"Art of Diagram" is an ongoing Open Access publication project, which is based on the pictures/diagrams of the Virtual Museum "Sound Colour Space". The pictures of the virtual museum website (2017) are archived one-to-one in the media archive. The publication (print/ePub) is planned for 2022.
Led by Daniel Muzzulini (CH) and Susan F. Weiss (U.S.), an international group of scientists formed a study group "Musical Diagrams", officially installed at the International Musicological Society in September 2020. The "Art of Diagram"-online meetings of the study group and other materials are published here.
The 14th century diagrams in the focus of this paper deal with geometric sequences, fractional powers and recursion, which are mathematical topics relevant also for music theory: defining consonant intervals, comparing the sizes of musical intervals and dividing them into equal parts, constructing musical scales with several equal steps. These diagrams might have paved the way to mathematical concepts further developed only in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Art of Diagram: Maria Mannone
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Diagrams and Abstract Thinking to Connect Images and Music
For the conference, which dealt with spatial models of timbre in the broadest sense, international experts could be found as speakers: Charalampos SAITIS, Maria MANNONE, Kai SIEDENBURG, Christoph REUTER, Dieter MAURER.
The topics and research questions of the conference ranged from psycho acoustic to technological and philosophical approaches to an aspect of sound perception which is sometimes called a “multidimensional dimension”. The fundamental categories of tone, colour, space, time and movement seem to evaporate when we try to fathom their essence. Derived notions such as time space, timbre (“sound colour”), hue (“colour tone”), tonal space and space-time are therefore not spared ambiguities and vagueness either. Whereas spatial models for pitch (“tone height”) have a long history, to date no reliable spaces for timbre could be established unequivocally. Although the timbre space metaphor conjectured by John Grey and the visualisations from his writings (1977/1978) are depicted in many introductions to musical acoustics, timbre is far from being a universally valid spatial feature of musical sounds.