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      Experiencing Visual Music From an Artist’s and Listener’s Point of View

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      Proceedings of EVA London 2020 (EVA 2020)
      AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
      6th July – 9th July 2020
      Visual music, Synaesthesia, Mental imagery, Artificial Intelligence, The imagery debate
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            Visual Music is an art form that can enhance the emotional impact of music performance through the simultaneous projection of mood-congruent visual imagery. I illustrate the transcendence of the art by reference to two of my pieces. In Abîme des oiseaux , it was Olivier Messiaen’s ability to accurately transmute a wide range of celestial colours into audible sound combinations that enabled me to hear ‘the colours that moved with his music’ and, thereby, see what was in his mind’s eye. Visual mental imagery during music listening plays a pivotal role for the majority of listeners. In creating my own visual responses to music, I seek to modulate listeners’ emotional response by implanting my own form of visual expression in their minds. This is both the challenge and delight of making Visual Music. In my latest work Passeggiata , based on Luciano Berio’s Sequenza IXa for solo clarinet, I’ve used patterns and images gleaned from Deep Dream artificial intelligence to give an impression of an other-worldly ‘passeggiata’ in and around a mountain village in Liguria – the province of Italy where Berio was born and lived.

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            Conference
            July 2020
            July 2020
            : 85-90
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            [0001]Trickett Associates

            Barbican, UK
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            10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.14
            4ba0a3bf-89f6-4fd0-a40a-53bb25d0b847
            © Trickett. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2020

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            Proceedings of EVA London 2020
            EVA 2020
            30
            London
            6th July – 9th July 2020
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Visual music,Synaesthesia,Artificial Intelligence,The imagery debate,Mental imagery

            REFERENCES

            1. 2016 Provoking Acts Berio’s Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis Routledge New York 99 116

            2. 1739 1978 A Treatise of Human Nature Oxford Clarendon Press

            3. 1984 Ghosts in the Mind’s Machine: Creating and Using Images in the Brain New York W. W. Norton 91 110

            4. 1940 L’Imaginaire, Paris Gallimard

            5. 2019 A Review of Music-Evoked Visual Mental Imagery: Conceptual Issues, Relation to Emotion, and Functional Outcomes Psychomusicology: music, mind and brain 29(2–3) 62 74 http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27482/ February 2020

            6. 2016a Olivier Messiaen’s Esoteric World of Sound and Colour, video https://youtu.be/nlJ4FX_wKeM February 2020

            7. 2016b Revealing the Colours of the Apocalypse through Visual Music Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, EVA, London [Cross Ref] February 2020

            8. 2019 Passeggiata: a Visual Interpretation of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza IXa video https://youtu.be/5ZpPz4UsKv8 February 2020

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