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Music and the Visual World
John Dante Prevedini led an online discussion for Classical Music Daily on Monday 16 December 2024
John Dante Prevedini led a one hour online discussion on the wide-ranging subject of 'Music and the Visual World' on Monday 16 December 2024. The discussion was planned to include many different aspects of the interaction between the visual and musical worlds, including music for ballet, opera, film, installations and other visual media, visual inspiration for music (such as Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition), visual dimensionality and motion depicted in music, visual art inspired by music, photography of music and musicians, album covers, concert posters, music word search puzzles, synaesthesia - seeing music in colours - and augenmusik / eye music.
The contributors to the live discussion were Celia Craig, Halida Dinova, Katya Lebedeva, John Dante Prevedini (chairman) and Keith Bramich.
The discussion was divided into three distinct sections:
- Music envisioned with visuals - music created with specific visual accompaniment in mind
- Music repurposed with visuals - visuals and music independently created and subsequently combined for novel purposes
- Inherently visual music - when the sonic structure of the music itself creates a visual experience
The recorded discussion has been edited into a video podcast and was published here on 1 January 2025. Our video newsletters normally receive more than a thousand views. You can play the discussion video here. Although you've missed the live discussion, you can still make comments, which can be added to the discussion page.
Before publication, we sent everyone who took part a 'proof' video which they could comment on, in case anything occurred during the meeting which anyone preferred not to be published.
For those who couldn't (or preferred not to) use Zoom, short comments could also be recorded and sent using any standard audio or video file format, such as MP3 or MP4 etc, or (by prior arrangement) via Signal or WhatsApp.
You can view our previous video discussions via the newsletters page. Watch out for news of future discussions on the same page.
Posted 11 December 2024 and last updated 29 January 2025
by
Keith Bramich
