Not perfect analogies, but the idea is there. Zoë understands classical music theory and that methodology, but rejects it in a conscious pursuit of what became called primitivism in painting (though i prefer Gauguin’s term ‘synthetism’). Her music is intentionally segmented, allowing for a greater tonal and stylistic contrast between the fragments, and these contrasts allow for the audio analogue to brighter colors than usually occurs in more traditional approaches. But it’s not a violent rejection, the classical is there in the background, but only as a launching board.

Kaki King on the other hand is to some degrees the outsider. She comes across as someone who is simply playing with toys, but who’s technical ability makes that playing a spectacle. She isn’t worried about showing the edges of her ability, and by exposing them they become a part of the performance, adding a more direct connection to the audience. Where Zoë is memorized, Kaki is always in part, if not wholly, improvised. It would be a disservice to call her music fauvist as it now implies almost an inability, but she isn’t afraid to step into harsher edges of tone and music when the performance takes her there.

Or at least that’s how a slight synaesthetic with slight apophenia sees it.

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must be a serious post, i used some capital letters.

that’s sorta what visiting this gallery was like.

hey, there’s an art show coming to LA, it has paintings and prints by blake, crowley, anger, cameron, laffoley, and others. let’s check out their website

what’s this? a flash-only splash page? evil
the entire front page is images, no text? evil
the press release for the show is just a scan of the handout? evil
hours not listed anywhere on the site? evil
it’s on sunset blvd right by beverly hills? evil
once you get there, the only thing to mark it as the place you’re going to is small white print on the black glass doors? evil
absolutely no names, titles, or numbers description next to any painting? evil
programs hidden at the back of the gallery? evil
program not containing anything but author names, titles, and mediums of paintings? evil
no way to link which painting is which in the program other than by guesstimating position from ones you recognize? evil
actually displaying crowley’s slightly kindergardenish painting skills? evil
yes indeed. yesterday i looked into the face of evil, and it was slightly confusing and inconvenient.

and for those (like me) who wondered how laffoley gets text onto his painting-like things, he uses sticker letters that he then clearcoats over

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also, amber got me an octopus in a jar. it’s sitting across on the other audio speaker across from the civet skull