The beauty of music as an art form lies in the never-ending opportunities to push boundaries and explore new territories. PARMA artist Rain Worthington’s recent artistic expeditions follow the same exploratory curve, as she examines the possibilities in which the emotional impact of music and sculptural spaces could be mutually transformative.
Worthington joins us on the PARMA blog today to share insight on how she embarked on her new multimedia path along with two sculptural visualizations of works from her Navona Records catalog, Shadows of the Wind from PASSAGES THROUGH TIME and Reversing Mirrors in the Quiet from DREAM VAPORS.
Intersections Between Music and Sculptural Spaces
Rain Worthington: As a composer and a re-engaged sculptural artist, I am committed to the belief that creative expression is an elemental impulse of human nature and essential to humanity. I am drawn toward the transcendent power of music and visual arts and believe in the potency of awe to inspire compassionate emotional responses and deepen an understanding of human interconnectedness.
My creative life has been a non-linear “work in progress” of mysterious cycles, twists and turns, and surprising overlaps. Following a self-directed creative path, I’ve drawn artistic expression from a diverse influences, intuition and emotion.
Recently to help absorb the staggering complexities and emotions of these times, I felt a need to explore additional tangents for expression, in tandem with my music composition. Turning to visual art mediums, my impulses led me to re-embrace an earlier passion for sculptural spaces. My vision is to create contemplative, illuminated sculptural installations that resonate with my music tapping into a deep primal fluidity of subliminal connections and emotional responses.
My artistic process has now expanded into creating “still life” model stagings and concept video renderings for sculptural installations that incorporate illumination and kinetic elements, with excerpts of music from my catalog of PARMA recordings.
As I embark in this new multi-disciplinary direction, it’s exhilarating to envision ways in which my music could intersect with sculptural environments and the possibilities in which the emotional impact of both the music and the sculptural spaces could be mutually transformative.
In composing, I tap into an emotional aural reservoir to create an intuitive soundscape of musical elements to engage the listener in a sonic journey. As a temporal art form, music is an emotional reveal through a specific span of time.
Now, re-embracing my earlier artistic explorations in the realm of visual arts, I am drawn again into a similar reservoir of subliminal emotional responses, this time connecting with various qualities of materials and light that convey an ephemeral fluidity – of space, form, and line.
Unlike the multimedia experience in which two electronic mediums are merged, I’m interested in exploring the intersection between the visceral physicality of sculptural spaces and the temporality of music. Like the fusion of music and immersive spaces that exists in spiritual settings, I want to create environments where the experience of listening to music is energized through the physical elements of a site-specific setting. And, in turn, the physical setting is infused with, and transformed by, the temporal nature of music.
I am excited to be moving into this new creative realm and am looking forward to bringing these concepts to full-scale and, I hope, awe-inspiring realizations.
Rain Worthington
Believing that creativity is an elemental and essential part of human nature, Rain Worthington has followed her own instinctive path. Self-taught and cross-disciplinary, her creative impulses include concert music and sculptural spaces for attentive reflection.
