Harmony, the Union of Music and Art

This paper discusses the creative process explored in the creation of the project A Hidden Order by artist Sama Mara and composer Lee Westwood. A Hidden Order is an audio-visual project merging the worlds of Traditional Islamic Art & Western Contemporary Composition through the universal language of mathematics. Comprised of an album, collection of artworks, a film suite interactive platform and live audio-visual performance. The project is based on a method discovered by the author that translates music into geometric artworks and vice versa, where pattern represents rhythms and colours relate to pitch. The use of this method enables unique approaches to the creation of music and art where one may create a geometric artwork entirely through the use of musical composition, or inversely create a musical piece through the visual design process or any combination of these two approaches together. This property allows for the practices, techniques and creative choices of each discipline to inspire, inform and shape the other.

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Sama Mara

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 130-137

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[0001]Musical Forms

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www.samamara.com

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.32

SO-VID: df07362f-6621-410e-bca8-344973a599bb

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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6. REFERENCES

W. Kandinsky 1914 Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Dover Publications Inc. 1977 25
S. Mara 2016 The Rhythm of a Pattern Bridges Finland 2016 The University of Jyväskylä 9-13 August 309 316 Tessellations Publishing Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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[1] W. Kandinsky 1914 Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Dover Publications Inc. 1977 25

[2] S. Mara 2016 The Rhythm of a Pattern Bridges Finland 2016 The University of Jyväskylä 9-13 August 309 316 Tessellations Publishing Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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