Art, music and language often seem to be separated out into different strands of artistic effort, but they are nearly always combined at some point of delivery or other. Many artists are exploring several types of art form, including poetry, theatre and, principally, visual art. The old saying, “Jack of all trades, master of none”, was always a nagging doubt at the back of mind during these forays, and I always remembered the advice a fine old baritone singer once gave me about the arts some years ago - stick to your discipline, and spend a lifetime getting better at it. All the same, the temptation to wander has always been great and difficult to resist. many have always felt that the arts are completely interrelated, so that creativity in one so called field of practice can easily cross over into another - writing a poem seems to me very similar to the process of creating a painting, or creating a new piece of music. The wonderful thing about art today is the ease which we can cross over these media and fuse them all together, with the aid of relatively simple video editing equipment, available on all home computers.
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The life long love of the guitar eventually brought Lawrence Mathias to the point where he was creating his own music, a kind of hybrid of country blues and whatever else seemed to work itself through, and having for some time been a dabbler in poetry, the words would come quite easily to these simple little tunes. It was at this point that the music for him would begin to gain more resonance, as a story or situation or feeling would begin to wind its way through the simple melody lines. Hidekazu Sogabe had found his medium of making art in sound. Many find it hard to grasp such an abstract form; other than melody, Hide’s music is a series of “ children play” of joy and an adventure on constantly experiment with various material. Through exploring the materials such as bass and containers, Hide has been able to make “ noise” into poetry that goes directly to listeners’ inner heart.
by Lawrence Mathias