Artists Music Picks. - Studi0 Playlist

28 Feb

Music plays a role in most people's lives, we listen to it to go to work, at work, to work out, to dance to the rhythms or to contemplate life. Not only is music our companion but like a friend or a partner it can influence your mood, it isn’t surprising that platforms such as Spotify, Deezer etc create playlists such as ‘Mood Booster’, ‘Sad Songs’, ‘Life Sucks’ or ‘Confidence Boost’. In the history of modern art many artists such as Kandisky, Klee and even Mattisse were influenced by sonic experiences and created entire bodies of works influenced by music whether Jazz, Classical or Afro Beats. In 1877 Walter Pater wrote his most famous sentence : ‘All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. ‘ He isn’t wrong, whilst painting is bound by mimicking the physical world, music is not and therefore allows for a sensory experience different from painting. In search to abandon the notion of a subject the abstract artist turned to music and recreated what music does, but visually.

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I often find myself jealous of the instantaneous ability of music to provoke emotions, plenty of artists try to convey emotions through their art but the reach of a painting compared to that of music is far apart. If competing with each other is impossible one does wonder, whether music and art can have a profound influence on each other. If an artist listens to the same album throughout working on a piece does it emulate the music? How much influence can the music in the background have on an artwork ? We know that music can have a direct impact on your emotions and we know that colour has the same power could the equation therefore be : Music creates emotions + emotions create colour choices = finished work ?

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Unaware whether that theory is right or wrong as an artist or even viewer it might be an interesting thought in the back of your mind whilst creating a work or looking at it. If through listening to an artists music choices we can understand their art better, museums and galleries should start handing out headphones with curated playlist as part of their audio guides. Wouldn’t that be fun? In the meantime some of the exhibiting artists from Becoming Habits have shared with us their studio songs.

Chapter 1

Una Ursprung :

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
Take My Breath Away - Gui Borrato
Collider - Jon Hopkins
Bach: Goldberg Variations (1955 Version) - Glenn Gould
loneliness #3 - Her soundtrack

Raffael Bader:

Intellectual Property (feat. Open Mike Eagel) - Alph Tha Alien
Easy - Son Lux
LUST. - Kendrick Lamar
Cinque - Arthur Hnatek Trio
Jazz - Mick Jenkins

Elliot Jack Stew:

HardBeat - Jamie Lenman
I should’ve sent roses - Elton John & Leon Russel
Valentines Day - David Bowie
Losing it - Fisher
R U Mine - Arctic Monkeys

Chapter 2

Miranda Forrester:

Big Conspiracy (feat. icee tgm) - J hus
Trust nobody - King Princess
I want you - Erykah Badu
Up late - Ari Lennox
Paradise - Nilufer Yanya

Omer Halperin:

The Return Of The Durutti Column - Durutti Column
Hearing Music - Joanna Brouk
Divine Songs - Alice Coltrane
Last Night The Moon Came - Jon Hassell

Helen Waldburger:

Ou va le monde - La femme
Sur la planche - La femme
Si un jour - La femme
To me - Chet Faker
Cigarettes and Loneliness - Chet Faker
Canopée - Polo and Pan

Witalij Frese:

Taste - Rhye
Pulse - Ori
Runaway - Oscar and the Wolf
Rennen - Sohn
Healing - Howling

Chapter 3

Mary Herbert:

Two Halves Touching - Carmen Villain
Turquoise - Johannes Klingebiel
Unfucktheworld - WOOM
Arrival - Domenique Dumont
Atmosphere - James Blake (from Covers EP)

Valerie Savchits:

Temple - Baauer ft M.I.A
Smoke (remix) - Blood Orange
Escalate - Tsar B
Blood // water - Grandson
This is the new shit - Marilyn Manson

Realf Heygate:

Dream - John Cage, Alexei Lobimov
Gong Baths - Slow Riffs
Amb 8 - Pablo’s Eye
Seashore - Oh Yoko
Darién Gap - LT

Lihi Turjeman:

American Intelligence (full album) - Theo Parrish
Clic (1974)Full Album - Franco Battiato
Buchla Concerts 1975 (full album) - Suzanne Ciani ‎New Energy (2017) (full album) - Four Tet
Rona Kenan - My Prison By The Sea