Visualisation of Music and Sound

Description

Visual representations of audible events have throughout history been central to theoreticians’, historians’ and practitioners’ insights in music and sound. As an example, musical scores have played a crucial role in the study and performance of Western Art Music, -even to such extend, that they from the end of the 18th century and on, begin to occupy a position as the musical work. With 20th century sonograms visualizations also served composers of electro acoustic music astools, that could give insight to the tiniest detail of a sound, meanwhile they also became documentation and scores for future performances.With today’s ubiquity of audio recordings, one could think, that the visualizations of sound and music would diminish. Never the less, the visualization of music is still around offering insights to music and sound, that we could not achieve without them. With examples from 20th and 21st century music and sound art, this presentation argues for the visualization of music as a situated and performative act, that offers much more than an imaginary of sound.

Period	2019 May 24
Event title	See the Sound! An Interdisciplinary Symposium about Visualisation of Sound in Society, Research, Art & Music
Event type	Seminar
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National