The Tondichtung & Tone Poem series are music stands made in tandem with the Inkling Scores. The German term “Tondichtung” refers to an orchestral composition that seeks to express extra-musical ideas in music – usually in a single continuous movement that evokes the content of a poem, short story, painting, landscape, or other non-musical source. “Tone Poem” is the English translation of the term. In making the Inkling Scores, presentation became a source of inspiration for me to rethink the visual & sculptural function of stands & shelves as integral to the interpretation of sound. Each Tondichtung & Tone Poem is crafted from trees downed by storm or disease. 

The Inkling series of visual scores are handmade books. Details descriptions are included with other images.