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Time and space, why music evokes images

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Opening post by maquieto

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Every sound or organized melody stirs our senses deeply. A hiss, a thunderclap, the sound of a flute, create emotions and images by conveying a very precise message.

Why? The pianist who tells a piece narrates it and shapes it... while the listener imagines and also involuntarily constructs a puzzle rich in figurative references.

At the same time, images have provided inspiration for authors to create a soundscape or a melodic line by setting them to music.

What true and profound relationship is there between music and the image? Can music become an image and vice versa?

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Reply 2 by Kappa

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The connection between music and image is only one of the possibilities, there are at least three

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Reply 3 by maquieto

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Yes, of course. The possibilities are many. But it is interesting to understand or discuss this in the meantime.

What do you think?

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Reply 4 by giovannip

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I almost always opt for the music plus image formula in my short piano performances. I like to associate the two; sometimes it is the images that inspire me, and so I look for a piece suitable for the images, sometimes it is the opposite. Generally speaking, I believe things are somewhat like this for everyone.

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Reply 5 by Kappa

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Music for images is one thing, images and music from a philosophical point of view ... is another (perhaps because I am being betrayed by references to extramusical sounds such as thunder, which evoke images)

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Reply 6 by maquieto

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Yes ...a very complex matter.

It would be nice to discuss it.

It could also embrace the synesthetic study of perception..

I am very interested in the relationships between music and psychology.

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Reply 8 by LucaCavaliere

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fabio73 wrote:

What true and profound relationship is there between music and image? Can music become an image and vice versa?

For the second question, the answer is, in both cases, yes.

As music that has become an image, only Klimt's Beethoven Frieze comes to mind.

As an image that has become music, it is enough to mention The Four Seasons and Kinderszenen.

The true and profound relationship between music and image is Man.

Human beings have an innate capacity to imagine; music, for its part, is perhaps their greatest invention.

The connection is very simple.

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