Visual Art Responding to Music

Flame Orchard, a 20-foot (6-metre) field of burning gas flames that respond to music, designed by Gyorgy Kepes in collaboration with William Walton, Paul Earls, and Mauricio Bueno, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., 1972.

The Futureheads have come up with a nifty way to celebrate their tenth birthday with a project that not only delivers some awesome affordable art, but it’s all for charity too. For the ‘FH10′ project, the band sent some of the UK’s most respected artists one of their four albums, asking them to respond to the music as if creating the cover for the first time. The Futureheads

Oskar Fischinger paintings form the 1960's

Illustration 1 : DE MAISTRE'S COLOUR HARMONIZING CHART Roy De Maistre

"RHYTHMIC COMPOSITION IN YELLOW GREEN MINOR" "THE ORGANIST"

Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music. Wassily Kandinsky Composition IV 1911 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, x cm (62 7/8 x 98 5/8 in)

Composition VII 1913 (200 Kb); Oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm (6' 6 3/4" x 9' 11 1/8")

Henri Matisse Among his first adventures with paper cut-outs was a cheerful book called Jazz, which Matisse prepared during the war but which was only published in 1947

Pablo Picasso Three Musicians, or Musicians in Masks Oil on canvas

Anne Salz, a Dutch musician and visual artist, perceives music in colored patterns. She describes her painting inspired by Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins: Vivaldi by Ann Salz; Oil on Board, 50 x 50 cm;2003 "The painting represents the opening of the concerto for four violins. I listen to the music while I paint. First, the music gives me an optimistic, happy feeling and I perceive red, yellow, and orange colors in a great variety with little contrast. It looks like a field of these colors. I perceive the color field as a musical chord. You can compare it with the colors of a blanket or cover made of autumn leaves." Anne Salz Synesthesia in art

The Blue Rider ( Der Blaue Reiter ) The Blue Rider (or in German Der Blaue Reiter) was a German Expressionist movement that was established in December 1911 by Kandinsky, Marc and Gabriele M ü nter. Paul Klee ( ) Ad Parnassum (oil on board, 1932 ) August Macke, Curcus Picture II: Pair of Athletes, Clown and Monkey

Franz Marc Fighting Forms oil painting Music visualization, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music. The imagery is usually generated and rendered in real time and synchronized with the music as it is played.media playersoftware imagery Screenshot of preset included in MilkDrop version 1.04dMilkDrop