A strange phenomenon is going on this weekend: Synaesthesia 2. Synaesthesia is an involuntary condition experienced by some, such as 20th-century classical composers Scriabin and Messiaen. When they heard a sound or musical pitch, they would automatically see, in their mind’s eye, some particular color. This variety of synaesthesia is sometimes called “chromesthesia” or “color […]
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The pin (and) ball wizard
Once upon a time, there were two Greek painters, Parrhasius and Zeuxis. Zeuxis was considered the greatest painter of still life in the ancient world. In a competition between the two artists, Zeuxis chose to paint an arrangement of grapes and placed the painting outside. It was so realistic that birds flew down to […]
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Digital cubism
Music made on a laptop computer? It’s nothing new in the Rochester underground music scene. And now you can add Brad Lubman to the mix. “Confrontational, severe, meditative, ambient-electro-acoustic [music]” is how the classically trained conductor, composer, percussionist, and Eastman School of Music professor describes his Clear Housing, part of a sound and visual installation […]
