a fashion statement and get frowned upon for not keeping distance and keeping up with the latest fashion trends. This is divide and conquer this is oppression. Stand up and let your voice be heard think for yourself question authority. The reason I have chosen this song is that it is Important to take your sauce of news with a pinch of salt be insightful of multiple sources draw your own conclusion and do whats right for yourself. this song is Think For yourself - Formshift

Artist: Pybus

I am a self taught abstract artist from England. My artwork is a combination of digital and physical. In my work I reflect emotion and bizarre ideas creating surreal soundscapes that comes from my love of music.

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Created in response to Killing Joke’s “Death and Resurrection Show” (2003), this piece explores ritual trance and spiritual transcendence. The music consists of a largely monotone voice of rough texture and repetitive, chant like rhythm, which induced a trance like state as I repeated the coarse, circular motions and the contrasting vertical lines of reverberating beats of tribal drums. The open, ringing sound of the guitar is transmuted into bursts of light, energetic colours and translucent layers that signify creation and rebirth. Circular movements naturally occur throughout my work. Circles have a powerful energy in terms of movement and spiritual and symbolic connotations that transcend time and culture - cyclical processes such as birth and rebirth, ideas of oneness and the cyclical nature of our actions and reactions.

Artist: Rebecca Andrew

I am a painter, exploring overlaps in lyrical mark – making and print- making processes. My work is abstract, allowing for pure expression and interpretive freedom, without the confines of recognizable imagery. I explore themes of loss, faith, presence and the absence of presence, spirituality and the influence of biological rhythms

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An integral part of the new short story and illustration book "Os Vizinhos" (The Neighbors), by Rodrigo Scott.
Illustration, text and sound production by Rodrigo Scott.
Voice Over by Fernando Lauletta and incidental voice by Olívia Jábali.

Artist: Rodrigo Scott

Rodrigo Scott is a self-taught artist, residing in São Paulo, illustrator of contemplative human figures, writer of very small stories and composer of drawer music.

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Based on 'Give Up The Ghost' from Thriller Houseghost Remix by Radiohead.
Sounds are the dreams of spaces. I draw the spaces that sound fills. Each mark, a beat in time. Written words are a way of recording sound, and each mark made by my pen is syntax. Resonance and echo are like layers of transparent ink building into a form, an architectural space that you can inhabit and investigate. The place we visit when transported by and with sound is what I seek. Sound can transport you to where you are not physically present. As a material it shapes us. Sometimes materials sing. Sometimes there is dissonance.

Artist: Susan Atwill

I am a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art’s Sound Design pathway. Drawing underpins my practice in installation, sculpture, and film. I like edges, where things stop and start, and drawing is a way to investigate this presence/absence, sound/silence, exploring sound as space.

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The piece ‘When we were Young & Beautiful’ has been interpreted twice here, as part of the UK Arts Council Funded exhibition ‘Sweet Dreams of Contentment’ Firstly by the Singer/ Songwriter Pete Scott, & then by Visual Artist Val Close. Pete wrote the song as a sad lonely lament for lost youth, nostalgic, but also celebratory. It is very emotional.
Val took the song as inspiration for her Silk & Mixed Media Collage. The collage itself is made from old & faded Chinese Posters, collected on a visit to Beijing. The bird motif is often a symbol of impending death. . Borrowing from a multitude of classical and ethnic sources including Victorian ‘Trompe L’oeil’ & Oriental Poster Design, she juxtaposes these in various layers of space. The oval shape of the piece is suggestive of old fashioned photo framing. The emotional effect heightens when viewed whilst listening to the music.

Artist: Valerie Close | Music by Pete Scott

Val Close studied at Syracuse University, USA & has exhibited widely throughout the world.
She lives in Tynemouth, Northumbria, UK.
Pete Scott is a Singer/ Songwriter from Northumbria, UK.
Pete’s work is rooted in the culture of North East England.
He has performed regularly on BBC TV & Radio.

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