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Our collaboration began totally spontaneously with a talk about the potential interpenetration of music and painting. We wondered to what extent the laws governing musical compositions and fine arts can be shared by both fields. Can connotations in music become connotations in fine arts as well?

The first Blue Fugue version originated in the Laboratoire Village Nomade in La Corbi?re, Switzerland, whose program includes the exchange of ideas among artists of different fields (music, fine arts, film, etc.).

Our ruminations on the idea of time itself has become a significant issue to us, not only because of the obvious inherent time attribute of music or an important factor of time flow when painting watercolors, the rhythm of which is largely determined by the paper drying process, but, most of all, because of the time devoted to communicating with each other which we did by means of sounds and various forms of fine arts. Since September 2007 we had been exchanging thoughts, watercolors and recordings, that gradually transformed themselves into a more and more clear form presented for the first time on June 15, 2008, in the Oko Ucho Gallery in Poznań, Poland. This album provides the documentation of that event.

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Oko Ucho Gallery June 15, 2008
piano improvisation 16'03

watercolour on paper, framed 140 x 1200 x 26 cm

Misa Shimomura was born in 1977 in Mie, Japan. She is a pianist, composer and musical improviser. Between 1999 and 2006, together with the violinist Saikou Miyajima, she co-created the Kyoto underground band "THIS=MISAxSAIKOU" which occupied itself with musical improvisations. The band is the subject of Ayako Mogi's film "Ask the Wind" that won an award at the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival in Switzerland. In 2006 she played the piano in the Thomas Readelsheimer's film "Touch the Sound" and, since then, she has focused on her solo works "Triangle Book", 2007 and "7 Colors", 2008. Currently, Ms. Shimomura works as a sound editor of a Ayako Mogi's film "Silent Color Silent Voice" and actively participates in the art project "Laboratoire Village Nomade" in Switzerland.

Homepage: Misa Shimomura.

Mikołaj Poliński was born in 1977 in Poznań, Poland. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002 he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is a founder of Naprzeciw Gallery and currently manages the Aneks Gallery, both in Poznań. His selected works on the theme of musical composition are: "Twelve Tone Series" UdK Berlin, 2001, "Mechanics of Heaven" Muzalewska Gallery, Poznań, 2003, Daiwa RF Viewing Room, Hiroshima, 2005, "Counterpoint" Oko Ucho Gallery, Poznań, 2006, and "Seven Tone Series" Tonangeben, Ackerstr. 18, Berlin, 2007.

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