In this ongoing series, I translate music into drawings. Each drawing records impressions of live music made at gigs with a ball-point pen, which I later scan and invert on Photoshop. The descriptions record the musicians, venue and date.

I was inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ definition of aphorisms - “(the ear tells the eye where to look)” - to relate gesturally to sound, notably the collective atmospheres of attunement these musicians carve into silence. They encloak as they engage. It’s a synaesthetic call-and-response, a form of playing alongside which I undertake in free form, out of deep admiration and respect for the music they create. It’s also a way of exposing my capacity as a human to transduce neurological perception pathways we don’t yet have names for.