The Devil’s Note
Posted on | January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’d been wanting to make another painting for a few weeks, but tend to reserve paintings for my very best ideas or strongest inspirations. They take a long time for me, so I have to be pretty attached to the feeling and mood of the piece to have the patience for finishing it.
That said, we were playing music with our friends Alex and Sarah last week and they played us one of their songs. I instantly loved the dissonant, creepy melody and the imagery of autumn, burning forest, fathers, sons and the linchpin: the Devil’s Note.
Apparently in Western music, there’s a note (or set of notes?) so “off” sounding, that it became sometimes known as the Diabolus, or Devil’s Tone.
Anyhow, I started seeing it in my mind and here’s the result.
Love,
Sam
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January 23rd, 2010 @ 10:39 pm
This was installed on Governer’s Island this summer: http://vimeo.com/groups/5194/videos/6463279
Though I feel like on the chance that there is something too it, you probably should let babies sleep beneath it.
Also, great painting!
January 24th, 2010 @ 2:20 am
um, that thing is awesome! i’ve always loved dissonant sounding music like that… i think there’s something lovely to it, like grey skies or howling rains. hmm.
sam
but perhaps, yes, we should keep the babies away from it.