by Peter Saltzman | Sep 15, 2020 | Piano Sketches
Painterly Space in Time Torrents of Rivulets With the low, slow, and even rhythm opening Peter’s piece I build the image from the bottom up with mostly large dark marks leading to the first high trill, which I am able to hit on cue with a burst from the canned air gun...
by Peter Saltzman | Jul 23, 2020 | Piano Sketches
Introducing Piano Sketches Painted music? Underscored painting? Actually both. It’s a different kind of improvised duet where artist Jeremy Harrison improvised a painting to my piano improvisations (Painted Music), or I improvise a piano piece to a video of...
by Peter Saltzman | Aug 12, 2020 | Piano Sketches
Intuiting the Musical Subtext Painting Figuratively Although this is the fourth color painting done with watercolor on plastic Yupo paper, it is my first attempt at painting figuratively to Peter’s music. Here the main challenge for me is to complete a (somewhat)...
by Peter Saltzman | Aug 14, 2020 | Piano Sketches
Minimal Blues in Black and White Buddha Board Takes Beating You will notice in this video-painting that the Buddha Board has taken a beating, the result of numerous experiments with tools for manipulating the medium. I learned that things like metal palette knives can...
by Peter Saltzman | Aug 26, 2020 | Piano Sketches
Trippy 1970s Vibe Prepping for Paint I find myself recording these improvisations with Jeremy in mind. As in, what would a painter do with this? Specifically, I wanted to give him something rhythmic to mess with. And more poppy. The aAsymmetric part, which you can...
by Peter Saltzman | Aug 26, 2020 | Piano Sketches
The Afterlife of a Paint Stroke Afterlife After what I considered a failure to work with color on traditional watercolor paper (the process is slow), I remembered that tucked away in a drawer in my studio was a pad of plastic Yupo paper. This turns out to work very...