Threadle Animations 

In the video above, you'll hear a unique melody of the serial song  "Row Row Row Your Boat" performed by the Threadle choir.  ;)  The first time through, harmonies are sung in unison.  The second time, harmonies are staggered in a serial format, like the original song.  NOTE: The looping animation is a placeholder.  It will be replaced with an animation of that matches up with the melody similar like the other videos.

The melody was created by selecting a random row of 27 pixels from Kandinsky's Color Study and translating colors to numbers.  Scroll down to see color chart.

Kandinsky viewed music as the most sublime form of abstract art and believed his paintings could communicate certain sounds. “Color is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords,” he was quoted saying. “The artist is the hand, that by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.”

In the video above, you will hear the 7 notes of the diatonic scale followed by the 12 notes of the chromatic scale. As each note rings, the corresponding color/ thread spool rises up to a specific height based on hertz.  The thread spool animations make a light hearted connection to the many thread spool installations I created over the years.

Animation of Mark Knopfler's eight note riff from the song On Every Street

The color chart below contains interval numbers and note names/ letters that correspond to the colors of the 7 note diatonic scale 1-2-3-4-5-6-7. Five more colors are added in between to represent the sharps and flats of the 12 note chromatic scale.

Using color to link musical notes, numbers (1-2-3) and letters (A-B-C) is easy to learn because the human brain is already hard wired to make connections between the different senses. Color, sound, number, letter connections are just not well developed in most people (except for people who have Synesthesia). Think about the experience of hearing sounds and seeing imagery "in the real world" or "in your mind's eye." Our brains process the full range of sensory information as a unified, singular experience.

The idea for this new series of work came from the surprising speed in which my brain connected musical notes and interval numbers when I started color coding sheet music and guitar charts. The connections happened so quickly and effortlessly I knew it wasn't "Devorah" thing. It was a "brain" thing. This realization was the inspiration for this new series of art.

Art that Bridges the Universal Languages of Music, Math, and Color

In the time of the Ancient Greeks, music was not seen as an art but rather as a quantitative science that was used as a mathematical and philosophical description of how the universe was perceived to be constructed.