Eye hEar The Visual in Music

Eye hEar The Visual in Music employs the concept of the visual in proximate relation to music producing a tension: 'is it not the case that there is a gulf between painting and music between the visible and the audible? One is full of colour and light yet silent; one is invisible and marvellously noisy.' Such a belief this book argues betrays an ideological constraint on music desiccating it to sound and art to vision. The starting point of this study is more hybrid (and hydrating): that music is never employed without numerous and complex intersections with the visual. By involving the concept of synaesthesia the book evokes music's multi-sensory nature stops it from sounding alone and offers music as a subject for art historians.