Passing Sounds

Visual music – synaesthesia in art and music since 1900. Club as an art installation.

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Quotes:

‘A further step in uniting visual and auditory experience has been developed in recent years through the medium of installation art.(…) While sound may be directional in origin, it can be perceived no matter what direction the listener faces; though the listener’s movement through space can affect the quality and character of sound. By contrast, a painting requires a more-or-less fixed gaze to be perceived, as does a film. Installations activate Bothe the space they occupy and the viewer. The psychical quality of “sound (loud enough, sound can be felt) is both approximated and augmented by the totalling character of the installation space.'(19)

‘If s. represents the unity of the senses, the dream of s. is the unification of the arts.’ (19)

‘In digital media, by contrast, music and visual art truly are united, not only by experiencing subject, the listener

non-representational art and music

Author: Alicja Barczuk

Sound art student

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