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“Drawing Music”. Lecture at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, London. Steam Symposium. The Big Draw

Drawing Music from David Moraton on Vimeo.

Some live footage of the presentation

In 2016 I was invited to participate in the Big Draw Steam Symposium to make a presentation about the role that drawing played in my art practice. At the time I was in New Zealand, so I had to make a video presentation that was projected in the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, London. I think it’s a very good summary of the essence of my latest synaesthetic videos so that’s why I have decided to post it.

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Tristan and Isolde, Prelude , Live Performance with the London Orchestra of the City

I had the honor to collaborate with the London Orchestra of the City, conducted by Chris Hopkins, to visualize the Prelude of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, as part of performances taken place at the International Art Festival #Tribe17.
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“Weaving Light and Space”, in Wellington

It’s an honour to be part of an exhibition with the great artist Beata Kozlowska. In Wellington, we will be showing our latest works next week, from the 5th to the 11th of December 2016 at the Thistle Hall Centre.

Opening:
5 December, 6.30pm – 9.00pm

Opening hours:
Tues – Sun, 10.00am – 6.00pm

“Weaving Light and Space” is a first New Zealand based collaborative art exhibition by two visual artists with artistic careers in the UK: Beata Kozlowska and David Moraton.
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“Visus Sonitus I” at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

I am so happy to participate in theThe 2016 Big Draw Festival, held this September 22nd 2016 at The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, UK, where I will be exhibiting  my video “Visus Sonitus I” and also my lecture at the Winner’s Gala of the Lumen Prize 2015

Press Release here

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“Theatre of Colour and Movement”, collaboration of David Moraton with Beata Kozlowska, Toi Poneke Art Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

Theatre of colour and movement, is a collaborative project made in Toi Poneke Art Centre  betweeen Beata Kozlowska and I.  Our collaboration revolves around the concept of interdependence as we are showing how two artists can fully blend Continue reading “Theatre of Colour and Movement”, collaboration of David Moraton with Beata Kozlowska, Toi Poneke Art Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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Einojuhani Rautavaara: RIP

I am so devastated to know about Einojuhani Rautavaara’s death…

My admiration for Einojuhani will always be alive, I will be eternally grateful for having had the chance to meet him, it will remain one of the most important moments of my life. As I have always felt our arts are vibrating by the same wavelength.

His Music will always exist inspiring and uplifting souls of present and future generations and my drive to honour his Art in a visual way has never been stronger. The second and third movement of “Cantus Arcticus” will have their visual equivalent.

RIP Maestro

 

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Interview in Chrom-Art

I recently had the opportunity to participate at the TRIBE#15 Art Festival in London.

There I projected this video-mapping
“Explorers” videomapping

Chrom-Art co-founder, Javier Melian,  organiser of the event, asked me a few questions.

It’s a very good read to know more about my art.

Better than the Real Thing – Meet David Moraton
03 Sep Artist · Interviews · Chrom-Art · TRIBE15 · 3D
By Javier Melian – Chrom-Art.org co-founder

David Moraton is the video artist of the moment. He is currently focused on three-dimensional videos that are a faithful reflect of Contemporary Classical Music. David has a perceptual condition called synaesthesia. This means that when he hears sounds he gets to see involuntarily colours in his mind. So in his practice David projects this very personal chromatic experience of music and sound, as well as his philosophical vision of Nature.

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Perspectivism

A mid gray color surrounded by black.
Same mid gray color, surrounded by white.

The mid gray color is the same in both cases, but looks brighter surrounded by black.
Yet it’s all a perception, an illusion.
We believe the illusion that we arr different, we feel different, depending on our life situation.

But the truth is, we  remain in essence exactly the same.
We are not defined by the external, neither in space, nor in time.

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Good good, very good!

Tschuang-Tse was a very rare apparition, a unique mystic in history of humankind. He brought, developed and spread Lao-Tse’s ideas throughout China. But in the dorf where he spent his last years, he was considered by many people a crazy old man.
Maybe this was because when someone spoke to him, he just answered, even before the other ended his sentence, “good good very good”.That’s why the situation was sometimes very embarrasing, as he didn’t hear at all even if someone was tellin Continue reading Good good, very good!

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Satori

Finally I finished ‘Satori’, video and photographs exposed until end of December at the Center of Visitors in La Gomera. In the press section there are some articles about the exhibition and the I Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands where it’s integered.

‘Satori’ is a Japanese word that literally means ‘to understand’, and it’s used in the scope of the Zen and the Tantra to denominate a special moment of ‘illumination’ of the conscience. It is arrived through an intimate meditative process of communion with the world, without mediation of the thought. This way, an expansive movement begins that extends througout the borders of the ego, to get to experience a cathartic, oceanic feeling, of union with the Universe.

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Synesthaesia

I’d like to show my list of colours for vowels and letters, which I have always seen withouth will or effort, by thinking or writing them.
A: gray white, B: orange yellow, C: dark grey with violet hue, D: light grey with blue hue, E: middle green, F: dark violet blue, G: light blue, H: very clear grey, I: pure yellow, J: clear red, K: dark violet, L: light yellow, M: ultramarine blue, N: sky blue, O: brilliant white, P: marfil white, Q: grey white, R: red brown, S: golden yellow, T: wood-red, U: orange, V: yellow orange, W: intense orange, X: dark grey, Y: golden oker, Z: difused white, 1: clear grey, 2: yellow, 3: brown-red, 4: light yellow, 5: dark violet blue, 6: light blue grey, 7: red-wood, 8: dark brown, 9: orange, 0: brilliant white

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