Origin of Sound Painting

Pejman Tadayon is a painter and musician born in 1977 in Isfahan (IRAN). Started to learn painting from the age of three under suprvision of his grandfather, Morteza Sharifi one of the most well known painters in Isfahan.He contiued studying painting under great mastroes such as Morteza Nasr and Akbar Mikhak. Later on in his life,he became interested in learning the principles of Persian classical music as well as Playing tar and setar by Kamran Keivan, Behrooz Hemati and Maestro Mohamad Reza Lotfi.In 2002 he moved to Italy and continued his study in Florence and Rome fine Art Academy where he studied painting and Medeval music of Europe.Years of studying and living in the art capital of the world helped Pejman to hold numerous concert and exhibit his paintings in various cities in countries such as Germany, Italy, France, Portugo, Spain and United States.In his works,Pejman tries to explore and express the relationship between music and painting.And for the first time in the world of art he has succeeded to create painting which produces sounds.He uses musical instruments strings in his paintings and the observer of his paintings is able to play tunes on each painting which enables him or her to undrestand and hear the sound of the moods of each work.In many of his concerts he exhibit his paintings on the stage where music becomes painting and you could also hear the sound of paintings.A place to listen to the sound of patterns and colours...