Reversing Zigzag Ostinato
Here is a musical concept as a painting. I call it ‘Reversing Zigzag Ostinato’. In music, an ostinato is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.
My idea was to use only the reversing zigzag motif over and over across the canvas and then see what I could make out of it. While I like this painting, I think on a future variation of this idea I will make the zigzags bigger and not cover the entire canvas with them and leave more open spaces so it can sing a little more. As is, it turned into a kind of hum or texture.
That's a cool painting. And thanks for introducing me to the word "Ostinato".... I love the sound of it.
This reminds me of the music of the monolith in the "Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra "(2001: A Space Odyssey) by Gyorgy Ligeti. If you look at the musical score, it shows the fluctuating patterns of dense and spare clusters of notation. I used to look at the music score sideways to give me a better concept of the composition. Here is an article that explains it better than I can: https://www.secondinversion.org/2017/06/29/a-singers-account-of-gyorgy-ligetis-requiem/. Here is a link to the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcC6B-i28YE. It doesn't follow the typical protocol of Coral Composition and performance. You might find it inspiring or at least interesting.