Music paintings related to compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich
The complex instrumentation of the fifteen symphonies composed by Dmitri Shostakovich is particularly suitable to stimulate visual synesthetic phenomena. My first three pictures shown here are related to sheets of sound, which are agglomerated by the polyphonic interaction of numerous instruments. The colored boundary area expresses a perceived background color. The inner area follows the format of Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square” and thus connects the music back to the origins of modernism.
“Polyphonic aggregation I” from Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 B major, Op. 14 “To October”, first movement, score section 1-13. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2019.
“Polyphonic aggregation II” from Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 B major, Op. 14 “To October”, second movement, score section 39-52. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2019.
“Siren and Choir” from Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 B major, Op. 14 “To October”, third movement. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2021.
“Fortissimo I” from Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 C minor, Op. 43, first movement, time segment ~7’15”-7’27”. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2019.
Beginning of the opera “The Nose” by Dmitri Shostakovich. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2020.
“Interlude 1” from the opera “The Nose” by Dmitri Shostakovich. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2020.
“Galopp” from the opera “The Nose” by Dmitri Shostakovich. Michael Haverkamp, acrylic on cardboard, 2020.
Michael Haverkamp - Exploring the Senses 