160079 VO+UE Visual Music (2013S)

Visual Music

This course provides historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives on the synaesthetic overlaps between music and the visual arts. These creative "correspondences" (to borrow Baudelaire’s term) have fascinated artists, musicians, scientists, and philosophers since Antiquity, but especially since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when new technologies such as photography, sound recording, and cinema challenged traditional distinctions between artistic disciplines and encouraged experimental approaches to this interplay of sight and sound. We will study specific artworks, concepts, and movements to gain a deeper understanding of this evolving field of creative and perceptual practices.