TY - CHAP AB - Abstract The artistic object is born from an initial moment or state that triggers a creative or creation process. This beginning is described by many as a fleeting moment during which a creative idea suddenly arises. I consider here that a creative vision is something that occurs in a very similar way, being able to capture a unified all like the finished artistic object, even if it amounts to a micro instant. This phenomenon uncovers a new form of capturing time and, therefore, a way to face temporality; the past, present and future are united and blend to originate new meanings.The ‘vision of death’ is a concept that I explored in a musical composition, more specifically in the work Death Vision (On a January Day), in which performance becomes its possibility for representation and materialisation. The composition of the work arises from a personal vision of death, yet, to the performer, it is a construction of his or her own vision through musical interpretation. Be it in ‘vision’ as in ‘death’, some musical aspects connected with time stand out and communicate between themselves in a subtle manner. I will identify these moments through some examples of performances and representations in a cinematographic context, such as Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders (1987),Scena by Tomás Maia and André Maranha (2008) and Vai-e-vem by João César Monteiro (2003), where the visual plan is preponderant.I will conclude that vision brings with it the possibility to intersect the real and give time back to what it has been missing: its unity. On the other hand, the vision of death in the musical performance finds its moment of fruition in linear time – in the possibility of openness and positivity that time itself gives. SN - 978-1-83867-945-3, 978-1-83867-946-0/ DO - 10.1108/978-1-83867-945-320191013 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-945-320191013 AU - Mendonça Sílvia ED - Marie Josephine Bennett ED - David Gracon PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/01/01 TI - The Vision of Death: Time and Temporality T2 - Music and Death: Interdisciplinary Readings and Perspectives T3 - Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 81 EP - 91 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -