Conclusions
Lumia are an art form that allows
visual artists to play images much as
musicians play with sounds. They can be
structured in terms of three primary
dimensions-color, form, and motion.
Painters have a long history of interest in
these, particularly color and form. They
have formulated principles for using them
to achieve particular psychological and
emotional effects. More recently, kinetic
artists and filmmakers have developed
similar principles for the use of motion.
Together with ideas developed by
composers, these principles can provide
artists with certain jumping-off points as
well as with solutions to problems
encountered when integrating visual and
musical performances.
Rhythm has played a particularly
important role in the thinking of painters
who have been interested in the
relationship of music to their work. There
is a rhythmic element to each of the three
dimensions. The changing of colors is
rhythmic, the ways in which forms are
arranged (even in static images) is often
described in terms of rhythm, and
movement in time is inherently rhythmic.
This suggests that rhythm constitutes a
particularly rich point of entry for the
design of instruments and for the
development of technique for playing
visuals in performance with music.