Samia A. Halaby, painter The Kinetic Painting Group improvises animated computer painting with sound. The moving abstraction is projected onto a theater-size screen while the painter plays the keyboard which creates the painting.
Musicians react to the visual signal as the painter reacts to the sounds.
Each work is an improvisational jamming of sound and image. The interaction is spontaneous and free within a chosen theme. This is neither a pictorial accompanyment to music nor a musical accompanyment to an animation. The two media interact to create the new formal ideas. You may read a brief description of the themes .