I'm learning how to make movies - here is a recent sample. I made a screen capture of quick drawing from my iPad, made with the Paper app from 53, used Garageband (also on the iPad) to record and quickly edit an improvised guitar piece. I used iMovie to edit them together, and here is the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c0tIxGNRKM&feature=youtu.be
As I was writing the caption I tried to say a bit about the correlation between the music and the drawing - in my mind, instrumental guitar playing has some of the same elements as drawing or painting does. In visual art, I start with a neutrally colored space, either black, white, or some other color, and into that space I add lines and shapes, building them up layer upon layer. Sometimes they resolve into an image, sometimes they remain somewhat abstract.
The musical equivalent, in my own esthetic practice, is that when playing the guitar, I create a ground of chords and rhythm over which the more intricate notes of the melody are built up, layer by layer. Sometimes those notes coalesce into a song, but sometimes they remain in the realm of abstract expression.
In both cases, I am speak a language that doesn't partake of words for the most part. Even so, there is a vocabulary in use which communicates, but there is no accurate way to translate them through words - it just has to be seen or heard.
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