Category:Color organs
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References[edit]
- Amy Alexander, Nick Collins (2017 [2006]) "7. Live Audiovisuals — Colour Organs and Visual Music" in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, Cambridge University Press, pp. 124-125 ISBN: 9781107133556. "Louis Bertrand Casterl's first theoretical writing on the colour organ appeared in 1725, and acknowledges a debt to Athanasius Kircher's popularisation of the magic lantern (1646) and Isaac Newton's speculations aligning the spectrum to the diatonic scale (1704). ... clavecin oculaire (ocular harpsichord), ... A small-scale prototype model was built by 1734, and whilst it is unlikely that he managed to construct any large-scale fully functioning color organ (Peacock 1988), in principle his key-operated candle covers could reveal light through coloured paper filters under the control of an operator. ... "
- "Color organ" in Don Michael Randel , ed. (2003) The Harvard Dictionary of Music (4th ed.), Harvard University Press, pp. 335 ISBN: 978-0-674-41799-1. "Color organ. An instrument for manipulating colors in a fashion analogous to that in which an organ manipulates sounds. ... The advent of electricity permitted the invention of much more sophisticated instruments. These included A. Wallace Remington's Color Organ (1895), Adrian Bernard Klein's Color Projector (1921), Thomas Wilfrid's Clavilux (1925), Alexander László's Color Piano (1925), and George Lawrence Hall's Musichrome (1930s). ... Wilfrid and others, however, sought to develop a new and independent visual art by analogy with music. Scriabin's Prometheus: Poem of Fire (1910) specifies the use of a keyboard instrument (lt. tastiera per luce) for projecting colors. ... "
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
C
- Color organ by John P. Jones (9 F)
F
- Fire organs (14 F)
H
- Mary Hallock-Greenewalt (4 F)
S
- Scriabin keyboards (4 F)
- SWTPC color organ kits (5 F)
Media in category "Color organs"
The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total.
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A caricature of Louis-Bertrand Castel's "ocular organ".jpg 900 × 1,155; 205 KB
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Application Theremino SkrjabinPiano.jpg 1,504 × 1,000; 949 KB
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Cana Kit Color Organ circuit board.jpg 800 × 600; 71 KB
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Lichtorgel + Blitzlicht.jpg 2,816 × 2,112; 215 KB
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Revised Color Organ Figure 1.JPG 2,078 × 1,542; 318 KB
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Revised Color Organ Figure 2.JPG 2,592 × 1,944; 1.97 MB
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Rimington's Colour-Organ 2.jpg 205 × 309; 27 KB
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Sarabet color organ with Mary Hallock Greenewalt.gif 400 × 280; 88 KB
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SWTPC Catalog 1972 Page08.jpg 1,256 × 1,884; 350 KB
