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Music has always had visual dimensionsthe shape ofinstruments, the pattern of notes on the page, themovement of the players and listeners, album cover art,stage lighting, even music videos. But seeds of a new,more intimate relationship between hearing and seeingmusic have been sown over the past two centuries andare beginning to bear fruit. The resulting art has beencalled by a variety of names, including visual music,color music, mobile color and absolute cinema. I preferthe name lumia. Lumia are pieces, like songs, created byvisual artists. Some are essentially compositional intheir structure, othersinclude improvisational elements. Lumia are the result,in part, of the visual artist's fascination with the impactof music on listeners.What is it about music that has evoked the envy ofpainters and other visual artists? In a lecture he gave in1882, Oscar Wilde suggested that it is because "musicis the art in which form and matter are always one, theart whose subject cannot be separated from the methodof its expression, the art which most completely realizesthe artistic ideal, and is the condition to which all otherarts are constantly aspiring" .Lumia are an art form that shares much in commonwith music. They are dynamic, based on essentiallyunlimited combinations of simple elements, are capableof expressing a broad range of human emotion andexperience, and can be created in real time. With lumia,artists have begun to make paintings move like music,
and even to link them with music.
The idea that visual arts and music might be played
together really took root in the early decades of the
twentieth century, though it appeared as an idea even in
the writings of Newton and Leonardo. Attempts to
realize this vision can be seen as early as the eighteenth
century, with the invention of color organs. Many artists
of the early twentieth century wrote about how music
and painting could be related, some of them even
building machines to explore the movement of color
and form directly. In the earliest days of
film, a small number of filmmakers
turned their attention to abstract works
that they often designed to accompany
musical performances. Computer and
video technology now make it possible to
achieve what could only be dreamed of
then
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