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In the realistic to the abstract transition, a group of painters in Munich joined “Der Blaue Reiter” (The Blue Rider) as a reaction to the work of Wassily Kadinsky refusal of an exhibition. Work that is not natural, not real, ahead of its time, automatic visits of foreign and strange. Kadinsky sympathizers are taking a risk by generating the things that are not visible when looking from a real object, by showing exactly what the reality behind the object in person by the emotions the artist. So, the cow can be yellow (“Die gelbe Kuh”) as described Franz Marc; and in 1911, the yellow cow is “madness”.

“Mad cow jumping here and there”, according to Henning Sieverts, bassist-celloist Munich who works closely group “Der Blaue Reiter” almost 100 years later by then appreciate the casting composition. Sieverts reaction to mad cow-Marc is to translate BSE (medical abbreviation for mad cow disease) as the main melody of a 12 bar blues. BSE is considered as a code notation: B, Eb (E moll or read Es), and E are the chromosomes of this blues. Not stop at his bar 12 alone, there were 12 barrel (half-tones) is also a melodic B-Eb-E go in pitch different to build a whole series of this song. Code is repeatedly by mad cow (BSE) hidden neatly in a step slow blues. Sieverts was fond encrypted. Contrary to see “behind the reality”, the encoding of reality to hide behind something tangible. Read the rest of this entry »