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Visualizing Sound: Animation as Artistic Dialogue with Charles Koechlin’s Music (100514)
Session Chair: Belinda Chen
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Saturday, 8 November 2025 15:55
Session: Session 3
Room: Live-Stream Room 1
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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Artistic innovation often begins with dialogue, whether between sound and image, movement and word, past and present. French composer Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) envisioned many of his piano miniatures as inherently cinematic, composing them in the early 20th-century to accompany imagined films. Although this vision was never realized during his lifetime, it reflects a rich tradition of intermedial exchange in which music and visual narrative directly engage with one another. This project reimagines Koechlin’s vision through a contemporary lens, situating his work within a broader lineage of cross-disciplinary artistic correspondence, continuing the dialogue begun by Alexander Scriabin’s (1872-1915) synesthetic compositions to the “visual music” of Hans Richter (1888-1976), Walther Ruttman (1887-1941), and Oskar Fischinger (1900-1976). Portrait of Daisy Hamilton for Piano and Animation is an academic collaboration developed at Bilkent University, pairing live piano performance with original animations created in direct response to the music. The animations emerged from an interpretive dialogue: the pianist shared how tempo, dynamics, and phrasing shaped narrative, while the animator translated these cues into visual sequences that echoed and expanded the musical ideas. By centering mutual artistic interpretation, the project foregrounded visual language as an active, narrative force that was shaped in dialogue with musical expression. The collaboration blurs the lines between sound and image, performer and animator. Ultimately, the project demonstrates how music and image can function in correspondence, not only as expressive counterparts but as collaborative tools for communicating narrative and meaning.
Authors:
Belinda Chen, Bilkent University, Turkey
Fulten Larlar, Bilkent University, Turkey
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Belinda Chen is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Bilkent University in Turkey
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