vis-music-chrono.txt, cr 24 jan 2008 by rha on thales2

Chronology of visual music

1730, father castel, optical harpsichord
1789, erasmus darwin, color projections

1844, d d jameson, color projections
1869, frederic kastner, colors and sounds 
1877, bainbridge bishop, color organ
1893, alexander wallace rimington, color organ patent

1909, bruno corra arnoldo ginna, color organ
1909, arnold schonberg, musical drama with colored lights
1911, alexander scriabin, music with colored lights composed
1912, "visual music" term coined by roger fry
1912, leopold survage, animated color film proposed ***
1914, kandinsky, music drama with colored lights
1915, alexander wallace rimington, scriabin premiere
1919, viking eggeling, first purely abstract film ***
1919, mary hallock-greenewalt, rheostat, color organ (silent concerts, music viz)
1920, hans richter, animated films ***
1920, walter ruttman and oskar fischinger, abstract animation films ***
1921, walter ruttman, films shown in frankfort ***
1925, alexander laszlo, color organ
1927-31, oskar fishinger films shown worldwide ***
1930, thomas wilfred, lumia, clavilux, lumina theater
1934, mary ellen bute, animated films ***
1936, charles dockum, color organ, mobilcolor
1939, John and James Whitney, Twenty-Four Variations, their first abstract film ***
1940, oskar fishinger, lumigraph (color organ)
1941, Harry Smith, early animated films, images batiked directly onto film *** 
1953, jordan belson, mandala ***
1957, JB, vortex concerts in SF planetarium
1957, James W, yantra (hand drawn) ***
1961, john whitney, catalog ***
1961. JB, allures ***
1968, John W, permutation ***
1968, 2001: a space odyssey stargate sequence ***
1971, John W, matrix ***
1974, Larry Cuba, first fig ***
1974, laurie spiegel ***
1975, John W, arabesque ***
1980, JW book, digital harmony
1985, Larry Cuba, calculated movements ***



refs
William Moritz, The dream of color music, and the machines that made it possible
	http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.1/articles/moritz2.1.html
William Moritz, absolute fillm, 1999
	http://iotacenter.org/visualmusic/articles/moritz/absolute
Rhythmic Light, http://rhythmiclight.com/archives/timeline.html


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