CREATIVITY and MAKING: Richter

As I was watching Hans Richter’s Rythmus 21, the silence added to the imagery I saw. My own mind added in its own sounds that coupled the “going” and “coming” shapes. First, I thought of a kazoo sound, of sorts. A long drawn out “zoooOOOO” when “coming” and a “ZOOooo” when “going”. Then, my roommate started to use an electric shaver, and my mind used that noise instead of the kazoo for the “coming” and “going” shapes.

It’s interesting how we perceive things when there is one sense lacking in a work of art. Our mind adds imagery if there is only sound. Our mind connects sound if there is only moving imagery. This was fascinating to me.

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