About

My name is Fay Kelley, and I'm both a visual artist and music producer based in Florida. But it wasn't always this way.

I started painting in the early 2000s, working primarily in oil and acrylic. For years, I sold work through galleries and online, building a modest following. Then, around 2017, everything stopped. I couldn't create. Every canvas felt wrong. I packed away my supplies and walked away from art entirely.

During those quiet years, I stumbled into music production almost by accident. A friend showed me a DAW, and I was immediately hooked. I spent countless hours learning synthesis, experimenting with VST plugins, layering sounds. It became my new obsession.

But something strange started happening. When I worked on a track, I would see colors. Specific frequencies triggered specific hues. A deep bass note was always dark purple. High harmonics shimmered in pale gold. I started sketching these visions—rough drawings of what I was hearing.

One day, I reversed the process. I looked at an old painting and asked myself: what does this sound like? I opened my DAW and tried to recreate the image as audio. The result was unlike anything I'd made before.

That's when I understood. For me, sound and image aren't separate—they're translations of the same thing. I call this approach Synesthetic Composition. Every piece I create now has a dual existence: a visual work and its musical counterpart.

The tools of music production—synthesizers, samplers, effects plugins—have become as essential to my practice as brushes and paint. They help me understand the architecture of sound, which I then translate into visual form.

I'm back. And I'm creating in ways I never imagined possible.