If a B&W photograph were a piece of music, what would it sound like?

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Aug 14, 2005

Ed Sukach said:
Hah! John Cage's "433".

"After Mozart, even the silence is Mozart's"...

Uncle Bill · Aug 18, 2005

For me Oscar Peterson on Verve, Vladimir Horvitz, The Beatles up to Rubber Soul.

argus · Aug 19, 2005

It would be more like Shostakovitsch in my case.
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TheMissingLink · Aug 19, 2005

CODONA I with Walcott, Cerry and Vasconcelos ... or Abdullah Ibrahim's "Ishmael" from his South Africa Session ... both reduced but agil and extremly manifold

Horst

Ed Sukach · Aug 19, 2005

At times, the Overture to Zampa, By Herold.

modafoto · Aug 20, 2005

Depending on what the picture shows and the contrast...

It would say anything between silence and Dead Link Removed

...and if I forget to stop down the enlarger lens and the print is fully overexposed...then it is just melancholic Type O Negative!

tim atherton · Aug 25, 2005

any good B&W should sound like Schönberg

David Brown · Aug 25, 2005

tim said:
any good B&W should sound like Schönberg

Only if you can get 12 zones.

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Aug 25, 2005

I will come back on my previous statement that B&W is only silence; to this I will add that so-called "post-rock" music (Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Yo La Tengo, Do Make Say Think, etc) have a great B&W feel to them. Additionally, GYBE uses a lot B&W photo on their album covers/inserts.

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