Ricerc@Sapienza

“Representing is a transitive verb which demands an object” (Gombrich 1985, p. 214). But what are the possible modulations of this object? And, likewise, what is the extent of representation? These are the questions we have posed in carrying out a particular experiment: creating an infographic to give shape to a musical performance, String Quartet no. 10 Op. 74 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The experiment aims to combine knowledge and experience, logic and aesthetics, function and metaphor. By exercising these aspects, we would like to verify some of the possible extensions of representation with an approach that is at once modulated and synthetic, notational and systemic. The experiment has entailed considerations and reflections, requiring us to make some choices that will become as clear as possible in the paper’s development.