Dictated House Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Victorien Sardou, musical and architectural style.

In connection with audio scores, the workshop asks about the effectiveness (of ideas) of a physical and mental co-perception and spontaneous imitation of sounds heard in music. From the perspective of art studies, related constellations in the field of the visual will be explored, i.e. concepts of a synchronous and situational “transcription” of acoustic input - in the sense of its interpretative visualization, realization and completion. Such concepts can be found, for example, in the spiritualist practices of the 19th century - especially in cases where messages from the other side also came from an artistic personality. Fortunately, a remarkable drawing by the French playwright and spiritualist Victorien Sardou allows us to immediately tie the excursion into the visual back to a musical setting: As part of his séances, Sardou drew, among other things, the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s spirit on the planet Jupiter under the guidance of its inhabitant - more or less wilfully translating a musical into a visual style (although Mozart did not play, but spoke). The lecture would like to ask about the conditions under which the acoustic became an image and about the concept of creativity inscribed in this process: even and especially where the interpreter’s own creative contribution was reduced to his mediumistic translation aid (Sardou’s sheet was signed by Mozart), corresponding reports attested the outranging artistic sensitivity and empathy of the interpreter.