Beyond Transposition

This exposition is the culmination of four years of Harriet Carter’s doctoral research that articulates the complexity of transposition between the auditory and the visual. Specifically, she questions the extent that transposition operates between the intangible ephemera of an embodied birdsong encounter and tangible material processes in painting through an analysis of Olivier Messiaen’s birdsong transcriptions that inform his epic piano piece Catalogue d’oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds). By conceptualising mark-making as a […]

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