Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968) was one of the pioneers of visual sound and music and called his art Lumia, the art of light. He created Clavilux Machines that would compose compositions of coloured light over a surface of projection. Wilfred’s instruments were designed to project coloured imagery, not just fields of colored light as with earlier instruments.
This marked a shift in change of how sound was being seen. The Lumia projections were new and different from what artists had already tried with motion graphics. It was truly abstract and had no fixed shape.
“You could look at a piece of Lumia and feel that you’re hearing music, or feel a sensation of warmth or cold, or taste a flavour – or it may even evoke the fragrance of flowers or recall a memory. It’s a visual synaethetic expression.” - Stadnik
Below is a still from Wilfred's 'Opus 140'.
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