Visual music From the color organs to the first computers

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Published 2018-07-13
DOI https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.19463
Carlos Manuel García Miragall
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Francisco Sanmartín Piquer
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Trinidad Gracia Bensa
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Abstract

The idea of obtaining images from music has been treated over the centuries; not as an independent movement but always within the cultural and technological context of each era. This historical effort can be grouped into what has come to be called visual music, sound visualization or visual sound that bases its nature on the notion of synesthesia (Brougher 2005).The field of visual music has always been marked by the technological media involved in the creation of images. In this work, we conducted a historical review of some of the contributions that we consider most relevant, focusing on the relationship between technology and art. Our historical review begins with the first intuitions of the Greek philosophers to relate color and sound and ends at the beginning of the digital age.

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García Miragall, Carlos Manuel, Francisco Sanmartín Piquer, and Trinidad Gracia Bensa. 2018. “Visual Music: From the Color Organs to the First Computers”. AusArt 6 (1). https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.19463.
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Keywords

AUDIOVISUALIZATION, VISUAL MUSIC, DATA VISUALIZATION, SOFTWARE ART, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND

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