Traveling Museum & Music Video idea
Bacchanalian Dance
As I watched he appeared to be fashioning a tiny thing of matchless beauty, but the figure actually grew before my very eyes into a powerful drama, a sublime epic, a devastating satire. "How free he seems!" I whispered to myself. "Such a man could never be restrained by the shackles of a formal philosophy. His mind is forever darting from star to star, from deep night into midday, from grief to orgies of wild laughter". (Reprinted from "Louis Rosenthal, Sculptor", The Jewish Times)
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I have an idea for a music video for a singer-songwriter/musician that could feature my grandfather’s miniature sculptures that he created in the 1920’s. The miniatures expand a vast terrain – biblical, mythological, musical, historical, love, satire, etc. Open territory for a prolific songwriter. Continued below.... |
Based on this idea of an as yet unknown song, perhaps an environment could be filmed/depicted featuring the miniatures larger than life, perhaps somewhat animated. “The Butterflies” is only one inch in height. For instance, one butterfly could ‘fly in’ to join the other. An audience watching the music video would have no clear indication of the true size of the sculptures or their reality. Perhaps this environment is one in which the musician would wander through or be seen within (i.e., Series of Dreams).
At the end of the music video, two things can be revealed: One - you can show an artist, a sculptor, perhaps the musician acting in a fictional scene sitting in his art studio, alone, basically portraying a sculptor, working on creating a miniature as The Butterflies and other miniatures sit on the table around him. Two - the audience would then see the true reality and the true size of the miniatures. It would be revealed that yes, the miniatures are real but they were not what the audience was expecting. They are fixed sculptures; static, unmoving.
Further, it could reveal metaphorically the artist who gave birth to this perceived reality. It could depict the sculptor at work creating the environment that the audience of the music video just traversed through; an artist creating this reality. The miniature sculptures are another world in and of themselves and although an audience may casually think in the beginning of the video (maybe based on lyrical content) that ‘their questions will be answered’; they soon discover after the video has ended that they are left with bigger questions. (In fact, they don't even know what their original questions are anyhow). Overall, the musician and this entire music video concept would remain an enigma.
(No, the musician is not the sculptor of these pieces. That is just a glitch in the matrix to figure out as there is yet no story, no content, no song. It’s all about delivery. In movies, a screenplay is a delivery device for a story and a good song is about delivery, not content. So, I guess I am delivering a package that has nothing inside it; at the moment.
On the Biography Page (halfway down the page) is a fictional piece I wrote depicting my grandfather at work,(newspaper covering the table, fingers covered in wax, penknife in hand, music playing in the background, building up these little figures from nothing; from wax…one at a time as other miniatures he has already given birth to sit on the table silently around him).
A scene could be inserted in the music video showing the sculptor acquiring material items; a shop owner assisting the sculptor on making a selection on a penknife; another shop owner assisting the sculptor on buying wax; an unaware newspaper man selling a newspaper to the sculptor; all unaware of an intricate web; a design; that each person played a role in the creation of this artistic world that has no physical locality.
Traveling Museum: The Little Museum in the Lobby:
Internationally renowned miniature sculptures could complement a musician on tour by being displayed in the lobby/foyer at his concerts. It could be set up as a little traveling museum. Patrons may view the museum in the lobby before and after the concert. Donations are optional and all donations received to view the museum can go to a charity of the musician’s choice.
Bottom line: “The Little Museum in the Lobby” is a little appetizer before the main event whose sole purpose would be to open people up, allow them to peer into that place where creativity springs from.
This concept may not raise a ton of money per venue, but to me it is the thought that counts. It will raise awareness of the charity of the musician’s choice. I’ve always envisioned my grandfather’s miniatures being surrounded by music as well as to surround music with art. And as an audience saunters through the lobby it would enable them to travel to the core of the creative process as a preamble to the show. Just a thought….
At the end of the music video, two things can be revealed: One - you can show an artist, a sculptor, perhaps the musician acting in a fictional scene sitting in his art studio, alone, basically portraying a sculptor, working on creating a miniature as The Butterflies and other miniatures sit on the table around him. Two - the audience would then see the true reality and the true size of the miniatures. It would be revealed that yes, the miniatures are real but they were not what the audience was expecting. They are fixed sculptures; static, unmoving.
Further, it could reveal metaphorically the artist who gave birth to this perceived reality. It could depict the sculptor at work creating the environment that the audience of the music video just traversed through; an artist creating this reality. The miniature sculptures are another world in and of themselves and although an audience may casually think in the beginning of the video (maybe based on lyrical content) that ‘their questions will be answered’; they soon discover after the video has ended that they are left with bigger questions. (In fact, they don't even know what their original questions are anyhow). Overall, the musician and this entire music video concept would remain an enigma.
(No, the musician is not the sculptor of these pieces. That is just a glitch in the matrix to figure out as there is yet no story, no content, no song. It’s all about delivery. In movies, a screenplay is a delivery device for a story and a good song is about delivery, not content. So, I guess I am delivering a package that has nothing inside it; at the moment.
On the Biography Page (halfway down the page) is a fictional piece I wrote depicting my grandfather at work,(newspaper covering the table, fingers covered in wax, penknife in hand, music playing in the background, building up these little figures from nothing; from wax…one at a time as other miniatures he has already given birth to sit on the table silently around him).
A scene could be inserted in the music video showing the sculptor acquiring material items; a shop owner assisting the sculptor on making a selection on a penknife; another shop owner assisting the sculptor on buying wax; an unaware newspaper man selling a newspaper to the sculptor; all unaware of an intricate web; a design; that each person played a role in the creation of this artistic world that has no physical locality.
Traveling Museum: The Little Museum in the Lobby:
Internationally renowned miniature sculptures could complement a musician on tour by being displayed in the lobby/foyer at his concerts. It could be set up as a little traveling museum. Patrons may view the museum in the lobby before and after the concert. Donations are optional and all donations received to view the museum can go to a charity of the musician’s choice.
Bottom line: “The Little Museum in the Lobby” is a little appetizer before the main event whose sole purpose would be to open people up, allow them to peer into that place where creativity springs from.
This concept may not raise a ton of money per venue, but to me it is the thought that counts. It will raise awareness of the charity of the musician’s choice. I’ve always envisioned my grandfather’s miniatures being surrounded by music as well as to surround music with art. And as an audience saunters through the lobby it would enable them to travel to the core of the creative process as a preamble to the show. Just a thought….
