BRING THE NOISE: A View Into Hip-Hop and Art (BRING THE NOISE: A VIEW INTO HIP-HOP AND ART)

Abstract

William Griffin aka (Rakim ), one half of the rap duo, Eric B and Rakim put these words to his creative process as a hip-hop artist. There is much of the same feeling in my work, and it is apparent that I am not the first artist to think about the relationship between music and art or how the two share similar qualities when describing them. Romare Bearden drew from the contemporary music of his time, creating his own jazz music. (Fine, p.145) I think it is likely that music fed Bearden's visual creativity and caused his inner responses to manifest themselves visually . Peter Abbs writes about recognizing the actual moment of aesthetic experience across the arts. He breaks down the aesthetic experience into six areas that range from the initial experience of being overwhelmed, to the natural desire to share this experience with others that may or may not have been present (Abbs, p.78). It is in this final area, I believe my experiences with music move me to an outward visual response based on auditory stimuli. It seems to be a feeling that most share from some type of aesthetic experience in some other form of art. My relationship to hiphop music and its global effect on pop culture now fuels my artwork. The body of work I have been preparing while attending the MFA program at Indiana State University has led me to think about the influence music has had on me. (Scratch 2)