SynesCinema

Wassily Kandinsky heard Wagner and saw color. What would the pioneer of abstraction see and hear today? KLÄNGE, an homage named for his 1912 book Sounds, is a Bauhaus-style docu-trailer retrospective: a synesthetic composition in which an agentic film crew sets his paintings in motion, symbolically synced. Each canvas exhibited, then played. He bet his life on one conviction: a color, a sound, and a feeling are the same thing experienced three ways. He died in exile in 1944, the jury still out. The echoes only grew louder. The Guggenheim. Visual music. Every audio-reactive screen. Now multimodal machines dream in image and sound simultaneously, built on his premise. KLÄNGE immerses you in those multimedia sensory reverberations leaving the verdict to your own eyes and ears. "Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings."

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