trails of visual music from the 20th to the 21st century

Masterarbeit Masterstudium Komposition RA 066 701

ABSTRACT: This research explores how the visual and sound arts are conjugated throughout visual music. I inquire into the different artworks and artists of visual music in the 20th and 21st century. The term visual music is discussed briefly at the beginning, showing the different perspectives proposed by specialists and making small comparisons between definitions. Going through the early manifestations in color music and cymatics (the study of sound frequencies through the visualization of its waves), the connection with painting and abstract art, to the arrival of the experiments in the avant-garde and finally materializing the visual music culture in film, the history continues with the development of the visual music practice and the influences of other art movements in their aesthetics and ideas. Before arriving to the 2000’s, I present some context by mentioning key figures in the contemporary music and the artistic climate in the previous decades. In addition, I dedicate a chapter entirely to silence, focusing in silent music and silent visual music. As a closure, I extract conclusions that relate with the contemporary aesthetics of visual music, the contributions made to other artistic realms, and to future research topics that have not yet been addressed.

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