The Music of Art

We can turn any song into art. What is this? Some might say that the image above is Modern Art inspired by Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Yaacov Agam or Damien Hurst. Others might say that it is just a series of rectangles of various widths and colors. It’s not Art because it does not depict anything; it’s just pattern.

However, it is more than colored rectangles. It is more than a picture or a pattern. It is Music. It is Music converted into Art. It’s Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. It is a cNOTE.TM

One could play Redemption Song by interpreting this cNOTE. TM Specifically, each rectangle represents a note. The rectangle’s color denotes pitch and its size represents duration. For instance, a blue square depicts a “full,” “D” note. The notes are arranged from left to right and top to bottom. It is similar to reading a page from a book. (See the ARTIST page for a detailed description of a cNOTE.)

Erik Rosen saw music while in the medical and opiate abyss of a stem cell transplant. There was no sound. Music manifested itself as an image in his hyper-sterilized hospital room. Seeing music is one incarnation of a phenomenon called synesthesia. It was burned into Erik's memory. It was a trip.

During his recovery, he often recalled the musical images in his mind. Erik attempted to reproduce these images in a physical form that others could experience. It was not as easy as he expected. He experimented with dozens of media, materials and processes. It took him six months to produce the "cNote" system, which accurately depicts the synesthetic vision of music that he saw in the hospital. "I was obsessed with this project," Erik said. "It was all that I could think about. I felt like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Nonetheless, every cNote still requires many hours of manual labor. Each musical note in a song must be manually inserted into the artistic piece. The song must then be transformed into an image. The objective is to strip away everything but the song's essence to reveal the music in its own, most appealing, light. Each cNote has its own characteristics and no two are the same. Each song has its own aesthetic and dimensions. It takes several days to produce one cNote.

Although a significant amount of time and effort goes into each cNote proof, we offer a 100% money back guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied with your cNote proof, we will return ALL of your money. However, once you approve your cNote proof and it's printed, we cannot accept any returns or exchanges. cNotes are custom products designed for individuals. Your personalized cNote normally requires 10-15 business days. For more information about cNotes or the the custom process, please contact us at support@cNoteArt.com or (617) 834-9600.

We are the only source for cNotes. You can be assured that your cNote is genuine, original and authentic. cNotes are not only protected by our proprietary process, but all of the appropriate documents have been registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Custom cNotes use archival paper and best-in-class printing processes. They have a modern aesthetic and are perfect for the person who has everything. They are ideal gifts for anniversaries, birthdays, graduations and other special occasions. For instance, turn a couple’s wedding song into a cNote

cNOTEsTM make great gifts for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or other occasions. We can make a cNOTETM for any type of music, including Pop, Metal, Punk, Rap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Hard Rock, Alternative, Experimental, Latin, Country, Disco, Funk, Classical, Blues, Progressive, Techno, Ska, Reggae, Power Pop and Rock.

A cNOTETM can be made for any song by any artist, whether you are a fan of The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen, Grateful Dead or Phish, Elvis Presley or Eminem, Pink Floyd or Pink, Led Zepplin or The Who, Charles Mingus or The Clash, Mozart or Beethoven, Lou Reed or Louis Armstrong, Coldplay or Radiohead, Britney Spears or Barney, Green Day or Guns N’ Roses, John Lennon or Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson or Wilco, Cream or The Yardbirds, Kid Rock or Kris Kristofferson, James Brown or James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett or Jimmy Cliff, The Supremes or Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave or Simon & Garfunkel, Phil Collins or Peter Gabriel, Snoop Dogg or Stevie Ray Vaughn, Sting or The Strokes, Taj Mahal or The Talking Heads, Tom Petty or Tom Waits, Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra, U2 or UB40, Van Morrison or Jim Morrison, Velvet Revolver or The Velvet Underground, The Village People or The Violent Femmes, War or Warren Zevon, The White Stripes or Waylon Jennings, Eric Clapton or Wreckless Eric, Traffic or The Police, Miles Davis or Mary J. Blige, Ray Charles or Rod Stewart, R.E.M or The Ramones, Run DMC or The Beastie Boys, Usher or Kanye West, Bo Didley or BB King, Vivaldi or Tchaikovsky, Madonna or Marvin Gaye, Neil Young or Neil Diamond, Pearl Jam or Nirvana.

A cNOTETM is the Music of Art.

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