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Synaesthesia · Jul 1, 05:17 PM by Hout
Aah, the senses, them beautiful senses… Ever experienced two sensations simultaneously? Some people say they saw colors when they heard sounds, or they heard sounds when they ate something (‘Shrooms?). The condition was called synaesthesia.
So what might visual art look like if it were akin to music? Well, a lot like visual music, I guess!
One of the earliest examples is the movie Allures (1961) by Jordan Belson.
Belson is said to be able to “extract 10 tons of poetry from the reflections off the hood of a 1949 truck”. George Lucas had abstractions like Belson’s in mind when he designed the close-ups of clashing lightsaber beams for the Anakin/Dooku showdown in Attack of the Clones.
Thomas Wilfred’s “Study in Depth, Opus 152.”
Wilfred, a Danish lute player, used an instrument called the clavilux to produce light displays like above.
If you want to produce your own visual music, I suggest that you use Bomb.
