Music of the Spheres

Sample Topics

Listed below are the presentation topics from the last delivery of Music of the Spheres by way of example.
    • Process as Purpose
    • Music, Number and Architecture: Xenakis’ Polytopes
    • Partch, Ptolomy, Tonality and Sound
    • Klee and Webern: Theories and approaches
    • Olivier Messiaen: A theory of colour
    • Colour association in Messiaen’s Couleurs de la cité céleste
    • The conception of music and time in the music of Steve Reich
    • An exploration of consonance, dissonance and combination tones
    • Schoenberg’s use of colour in ‘Farben’ from Five Orchestral Pieces, opus. 16
    • The relationship between music & numbers in Cage’s First Construction (In Metal)
    • Philip Glass’s ‘Floe’ from Glassworks and Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition VIII
    • The Common Thinking between Kandinsky and Schoenberg on Painting and Music
    • Music and image in the work of Harry Smith
    • Messiaen’s synaesthetic views on music and colour, examining colour interpretations in Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
    • The influence of the harmonic series in the transition from polyphonic to harmonic music of the Renaissance
    • Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition X
    • Magic Squares and Webern’s Concerto, op. 24
    • Symmetrical Permutations in the Music of Olivier Messiaen
    • Music and numbers in the work of Ryoji Ikeda
    • The relationship between graphic symbols and sound
    • Patterns of self similarity in John Cage’s First Construction (In Metal)