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Visual Music

 

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Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time-Intermede"

Olivier Messiaen's "Chronochromie-Strophe I"

Alexander Scriabin's "Symphony No 5 - Prométhée, le poème du feu, Op. 60"
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Daniel Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, Capriccio Musicale (Circus), 1913. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Daniel Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, Capriccio Musicale (Circus), 1913. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
František Kupka, Organization of Graphic Motifs II, 1912-13. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Leo Villareal, Lightscape, 2002. Installation view from Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, collection of the artist.
Still from a performance of Joshua White and Gary Panter's Light Show, 2005, New York.
Jennifer Steinkamp, Installation view of SWELL, 1995. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Single Wing Turquoise Bird, Film footage of performance, 1970. Courtesy of Peter Mays.
Thomas Wilfred, Opus in Depth, Study 152, 1959. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Jordan Belson, still from Epilogue, 2005. © Jordan Belson, courtesy Center for Visual Music.


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