Chromesthesia: Capturing Sound and Color in Art and Music

In music, color is a term often used to describe the fusion of different instruments, melodies, rhythm, and harmonies that convey a specific mood.  “Chromesthesia: Creating Sound and Color in Art and Music” is a community engagement activation, live music demonstration and discussion exploring the ways artists capture sound in visual art and musicians create color in music.  

Inspired by Detroit artist Judy Bowman’s collage work, which is featured on the vinyl release of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s new recording of Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony and the recording’s musical color palette, this family-friendly event invites you to create your own Blues Symphony art with Judy Bowman while listening to a movement from the DSO recording.  Using eco-friendly fabrics, recycled papers, and found objects, each collage will contribute to a larger work that represents the sounds and thematic elements that can be heard in the Blues Symphony recording.  

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