In today’s lecture Chris discussed the nature of creativity, historical content, the tools of my trade, a project and how he dealt about it.

Total artwork – a synthesis of music, drama and the visual arts.

Convergence of separate creative disciplines – Sigmund Freud, Roland Barthes, Synaesthesia.

Major convergence of music and art

• Johannes Itten
• Gustave Klimt
• James McNeil Whistler
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Franz Marc
• The Italian Futurists
• Luigi Russolo
• Marcel Duchamp
• Giacometti
• Jean Cocteau
• Film – Koyaanisquatsi – Philip Glass
• John Cage
• Schoenberg
• Abstract Expressionism
• Tinguely
• Fluxus

Use tools/employ skills that you have learnt/practiced/developed but also be prepared to adapt to new ways. Creativity is what you do with these tools.

• Music
• Songwritting
• Visuals