INSPIRATION/THEME: One, shade, harmony, syncopation, counterpoint, movement, shifting spaces, shadow, beginning, ending, complexity, opposing strands, intertwining, vibration, overlaying, continuum
Musical Tone Poem – is a piece of orchestral music designed to tell a story or illustrate a poem, painting, myth or other non-musical inspiration. Developed in the 1830’s during the 19thC movement of Romanticism, it combined multiple movements into a single principal piece.
Asemic Writing – is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”, or “without the smallest unit of meaning”. With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art. Where asemic writing distinguishes itself among traditions of abstract art is in the asemic author’s use of gestural constraint, and the retention of physical characteristics of writing such as lines and symbols.
The signs and symbols we create in order to communicate – iconographic symbols, mnemonics, graphemes, rebus, alphabets – all marks made on a surface in order to communicate. But these signs and symbols only communicate to someone who understands them or who can interpret these marks – to anyone else they are just unintelligible squiggles.