Catalogue of Mehta's Visual Work 2000-2007

These graphical drawings are used as a meta-notational framework which allow for multiple interpretations for western and non-western musicians and instruments as well as provide navigational information for moving musicians, choreographic instructions for dancers, and film projection material.

The musical compositions are derived from the natural measurability and scalability of being drawn on a Cartesian grid - (graph paper felt more familiar to me than staff paper!). The x-axis is used for temporal scaling and the y-axis for pitch and a superimposed pitch and time scaling measurement is employed for vertical objects. All of the drawings contain fours basic object types: Ornamental objects (O-objects), Pointillistic objects (P-objects), Trajectory Objects (T-objects) and Relational Objects (R-objects). The Ornamental objects represent lyrical and microtonal forms and have, through various forms of shading, instructions for a particular type of sound transformation or "muting". The Pointillistic objects are used as percussive clouds and are in addition to being interpreted by acoustic instruments, also sonically rendered by a graphical computer program. The Trajectory Objects are glissandi, and finally the Relational Objects -the dotted lines- are gluing devices which interconnect the objects that are crossed on their paths and generate musical pieces which are scored through a timing diagram.

Drawings 1st series: pencil on vellum graph paper from 2001, Berlin

Musical Scores notated on graph paper: 2001-2007, Europe, USA

Drawings 2nd Series, ink on paper and pencil on graph paper, The DUNE, Pondicherry and Chennai 2006

Paintings, acrylic and ink on Silk paper
Chennai 2006