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Sound To Pictures Vol 1\u00a0(2017 – Classical)<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u201cWhat has been created here is one of the finest instrumental albums I\u2019ve heard in a very long time. Frankly, you couldn\u2019t find a more perfect album for a little self-isolation escapism.\u201d<\/em> Adam Jenkins, FATEA Magazine<\/h3>\n

Sounds to Pictures began as a collaboration with my dear friend Jonathan Hill \u2013 a world class violin soloist who has provided strings on almost all my albums.\u00a0 I\u2019d always wanted to separate the classical elements from my songs from the lyrics so that I could really enjoy the melodic motifs and musical themes that I felt were hidden by my voice.\u00a0 Allowing Jonathan to take the lead re-invented the landscape of my songs and in turn, inspired me to write new bespoke pieces for him to record.\u00a0 The Sounds to Pictures series of albums is an eclectic mix of musical genres comprising of both new and older compositions of mine recorded on a collection of priceless and historic instruments, including a 1697 Antonio Stradivari.<\/h3>\n

Sound enriches our lives in so many ways and today, music itself is being used in a supporting role for almost every image we see.\u00a0 In a supporting role. But what happens when we give sound the leading role? What occurs when we close our eyes to create our own pictures instead of blindly believing everything we see?<\/h3>\n

The project invites people to find their own pictures to the music rather than have those pictures prescribed for them, to discover, to explore and be free to have the sound inspire pictures unique to every listener.<\/h3>\n

Sound is an opportunity to harness the power of our own imagination and connect to what is deep inside of us.\u00a0 We launched the project with a series of online events exploring an AIS (Auditory Imagination Supplement).\u00a0 You can experience Sounds To Pictures in the way we intended by watching the first AIS video below.<\/h3>\n

Constellations is the third volume in Tim Arnold\u2019s Sounds to Pictures series and a project that explores dreaming with artist and dreamer Kate Alderton.
\nIn a new creative process exploring dreams, synchronicity and what Tim terms as \u2018action composing\u2019, the ten compositions were each written on ten different nights, over the space of ten\u00a0weeks. Tim started to write each new piece after finishing a telephone conversation about dreams with Kate.
\nAs Kate entered sleep and dreams on the south coast of England, Arnold, would begin to compose a new piece of music back in London, while she dreamt. At the end of the ten-week process, violinist Jonathan Hill joined Tim to build on the musical arrangements and record the violin passages.\u2028Once Tim had completed the recording of the album, Kate listened to the album as she slept and used her dreams to create collages, resulting in the original album artwork.<\/p>\n

The album is led by Jonathan on violin, with all other instrumentation performed by Tim, and Kate joining for two tracks on Singing Bowls.<\/p>\n