Since October 2019, Spot On MozART has been dedicated to the visual exploration of listening and thus to a new understanding of the music of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. At the end of the project in autumn 2023, the Mozarteum University will present a retrospective of all implemented art and research projects in a comprehensive publication.
Unbounded
Unbounded deals with the transformation process of Mozart's Symphony in A major (KV 201) into a gradually emerging abstract painting, visually realized in the form of an animated film.
Symphony in A major, KV 201
A film by
Sophie Thammer
Unbounded deals with the transformation process of Mozart’s Symphony in A major (KV 201) into a gradually emerging abstract painting, realised in the form of an animated film. Moving graphic objects/traces are synaesthetically assigned to the parameters in the music in correspondence with agricultural processes and the resulting structuring and geometrisation of nature. Referring to the unstable character of music, that e.g. tones, motifs can always be rearranged in relation to the temporal dimension, the new, graphic “score” should also be able to reinvent, overlap and destroy itself again and again.
- Idea and concept: Sophie Thammer
- Direction and production: Sophie Thammer
- Music analysis, musical concept and music direction: Sihua Ren
- Motion design and animation design: João Levezinho
- Graphics: Elena Štrok
- Project supervision: Claudia Lehmann and Konrad Hempel
- Spot On MozART Project Supervision: Thomas Ballhausen