Letting Sound Play on Sight, and Vice Versa
By Ooi Kok Chuen
April 2021 PENANG PALETTE
TO PARAPHRASE SHAKESPEARE, “If music is the food of love, paint on.”Visual artists in Malaysia are faced with a widening spectrum of creative expressions, many of which are combinations of media. Some of them have been attuned to synthesising music into their art, achieving an intriguing cross-pollination of sight and sound. Their art-music collusion has over the years been producing fascinating patterns and spools. On one side, you have artists being inspired by music and incorporating that into their works...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
