“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” Victor Hugo

My work is influenced by the sounds of everyday objects that we take for granted. This current practice has been inspired by my musical background. I focus on the interaction between sound, drawing and sculpture. By listening and drawing to the sounds, my work creates a range of vibrant graphic scores, colours and shapes. Subsequently these translate into a variety of three dimensional forms. The materials embodied within my work begin the creative process with their individual sounds.

Please see Chris Kenworthy's website for some of the Embroidery pieces....

http://www.chriskenworthy.co.uk/2010/05/degree-show-manchester-metropolitan-university/

The Embroidery degree show 2010



The degree show....June 18th - June 23rd 2010

Creating sounds/music and responding to these through drawing results in a full cycle and could keep developing through experimentation and collaboration with alternative musicians, sustaining my practice.

My final 5/6 drawings are influenced by the sounds of musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music, taken from previous drawings that i produced whilst listening to everyday materials. Displayed at the degree show 2010 will be the sound compositions along with drawings and three dimensional pieces which have been made reflecting the sound. I aspire to build on this knowledge to enagage two different communities, communicating with art AND music.

Collaborating with Jason Singh

Working with students from the Royal Northern College of music meant that i had lots of sound material to manipulate and use to create new exciting sound compositions. Previously in third year i took part in a workshop with a group called Sampler Culture Clash and met Jason Singh. Most recently i have been collaborating with Jason to create final sound compositions considering material sounds and instrument sounds for my degree show.

Below you can sample four of the final sound compositions:







RNCM students playing - 2 x drawings, variety of line, shape, composition and colour, each musician responding to one drawing


Robin Eggers - Percussion
Tom Wilkes - Cello

When i asked the students to respond to these drawings it was apparent that they knew they had similar drawings as they kept responding to one another, determined by movements on their particular instruments.

RNCM students playing - A0 drawing, mainly black and white with flashes of colour


Robbin Eggers - Percussion
Tom Wilkes - Cello

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RNCM students playing - Inspired by a music score



Robin Eggers - Percussion
Tom Wilkes - Cello

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When presenting the musicians with the obvious graphic score notations i felt they became less expressive and too obvious with the sounds they were producing. It presented tone, pitch and actual notes and stopped improvisation.

RNCM students playing - Black and yellow drawing


Anthony Brown - Soprano Saxophone
Ben Watte - Saxophone
Catarina Ferreira - Cello

Robin Eggers - Percussion
Tom Wilkes - Cello
Both sets of musicians thoroughly enjoyed improvising to this drawing due to its continuous line and flashes of colour which can be interpreted into two sets of sounds or tones. They felt that having both black and white, and colour helped to read and respond to the drawings.

RNCM students playing - Small drawing

Anthony Brown - Soprano Saxophone
Ben Watte - Saxophone
Catarina Ferreira - Cello


Robin Eggers - Percussion
Tom Wilkes - Cello

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Download (2) avalible here

RNCM students playing - Two colours


Anthony Brown - Soprano Saxophone
Ben Watte - Saxophone
Catarina Ferreira - Cello

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Original recording

This is a previous recording of everday materials. It has influenced my drawings creating new instrumental pieces.



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