The Marginalian
The Marginalian

The Music of Philip Glass, Visualized in Fractals

By Maria Popova

I am obsessed with synesthesia and the visual language of music, and love the work of Philip Glass, so I am deeply taken with these fractal visualizations of Glass’s music by Russian artist Tatiana Plakhova.

Plakhova got a Master’s in social psychology before finding her calling in visual language — a living testament to my wholehearted belief in the creative potency of cross-disciplinary eloquence. (Einstein, for instance, famously attributed his greatest breakthroughs in physics to his violin breaks — he believed they helped parts of his brain connect in new ways.)

via @kirstinbutler

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Published May 16, 2011
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/05/16/tatiana-plakhova/
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