Fine Art
Gary L. Steele, a performer, composer, and artist, brings the creative evolution of music composition to three-dimensional design in plain and 3D surface drawings. As a classical trained performer and composer, my art presents the transition of a composition form, sounding two melodic lines simultaneously. This method is called counterpoint. The word comes from the Latin punctus contra punctum, meaning “point against point”. Contrapuntal music is that which has two or more melodic lines sounding simultaneously, in contrast to one another, essentially linear music. That is, the composer intends for the listener to perceive these sounds as concurrent melodies-horizontal lines of music. The sounds are not to be thought of vertically as chords, even though the harmonies are produced as the counter point progresses.