“All of their reactions to it is totally valid, and there is no right way to think about these things” Composer, painter, bassoonist, shakuhachi player, and old friend Devon Osamu Tipp joins me in a nearly 3-hour discussion on music, art, film and so much more. He goes into detail about his creative and collaborative process, focusing on his recent work creating "audio scores." We also check out his Etsy account and talk about his creative process as a painter vs. composer in episode 10 of the Making Noise Podcast.
Shaped by sonic sensitivity from a young age, Pittsburgh based composer/performer/artist Devon Osamu Tipp creates unorthodox musical environments from ostensibly incompatible realms. Tipp’s music draws influence from his Japanese and Eastern European roots, his experiences as a jeweler and painter, improvisations with plants, and his studies of gagaku and hogaku in Japan and the US. His work focuses on rhythmic and timbral transmutation of cyclical materials, ranging from the orchestral, to string basses prepared with honey stirrers, to concerti for traditional Japanese instruments. His compositions have been performed in the US, Europe, Australia, China and Japan.
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