«Seeing Music», «A Visible Voice»

An Interdisciplinary Encounter: Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019-24): Gerhard Richter, Corinna Belz, Rebecca Saunders

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https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21339

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contemporary painting, contemporary music, seeing music, colour, silence

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The Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003) entitled one of his lectures «Seeing Music» (1993-1994). As an example of this synaesthetic vision, we take as a reference an interdisciplinary work, Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019-24), an immersive installation in film and music which, based on the painting by Gerhard Richter (Dresden, *1932) entitled Abstraktes Bild (CR 946-3) (2016), cinematically recreated by Corinna Belz (Marburg, *1955) and complemented by a composition by Rebecca Saunders (London, *1967), was realised at the Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto in 2019. Richter has always been attracted to classical music: series Bach (CR 785) (1992), Cage (CR 897-1) (2006). Saunders, for his part, has expressed an interest in the paintings of Mark Rothko. The colour red –Gerhard Richter, Red (CR 821) (1994), Abstraktes Bild (CR 849-3) (1997); Rebecca Saunders, Cinnabar (1999), Vermilion (2003), Crimson (2004/05)– stands as a common symbolic colour on which to build the visual and sonic fabric. In both Richter’s silent listening and Saunders’ sound listening, silence is an essential referent: «Silence is the blank canvas on which the weight of sound leaves its mark» (Rebecca Saunders).

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2025-12-31

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Gonzalo Carbó, A. (2025). «Seeing Music», «A Visible Voice»: An Interdisciplinary Encounter: Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019-24): Gerhard Richter, Corinna Belz, Rebecca Saunders. UMÁTICA. Journal on Image Creation and Analysis, 8(8). https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21339

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