Through the medium of musical metaphor, in other words, synaesthesia gave birth to abstract art.
He often depicts musicians and musical metaphors, inspired by street art and Cuban music.
Janacek took the idea of speech patterns and made them into musical metaphors.
Being handed a sociological theme and asked to make a musical metaphor out of it must be an uncomfortable task.
If musical metaphors come to mind, that figures.
It is a vast musical metaphor for Varèse's conception of America.
A few days later, Wales also chose a musical metaphor.
Godwin's take on vibrations leads to a musical metaphor for the architecture of stories.
Perfume is described in a musical metaphor as having three sets of notes, making the harmonious scent accord.
But the score of "1776" also finds invigorating musical metaphors for the political process.