Seeing Sounds is an interdisciplinary performance by Kaja Majoor featuring Diederik Smulders on the cello, Ricardo Oliveira on percussion, and Majoor on the violin.
The program includes graphic scores by Morton Feldman, Mark Applebaum, Pauline Oliveros, Anas Qadamani, along with original scores by Kaja Majoor.
Saturday, 24 August, 2024 at 16:00 – free entrance
With Seeing Sounds, Majoor investigates how graphic scores can be used to create visual representations of sounds, giving both synesthetes and non-synesthetes a chance to experience music in a multi-sensory way. Exploring the phenomenon of synesthesia through graphic scores, illustrator and violinist Kaja Majoor combines different disciplines through colours, shapes and movements. The scores are projected on a screen in order to give the audience the chance to follow both the improvised music as well as the score.
Recently graduated at the Royal Conservatoire Masters in violin (NAIP / New Audiences and Innovative Practice), Majoor has been working on the project Seeing Sounds for the past two years. As an outcome she has created 5 graphical scores to be performed in collaboration with cellist Diederik Smulders and percussionist Ricardo Oliveira, as a trio at Quartair. Before the concert, Kaja will give a lecture on graphic scores, synesthesia, and her NAIP Master journey.
See also: kajamajoor.com / diederiksmulders.nl
Photos by Martin Majoor