Ali Barker
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Ali Barker creates visual representations of music and sound in colour, inspired by her experiences of the phenomenon of sound-colour synaesthesia. When Ali listens to music, she perceives notes of the musical scale as specific colours, expressing these through abstract paintings. Ali is also an orchestral musician in her spare time, playing violin and viola. The music that she performs inspires some of her paintings; other works are inspired by the wide range of music she listens to, or by music chosen by a client for a commission.
Ali often works with patterns and geometric forms, creating works derived from translations of the written music or analysis of recorded sounds. Other paintings are expressive synaesthetic responses, made by directly applying the colours to the paper or canvas while listening to a specific piece of music, or a combination of these styles.
Ali completed her MA in Fine Art in 2019, with a body of work focusing on the relationship between the orchestra and the soloist in a concerto, highlighting the complexity of music but extracting key themes from the musical structure.
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The Freedom of Birdsong: 11am, back garden, 9.5.20 (Synaesthesia 188)
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The Freedom of Birdsong: 4am chorus, 26.5.20 (Synaesthesia 187)
£175.00 -
Prelude in C (Synaesthesia 6)
£40.00 -
Handel: Zadok the Priest (Synaesthesia 182)
£175.00 -
The Freedom of Birdsong: Blackbirds, 24.5.20 (Synaesthesia 180)
£175.00 -
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus (Synaesthesia 183)
£175.00 -
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, 1st movement (Synaesthesia 185)
£175.00 -
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2, 3rd movement (Synaesthesia 184)
£175.00 -
Vivaldi: Gloria (Synaesthesia 181)
£225.00 -
Ravel: Bolero (S151)
£95.00 -
Let It Go (S154)
£95.00 -
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 1st movement, Finale (Synaesthesia 174)
£500.00 -
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 1st movement, First Theme (Synaesthesia 173)
£150.00 -
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 1st movement, Introduction (Synaesthesia 172)
£150.00 -
Livin’ on a Prayer (Synaesthesia 171) [after Bon Jovi]
£195.00 -
Always (Synaesthesia 170) [after Bon Jovi]
£195.00 -
Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night (Synaesthesia 169) [after Bon Jovi]
£195.00 -
Sibelius Violin concerto, 1st movement (Synaesthesia 168)
£395.00 -
First Theme Variation 1 (Synaesthesia 156)
£150.00 -
Rotterdam or Anywhere, Liverpool or Rome (Synaesthesia 165) [after The Beautiful South]
£195.00 -
Three Lions (Synaesthesia 164) [after The Lightning Seeds]
£195.00 -
Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Synaesthesia 163)
£95.00 -
Two Tribes (Synaesthesia 162)
£95.00 -
The Life of Riley (Synaesthesia 160)
£95.00 -
Relax (Synaesthesia 161)
£95.00