Music Painted
Working with sound frequencies begins by discovering the connections between emotion, music or sound, vibration, and color; all united in synergy to make the invisibility of sound visible through my sound art project.
Sound art involves the use of sound to raise questions about its application in other artistic fields, expanding its conception toward new media and supports, and drawing on philosophy and metaphor for the transformation of the work.
Music, textiles, light, color, vibration, healing, meditation, form, and concept: everything is part of each artwork.
J. Torres
Painting Music: What Does Sound Look Like?
Through the use of cymatics, JAT interprets frequencies and transforms them into images. Sound, as contained vibration, becomes visuality, transcending genres, times, and spaces.
JAT builds a repertoire of morphologies that evolve from frequency to image and, subsequently, from image to musical composition. In this process, combinations of planes and colors emerge, designed to evoke the emotional atmospheres of each song.
This marks the starting point of José Antonio Torres’s sound research: a first step toward new relationships between sound and visuality, which will later expand to include reflections on affectivity and memory.