woodson-holbert project

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Over the past few years, celebrated painter Jim Woodson has produced a series of large landscape paintings of the American southwest featuring stream of consciousness surfaces and colorful ellipses. For this collection of work, rather than having traditional titles, Woodson imagined musical compositions derived from the paintings themselves to function as the titles.

Woodson was introduced to award-winning film composer Darius Holbert and a collaboration was born. 

The project enlisted the help of an animator, Tarik Castilho, to add a cursor which follows the painting as it is rolled out.  Each painting in the series has an accompanying animation video by which the painting is 'played' like a sheet of music.  The result is remarkable; each musical piece, while derived from the paintings themselves, still functions as a standalone composition.

Available to view on this site are three of the actual process films, plus a behind-the-scenes short film of Holbert explaining the scoring process.

This vast project is nearly complete, and the process of finding a museum home for this multi-media exhibition has begun.  The vision for the presentation of this Woodson-Holbert Project will include the process films and accompanying tech to play the scored titles as the viewer moves through these large, extraordinary paintings. 

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