Beyond Transposition

La Rousserolle effarvatte

PhD
Harriet Carter
PhD
2022
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#PhD
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Research process, watercolour on tracing paper.
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Exposition shot 1: Sound recordings undertaken in France 2019
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Exposition shot 2: Painting(s) towards ‘La Rousserolle effarvatte’
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Exposition shot 3: Painting(s) towards ‘La Rousserolle effarvatte’
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Exposition shot 4 Painting(s) towards ‘La Rousserolle effarvatte’
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Research process, watercolour on tracing paper.
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Harriet Carter, Étang de Vaccarès, 2021. Acrylic, oil, watercolour, graphite, and charcoal on wooden panels, 105 x 210cm.
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Research process, oil on wooden panel

Beyond Transposition

This exposition is the culmination of four years of Harriet Carter’s doctoral research that articulates the complexity of transposition between the auditory and the visual. Specifically, she questions the extent that transposition operates between the intangible ephemera of an embodied birdsong encounter and tangible material processes in painting through an analysis of Olivier Messiaen’s birdsong transcriptions that inform his epic piano piece Catalogue d’oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds). By conceptualising mark-making as a […]

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Rebecca Morris
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