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Infinity

The language of music and the language of art are manifestations of the human language faculty parameterized according to a particular sensorial modality.

The creative force of human language, captured by the Principle of Discrete Infinity (Chomsky 1995), explains why we can produce and understand an infinite number of novel utterances compositionally built from a finite number of syntactic and semantic objects.

Works of musical and visual art share a common language transcribed to a code which may be read by a particular sensorial interface: A language built by the universal principles of human language.

Fundación Nova Caixa Galicia

Concert. November 18, 2011. 20:30

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Music and Art

What aspects of the shape of a visual object are filtered by our mind when transcribing to some musical language the images and figures represented by a painting, a sculpture or a building?

How do we assign some sonic shape to the shape of a physical object?

What is the sound of a face?

How does love, grief or war sound?

What is the image built by our mind when listening to a musical object?

What kind of cognitive processes are involved when hearing what we see or seeing what we hear?