Tuesday, November 21, 2017

improvisationaLU with live art

This is a very delayed reflection, but still fresh in my mind. A couple months ago, Lawrence hosted its second ImprovisationaLU, a festival celebrating improvised arts, primarily music. This year, visual artist Lewis Achenbach did live painting to every set, documenting the music and musicians with abstract and impressionist paintings. This had a huge impact on me as a music journalist. I began to think more about how his documentation of the art was different than mine. His could stand alone, it was left up to interpretation, it still complimented what inspired it well, it was not just a newsy piece that said exactly what happened, and so on. I thought about how music journalism—at least in the mainstream—does not do things. I cannot help but believe that this is the direction music journalism (and other writing about other mediums) should go. What would it look like? I will find out.

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