Musica Practica - MrHass

Illustration of woman composing sheet music on a piano amalgamated with a typewriter.

Illustration of woman composing sheet music on a piano amalgamated with a typewriter.

Musica Practica

(2020) Kapsule [Postgrad]

In his essay ‘Musica Practica’, Roland Barthes (1915–1980) foregrounded the composer as one whose work is not only only for listening, but is offered as something to be operated with, covered, and configured anew.

A note whistled from Posterboy becomes a convenient perch for his feathered companion Lapi.

With a chisel-tip marker, a young girl pulls a line of red ink across the surface of an A4 drawing pad.

With an oboe held diagonally across her body, a young girl in a long red dress is poised to play. Illustrated poster artwork for World Music Day.

A spectacled character with a back-turned cap holds up a giant computer pointer, arguably the most active icon in visual communication online.

A floral assortment emerges from an artist's palette and paint brushes.

The creative thoughts of a young girl are augmented by the circuitry of an AI neural network.

With crayons in hand, a young girl uses an upright easel and canvas to draw a large picture of herself.

Tucked in the beak of a bewildered homing bird, a hand-written list is flown through the air

Masked and with his typical whistle, Posterboy brushes a wall with paste ready to hang up his printed posters.

A mallard stands poised in high heels and accessories.

An infantry soldier with a warped combat helmet becomes the subject of a paper craft cutting

An array of herbs and vegetables are sent flying from the colander of a headless chef.

Sat amid the trees in his pull wagon, Posterboy uses traditional mark-making tools to draw up the new artwork to be hung.

An anthropomorphised tree stands smiling with red leaves abloom

A rooster stood upon the screen of an upturned smartphone crows in the dawn light.

J Card design for the Posterboy Mixtape

A polar bear drifts upon a floe of ice.

An infant learns to play the xylophone.

A giant fish is cradled by an astonished fisherman.

A man tends to the foliage upon his indoor plant stand.

As a red pencil is turned within a green sharpener, its shavings curl in the shape of a flower head.

A tall man with a bucket of white paint brushes a smiley face onto an open A-board.

Emerging from silhouette, the hands of a man are entwined in the chain of a swinging pocket watch.

A double bass player taps on computer keys that lay where his bass strings would ordinarily be found.