Music has become a constant companion to our daily lives. There is no escaping it. In elevators, in waiting rooms, in restaurants, and through ear buds, our lives are lived with a soundtrack as background noise. Visual artists are no different than the rest of us. It is not unusual for them to have music playing as background in their studios as they create, but some artists have embraced the challenge of making music the core of their creative process by turning the music into visual manifestations.

Their approach can be as direct as an artist transposing a specific piece of music into an artwork or an instrument into a sculpture or as obtuse as using a natural phenomenon-stars in the sky or the edge of a rock formation - to create notes on a staff. Some involve a composer using pictographic notation to create a musical score or to illustrate a traditional score with an internal form of notation.

The variety in this exhibition is as extensive as the mediums presented: painting, assemblage, glass, sculpture and video. There is even a kite! Through the artists’ explorations of this theme, the exhibition hopes to broaden the viewer’s perception of how music can inspire the making of art as well as to open them to the vast variety of ways in which to visualize it.