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Free Talk: Painting Time

The Translation of Visual Art to Music by Efrat Berestizhevsky. Wednesday, February 26th, 6 pm


Class Info

Join us Wednesday, February 26th at 6 pm for a free talk by pianist and researcher Efrat Berestizhevsky. "There has been a long history of the relationship between music and visual art as early as Aristotle, who described high and low sound as analogue to bright and dark color, to an entire art movement in the early 1910s dedicated to the pursuit of capturing rhythm in art called Orphism. Composers have also long been influenced by stories told in visual art. Each movement in Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition depicts various characters in the paintings of Viktor Hartmann through music. Beyond simply inspiration however, the translation of music to visual art is catalyzed by a want to go beyond the limits of medium. Visual artists, working with the spatial dimension, experimented with a sense of time and duration while composers, working with the temporal dimension, explored space and depth in their pieces. In this lecture, I will explore the various ways each art form manifests itself in the other, perform excerpts from various pieces, and discuss what the greater implication of this connection is. I will touch upon broader visuo-musical connections but also demonstrate that specifically in the 20th and 21st century, certain visual artists have influenced the very essence of a composer’s style and vice versa." Efrat Berestizhevsky is a pianist and researcher, teaching and performing classical and contemporary music. She is currently pursuing her PhD in musicology at the University of Aberdeen where her research revolves around the intersection of music and visual art of the 20th and 21st century. More specifically, she is focused on the translation of techniques, concepts, or philosophies between the two media. Registration not required.


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    (856) 556-0420

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