A friend of mine had ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ painted in large script with a violin on a statement wall in her new flat. She must have been excited. She has moved since, and I’ve not been invited to her new house. There is a long history of visual music worth reading.
I’ve been told that if you are good at maths you are good at music. I’m not sure what that means. Does it mean sight-reading sheet music, or being able to do the dad-dance at 150 bpm? (that’s a number). My son Luke is very musical. He doesn’t like maths though. Was it his teachers? To help him at school I ordered what I understood to be child-friendly maths books by Carol Vorderman, the pretty lady on the telly. The delivery was late. I was away on a trip for a few weeks and they arrived a week after I had left. On his birthday. He thought it was a present I had sent him from the Middle East. Nae luck. He will probably cite that incident in later life. I’m sure I bought him a birthday present too, although I don’t remember what that was now. Must be my mathematical mind. A lesson from school
I’m on the left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSbDwpIyF4
A painting tutor of mine used to play Sibelius at top volume in class. We put up with it probably because his son was Edwyn Collins, who was in Orange Juice, a big band in the eighties that we liked better than Sibelius. Did then anyway. At that time and at that age the biggest connection between art and music was the gatefold LP. Nice. Even now.
The art expert in this newspaper article seems to be concerned with only a subsection of what visual art is. She was probably chosen for that reason by the journalist. I wonder why that was?
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