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Messiaen as performance art
Posted at 2:47 PM on October 23, 2009
by Alison Young
Filed under: Fun finds, In the media, Musician stories
When Olivier Messiaen was a prisoner of war, he composed one of the most astonishing pieces of music of the 20th century: "The Quartet for the End of Time."
It's said that Messiaen suffered from Synesthesia - the neurological condition that blurs the senses. Messiaen called it "colored hearing." So it seems only natural that the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center would create a music video of painters in the act of creating vivid and colorful art to the music of Messiaen.
Thanks to Michael Barone for finding this video!
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