Respite 3 (Black & White)
The 2021 exhibition Music as Image and Metaphor brings together forty-one works by twenty-eight artists from the Kentler Flatfiles focused on the theme of music.  The show includes a suite of miniature musical correspondences, one for each visual work, created by composer-pianist Michael Kowalski and percussionist-composer Allen Otte.



Margaret Neill, Respite 3 (Black & White)
India ink on paper, 15" x 15", 2013




Dialogue: musical metaphor by Allen Otte

Excerpt from Qu Xiao Song, Lam Mot, 1991
performed by Percussion Group Cincinnati:

Allen Otte, James Culley, and Russell Burge