Showing posts with label color and music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color and music. Show all posts

Wednesday 15 April 2009

The Great Color Music Debate


Color Music: The Art of Light


Painting music by colors is a subject which has occupied many a great mind down the centuries. The pondering goes along these lines. When one hears a particular musical sound one is drawn to a particular color or a particular sound is associated with a particular color or a color with a sound. Whether this is only a subjective experience on the part of the listener or whether we can draw a wider correlation between certain musical sounds and certain colors is open to debate.
“So let us then clear our own path through the jungle of untried possibilities, which prevents our seeing clearly how to use the attributes of color in a mobile color art somewhat resembling music.” ………. MORE

Monday 6 April 2009

Can There Really Be A Colour And Music Relationship ?


Colour and Music


Music and colour like music and emotions have inspired speculative discussions throughout the ages. Again, the ancient Greeks took a lead in these speculative inquiries. They were driven by a need to discover an integrated cosmology that colour and music formed a part of a harmonious universe. Fast forwarded to the seventeenth century and we have Isaac Newton’s discovery ......
“ of the refraction of white light into colours …….. and his decision to denote seven colours in association with the seven notes of the musical scale …MORE

Discover the Hurdy Gurdy: A Musical Journey Unveiling the Enchanting Sounds of a Timeless Instrument

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player (Le Joueur de Vielle) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Did you know that the hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument tha...