Visual Music
ヴィジュアル・ミュージック / 1920s– / Motion / Experimental Film
The art of translating musical structure into abstract shape, color and motion — from color organs through abstract animation to today's audiovisual work, the lineage of listening with the eyes.
Abstract forms in motion / Chords of color / Counterpoint of sound and shape / No narrative
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Oskar Fischinger / Mary Ellen Bute / Thomas Wilfred's lumia