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FormThe importance of form in visualmusic is not self-evident. Clearly theremust be changing color (even if onlymonochromatic variation). But what ofform? The ambivalence of earlyexperimenters is evident in thisobservation from Rimington, writing in1911:The author has made many experimentswith regard to the introduction of form, asthe painter understands it, in the colourprojected upon the screen, and has cometo the conclusion that if used at all it shouldbe indefinite or merely decorative and notin any sense realistic. The kind of form, forinstance, which we see in cirrus clouds,while very beautiful in itself, has no definitemeaning and is not calculated to distractthe mind from the beauty of the cloudcolour and yet is sufficiently interesting initself. This kind of form introduced into thecolour perhaps gives an added interest to itin slow compositions, but in rapid ones theeye and the mind have quite enough to doto appreciate and enjoy the color itselfwithout the addition of form, which wouldseem to be an unnecessary complication[18].While remaining generallysubordinated to color, form did come toplay an important role in the design ofcolor instruments. As successivegenerations of instrument makers creatednew designs, they often addressed theproblems associated with expressing formin the work of their predecessors. Oneexample is Klein's evaluation of aperformance by Thomas Wilfred:Wilfred's compositions make frequent useof a series of forms which owe theirstructure to the geometrical formation of thetungsten filament of the gas-filled projectorlamp used in the "Clavilux"; and the initiatedcould not avoid being irritated by observingthe obvious fact that so many of the formswere merely the image of a familiarilluminating contrivance.If we are to have form in colour-music, thatform must be as much the intention of theartist as it is in painting, and not dependenton chance circumstances
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