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Arts & Communication On the interplay between painting and music

and music songs that have been defined by their creators relations may be “one-to-one,” as in the case of Tankian’s
when combining the two media into a final product (e.g., exhibition (described in the introduction section),
a music album including a visual cover) or by shaping “one-to-many,” as in traditional music albums where a
multimedia experiences that intrinsically intertwine one visual cover complements all the songs included in it, or
or multiple music pieces to imagery or paintings. Such “many-to-many,” as in multimedia products and artistic
performances. In all cases, the connection between the
Table 1. List of interview questions involved art pieces is strong and denotes that the two types
of media complement each other and are meant to be
Interview questions experienced by the audience together.
1. Which were your favorite stories?
2. Which were your least favorite stories? On some occasions, visual artists and music composers
3. What kind of relations between music and visual arts did you reveal? explicitly tackle the dialogic relation between the two
4. What kind of connection between music and visual arts did you like forms of art and state or implicitly denote their approach
the most/least and why? to draw transmedia inspirations in their artistic processes,
5. Which Artwork Card gave the most esthetically pleasing result and
why? uncovering directed, “one-to-one” relations between visual
6. Which Artwork Card offered the most interesting anecdotal story? artworks and music songs. These connections are typically
7. Did you like the way the stories were structured? rather strong and may be encountered in both directions,
8. Did you find something confusing? that is, visual artists draw inspiration from music songs
9. Did you like that there were many different types of relations and music composers from artworks. For example, each
included in the set of artworks? Would you prefer the set to be
somehow homogenous? painting included in the exhibition “No more shall we part”
10. Did you feel that this experience made you understand deeper or by Stefanos Rokos is perceived as “the visualization-with
somehow resonate with the artworks or their creators? If yes, in tangible consciousness” of a (vocal) music song included
what ways? in the referenced music album. Going the other way

Figure 2. Proposed conceptual model. Image created by authors

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