Three Kings
Mixed media
Three Kings is a triptych that celebrates the work of three electronic instrument pioneers: Tadao Kikumoto, Robert Moog, and Roger Linn. These inventors are amongst my heroes. Almost every piece of music produced in the last 25 years that includes either a synthesizer, a sample, or a drum machine, owes it's sound in no small way to the work of at least one, if not all three, of these pioneers. The artwork is a three panel multi-media piece, produced by:
- Painting iconographic likenesses of each engineer on separate canvases
- Attaching thousands of electronic parts to the canvases, reminiscent of the medieval mosaic style
- Professionally lighting and photographing each panel
- Drum scanning the resulting transparencies at maximum resolution
- Digitally touching up each panel
- Making gallery quality canvas prints
A massive print of this work is currently on display at halcyon the shop, 57 Pearl Street, in Dumbo/Brooklyn. It has been featured at MatrixSynth and SonicState.