AVANT GARDE A CLUE II
OCTOBER 24th -26th 2025
EYEmusic performance October 26th at 6:15
75 Stutson St.
Rochester, NY
Travel and Rochester vibes
EYEmusic VIII-the border
Lone Star College-Kingwood Art Gallery 2025 Faculty Show,
October 1st -December 3rd
LSC-Kingwood Campus [APA] - Administration and Performing Arts Center, Room114
20000 Kingwood Dr, Kingwood, TX 77339
Resonator Project Station I: Insulin-Water Equivalency
This is the first station in the installation. The Insulin-Water equivalency
This is about what is shaping me, and what may be shaping you.
It is about awareness,
It is about changing lives,
It is about transformation.
I recently was diagnosed as being type two diabetic. I have been using insulin from May to the present and have been using
the Bluetooth Stelo sensor to monitor my sugar levels and adjust my insulin dose.
I have amassed information about myself, and if you are diabetic as well, you may be doing the same.
It is transforming me, and if you are diabetic, it is transforming you.
Today, we will use this information to transform something external, and in doing so we will share that transformation.
If you are diabetic and keep track of your insulin amounts, I invite you to do the following.
Using the syringe on the cart in front of you, slowly drop the same amount of water droplets as units of insulin you have used
today (35 units=35 drops) onto the top clay plate.
Count the drops out loud.
Choose one area centrally located on the plate to add the drops.
On the sheet to the right, write the date and number of the number of drops you deposited on the clay plate.
Feel free to return during the run of the show to add your daily amount to the clay plate and come see how the plate is transformed.
Finally, if you know of any other people who have diabetes and might like to participate, please spread the word and invite them to visit and add their daily totals to the upper clay plate.
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Aaron Bielish 10/8/2025
Resonator Project: Station II
Cantus Incognito (The extraordinary lies within the mundane)
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness.
By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns
can be replaced with new ones.
Pauline Oliveros
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence
is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.There is always something to see, something to hear.
In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
Listening is never static, cannot be held on to, and in fact needs to be found again and again.
As such, it is disruptive in its nature.
Paradoxically, while a grounded and calm state of mind, a sense of safety, peace and relaxation are essential
for inspiring perceptual wakefulness and a willingness and desire to open our ears, normal routines,
habits and patterns will be disrupted and laid bare in such a process of listening;
noises and discomforts inevitably will be noticed, and all kinds of experiences will be stirred and uncovered.
Listening in fact implies a preparedness to meet the unpredictable and unplanned,
to welcome the unwelcome.
Hildegard Westercamp
Resonating bowls
Merge 2025
The second generation of Merge images began in a similar fashion to the first. Generating a large data set of digital finger painting images from which to create various iterations. In this case the images come from a unique finger painting app only found on the iphone 4s. This was my first smart phone, and it is being used to generate seed images for this data set. It will continue to do so until it is no longer operable.
I am currently at 85,000 unique images that I can combine.
Combining images together using a variation of the panorama idea, except the final images create new and fantastic variations, all based upon my manipulations in the panoramic process.
The next phase in the series is to create a custom generation engine that uses solely my own images with which I can collaborate on new iterations.
These images below are variations from the iphone 4s data set.
"Not-quite-outer space and not-quite-graffiti but, rather, a mature and singular artistic vision."
The Sustainable Arts Foundation
The Sustainable Arts Foundation
The Idea of a Border
EYEmusic VIII-the border mvt I (2018)
EYEmusic began as an investigation of the idea of what a musical score could be using the shared territory of language, music and visual art. The drawings are created from a story, either personal to me, or as a commissioned piece using another individual's life event as the initial source of inspiration. In the process of listening to an individual's telling of their story, aspects where my life experiences intersect with the individuals. They become woven into a combined narrative. This interwoven story, the experience of lives intersecting affects and changes my life, creating a certain sympathetic and empathetic energy that imbues the drawing and links the story to the graphic score. The story is transfigured into a visual retelling through mark making, thus creating a unique musical score, which now also exists as visual art.
When viewed as a score by musicians, there is no specific notation symbol, rather, the work is to be viewed as a visual work by the musicians. From their observation of the score, the musicians will derive a reaction to the marks, lines, shapes and patterns. From there the story enriches and shapes the musicians' interpretations of the marks in a process not dissimilar from the storytelling found in traditional music rehearsals.
Each graphic score has an accompanying story. In contrast to traditional program music, the stories of EYEmusic scores are hidden. They are given to the musicians only. The stories act as a lens, focusing the performer's interpretation of the visual art. The audience sees the visual art and listens to the music. The audience is free to make connections based on their experience of the score and the music.
When viewed as a score by musicians, there is no specific notation symbol, rather, the work is to be viewed as a visual work by the musicians. From their observation of the score, the musicians will derive a reaction to the marks, lines, shapes and patterns. From there the story enriches and shapes the musicians' interpretations of the marks in a process not dissimilar from the storytelling found in traditional music rehearsals.
Each graphic score has an accompanying story. In contrast to traditional program music, the stories of EYEmusic scores are hidden. They are given to the musicians only. The stories act as a lens, focusing the performer's interpretation of the visual art. The audience sees the visual art and listens to the music. The audience is free to make connections based on their experience of the score and the music.
New EYEmusic graphic notation will be created as part of the Faculty show.
The EYEmusic graphic notation is initiated with a story.
What you see on the wall is from a story told to me in 2018 regarding a border experience.
I would like to make an updated story with new border stories.
If you would like to share your story, please reach out to me at the contact page on my portfolio
so I can hear your story and create a new EYEmusic movement.
EYEmusic-the border mvt II (2025)
