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Transforming The Visual Into The Musical

Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, https://chiaroscurosantafe.com
Composer Ofer Ben-Amots was inspired in part by Santa Fe artist Bebe Krimmer's collage "Velocity of Rotation"

The Montage Music Society commissions and performs music composed in response to visual art, and every concert includes projections of the art that inspired the music being performed.  Pianist Debra Ayers and her Montage colleagues wanted to address the fear many people have of new music.  "Let's help the audience get their imaginations going, hearing music and seeing the visuals that inspired the music."  Montage has found that the experience changes the way audiences listen.

The Society will perform this month at a private home in Santa Fe and in early October at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell.

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.