What does geometry sound like? What does music look like? Revealing a place where music and geometry fuse, A Hidden Order is an art exhibition with live performances created by digital artist Sama Mara and composer Lee Westwood.

The Exhibition will be open on March 20, 2014 and will run until March 28, 2014 at The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts Gallery in London. The exhibition is comprised of a series of prints, animation and an interactive platform, plus musical performance with real-time visualisation (March 20 and March 27).

By combining ancient principles of geometry, modern mathematics and digital technology, Sama Mara has developed a revolutionary system in which rhythm is pattern and notes are colours, creating intricate geometric artworks that are the direct expression of music.

Lee Westwood’s contemporary compositions, written specially for the exhibition, with rhythmic and melodic influences from folk and jazz, are performed by a mixed ensemble. Visitors to the exhibition can directly explore this new theory interactively, allowing them to create rhythms and see them instantly converted into the visual realm.

We are first met by silence. Then from out of the void a sound emerges and with it a colour and shape. The sound becomes a rhythm, and we are quickly surrounded by a swirling pattern, building in form and complexity, gradually revealing a hidden order.

Applying principles of ancient geometry, Islamic art and contemporary mathematics, Sama Mara’s ground-breaking theory reveals an intrinsic relationship between the harmony of sound (music) and the harmony of space (pattern). Rhythm, pitch and timbre are transformed into pattern, colour and texture. This concept has been applied into a bespoke computer program allowing for real-time visualisation of live music, and the creation of breath-taking geometric artworks.

image A Hidden Order, screen image / Courtesy of the Artists

image A Hidden Order, screen image / Courtesy of the Artists

Sama Mara

Sama Mara was awarded the Barakat Trust Prize at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts where he graduated with an MA in Traditional Arts. He completed his BA in Music and Visual Performance in Brighton. Sama has developed skills in studio photography, video editing, programming, painting and music. He has conducted his own studies into Fractal Geometry and Quasi Crystals.

Lee Westwood

Lee Westwood is a composer and guitarist. His music draws influences from a wide field of cultures and traditions, including Modern Jazz, Folk from across Europe and the Americas, and the past 150 years of Contemporary Classical Music. Lee Westwood’s compositions are performed by an ensemble of flute (Philippe Barnes), cor anglais (Suzie Shrubb), marimba and percussion (Adam Bushell) and cello (Susie Winkworth).

The Prince's School of Traditional Arts

The Prince's School specialises in teaching, researching and promoting the practice and theory of the arts and crafts of the world's great traditions. Founded in 2004 by HRH The Prince of Wales as one of his core charities with members of the deaf community to explore this unique visual journey through music.

A Hidden Order is supported by Arts Council England and in association with The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts.


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