Implementing visual elements in a classical music performance is a great tool for

an enhanced concert experience. This master project concentrated on a visual

interpretation of Olivier Messiaen’s song cycle “Poèmes pour Mi” and

investigated the possibilities of using cinematography to serve a musical

composition and its interpretation in a live performance. The goal was to underline

the composition with motion picture elements and resulted in a synchronised

performance film, premiered in January 2025. Messiaen himself had synaesthesia

and his music is an invitation for all kinds of haptics and colour related

associations. Investigating the different parameters in visual art helped to

understand the structure and components of filmmaking, which could then be

directly translated into musical parameters. This study demonstrates a broad range

of possibilities when creating a visual expansion of a musical score and opens up

for a new concept of live music experiences, with exact synchronisation and an

active interplay between the musicians on stage and the movie on screen.