Music – Gesture – Image

This module focuses on the research of structural relations between music and image. However, defining such a relation is by no means a vague analogy between the visible and audible or visual illustrations of invisible sounds but a contextualization of images in terms of musical forms and aesthetic experiences. From a perspective of historical anthropology the tangible moving body – seen as a theoretical significant tertium comparationis – will be made valuable for an aesthetic discourse.
An extensive concept of image forms the starting point in order to take into account the requirements of a relevant music research and the approach of two margins of history – the Middle Ages and Modernism. In addition to images as visual objects, descriptions of gestures and instrumental music will be the main objects of research.