The Sound of the Vision of Ezekiel

I have created a score from Raphael’s painting The Vision of Ezekiel. The sixteenth century masterpiece has been translated into musical language to the extent that a mass of quavers jostling on the staves of a sheet of manuscript paper build the image of Ezekiel’s vision both visually and aurally. Marks which traditionally represent note, time and pitch for the musician retain their power to speak in this way but are invested with a new language too, they convey the image of the original painting. This work seeks to go beyond drawing and composition, to become a fusion of the visual and aural, history and modernity and potential and performance.

I believe that the only way to fully realise this piece is to commission a composer and orchestra to learn the work for performance. The event itself must match the grandeur of the original masterpiece but this still remains an unrealised element of the piece. However, the work does currently have an element of expression in the individual imaginations of the viewers.