About this talk

A lecture exploring the deep connections between sound and vision. From Newton's colour scales assigning tones to the rainbow, artists and composers have long explored how we 'see' music and 'hear' images. The lecture traces the co-evolution of visual and sonic art through Kandinsky's Compositions and Improvisations, Klee's polyphonic paintings, and Scriabin's synaesthetic craft. It examines spectral composers, technological translations of light into rhythm and melody, and uncovers the hidden spectrum where music and colour intertwine. The lecture covers cross-modal correspondence, synaesthesia, historical colour scales from Newton onwards, and culminates with Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire as a seminal attempt to fuse light and sound into a single artistic act.

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