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Explore the fascinating connections between music and visual art in this lecture that examines how sound and vision intertwine throughout history. Discover how artists and composers from Newton to Kandinsky have investigated the relationship between color and musical tones, tracing the evolution from Newton's color scales that assigned tones to rainbow hues to modern technological translations of light into rhythm and melody. Learn about the synaesthetic works of influential artists including Kandinsky's Compositions and Improvisations, Klee's polyphonic paintings, and Scriabin's multisensory compositions that reveal the deep interplay between visual and sonic art. Examine how spectral composers have developed shared languages between music and color, uncovering the hidden spectrum where these two art forms converge and influence each other in contemporary creative practice.
