Intersections Between Music and Visual Arts in Europe: 1950-2000
The Institute for Music celebrates its fortieth anniversary by focusing on the relationship between music and other arts, which emerges conspicuously and significantly from the sources preserved in its archives and has characterised the salient phases of its scientific activity. The conference extends the European horizon of a project dedicated to the Italian context, coordinated by Gianmario Borio and Angela Sanna in 2023. Bringing together musicologists and art historians from across Europe, the conference foregrounds original research on collaborative practices, aesthetic convergences, and the circulation of ideas among protagonists engaged in intermedia experimentation. Contributions examine both shared concerns and national particularities, offering nuanced perspectives on the historical development of cross-disciplinary practices. In addition to archival and historiographic analyses, the programme includes theoretical reflections on the aesthetic and
conceptual implications of intermedia projects. The discourse reveals a complex landscape of analogies, appropriations, hybridisations, and synergies; it shows a gradual dissolution of rigid genre boundaries, anticipating the integrative tendencies of the digital age.
3 dicembre
9:30 — 13:00
Greetings and Introduction by Gianmario Borio and Charlotte De Mille
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Jean-Marc Chouvel
Sorbonne University, Paris
The Eye Listens, But What Does the Ear See? Reflections on the Modalities of a Plural Art
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Marina Hervás
Granada University
Beyond the Regime, Before the Canon: Music and Visual Arts in Spain
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Iwona Lindstedt
Warsaw University
Zygmunt Krauze’s Unistic Music: Three Experiments in Arts Intersection 1968–1969
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15 — 18
Gianfranco Vinay
Paris 8 University, Saint Denis
Boulez’s Mirrors: Compositional Correspondences Between Music and Painting
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Jan Butler
Oxford Brookes University
The Roots of the Audiovisual in Popular Music: Psychedelia and the UK in the 1960s
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Gianmario Borio
Pavia University / Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Convergence of Painting and Music: Theses and Philosophical Implications
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18:30
Concert mdi ensemble
4 dicembre
9:30 — 12:30
Daniela Tortora
Santa Cecila Conservatory, Rome
After Collage, Marcatrè, and Grammatica: the Experience of Achille Perilli’s Gruppo Altro, from Kombinat Joey – 1970 to Dies Irae – 1978
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Manon Raoult
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
‘Is the Painter a Musician?’ The Sonic Foundations of Jean Dubuffet’s Anti-Cultural, Materialist, and Utopian Brut Aesthetic
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Jörn Peter Hiekel
Hochschule für Musik, Dresden
Institutional Activities at the Intersection of Music and Visual Arts: Observations on Impulses and Constellations in West Germany
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15 — 18
Johannes Holtmon
Kode Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen
Harald Sæverud: Music and Architecture, Modernity and Tradition
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Michele Leggieri
Pavia University
Aldo Clementi Between Sign and Sound
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Charlotte De Mille
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Towards a ‘Philosophy for Painting’: Musico-Visual Intersections in Post-War Britain
