Syntony automatic painting performance short vol.1

Painting: Jakub Kreft
Music: Ian Costabile
Cello: David Gomez

The piece was performed in Bridewell Studios&Gallery in Liverpool for a vernissage of Jakub Kreft solo exhibition on the 9th of June 2017.

Ian Costabile and Jakub Kreft present their ideas through a provocative approach between art disciplines.
Through combining live painting, music and technology they are searching for more than an interaction between the arts, it is a search for syntony; the harmonic correspondence of thoughts and emotions between performers.

At the same time the cello (David Gomez) sustains organic sonorities, the painter adjusts spatial balance and a variety of other parameters due to electronic sensors attached to the canvas.
Thus, visual transformations become a result of sound influence on the painter, while the painter’s actions also influence musical interpretation.
All the above is expressed through the use of colors and sonorities that occur concurrently, infusing an organized texture to hybrid art.