Visual Music

Cohesion with Visual Music

How do sounds interact with visuals?

How do you create cohesion between color/sound/form/movement/concept?

Ligeti - Artikulation

Synchromy - Norm McLaren

Dots - Norm McLaren

Matrix III - John Whitney

What is an intuitive mapping between sound and visuals?

Music exists in time, so perhaps clear mappings have to do more with movement and gesture (Spectromorphology) than with shape and color.

Photoplay

The metaphor here is that the music follows and enhances something else which is going on. The “composed” system is about mirroring interaction which is intended for something else.

Chrome Music Lab Kandinsky

Le voyage dans la lune