The Marquette University Chorus and Chamber Choir will perform “rHyThMs oF lIgHt: Seeing with Sound,” on Friday, Sept. 26, at 5 p.m. at the Haggerty Museum of Art.
Light — at once particle and wave — travels in paradox, shaping how we perceive the world. In this performance, the Marquette University Chorus and Chamber Choir draw inspiration from Jan Tichy’s “Installation No. 46 (Rhythmus 24),” where light pulses as rhythm and rhythm transforms into vision. This concert explores the meeting point of science and art, past and present, tradition and innovation.
Through choral works spanning centuries and styles, the program invites the audience to experience how music can refract like light — sometimes shimmering and diffuse, other times focused and intense. Patterns emerge and dissolve; silence becomes shadow; sound itself illuminates. In an age where the digital blurs boundaries of creation and reproduction, this performance becomes an immersive space where voices echo the fundamental truth of Tichy’s work: that rhythm is not only something we hear, but something we see, feel, and inhabit.
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