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  A Carnal Formula: Music, painting and the creative process (last edited: 2018) author(s): Matthew Noone This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  How do a painter and a musician make work together? What elements of creative process are shared between music and the visual arts? And perhaps more interestingly, what are the divergences? This exposition focuses on an artistic residency in the Burren College of Art as a case study exploring theoretical frameworks for making and perceiving music and sound. It uses my own creative process moving between composing and print making as a dialogue between different forms of perception. Drawing upon phenomenology and deconstructionism, this exposition argues that aesthetic responses are paradoxical, in that both painting and music can touch a pre-cognitive body based knowing yet at the same time there is no absolute meaning. This conundrum is equated with Merleau-Ponty’s idea of a ‘carnal formula’ and I attempt to extrapolate this idea through outlining my creative processes.
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