There’s often surprise or shock when a performer or artist associated with a single milieu reveals an aptitude for another. Most folks see producing music wholly detached from the process of working in graphic design or in painting. But there are definitive similarities.
Both records, the source material for beats of all varieties, hip hop, IDM and otherwise, as well as canvas has a distinct surface upon which an creative type’s hands are laid in one way or another. With records, when mixing them or scratching, the deejays hand lays needle to vinyl while maneuvering the record plane. Doing this in tandem with another spinning disc on an adjacent turntable is the stuff of music.
In working with a canvas, a similar plane is manipulated. Stretched to it’s natural end, the white canvas finds a painter marring its pristine condition with swipes and swoops of a brush dipped in paint. In some instances, enough paint is focused in a single area and another, raised plane replete with texture emerges.
The outcome of working with canvas is obviously a visual one where the end result is a manipulation of not just surface plane, but paint and other materials as well. That doesn’t sound too detached from determining the rate and frequency of a needle laying into a record.
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