Ox, J - "The 21st Century Virtual Reality Color Organ"
AND
Ox, J & Frank, P - "The Systematic Translation of Musical Compositions into Paintings",
Leonardo, vol 17, no 3, 1984, pp 152‑158
"Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art & Music Since 1900",
Catalogue to "Visual Music" exhibition,
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington DC,
Thames & Hudson, London, 2005.
Smoje, D - "Colors of Bach's Music: Farbsymphonien in Jakob Weder's Painting",
Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography, vol XXIX, nos 1-2, 2004, pp 265-72.
Wejchert, K - "'Water Portraits': Colour Photographs of Reflections on Water Surfaces and an Audio-Visual Programme Based on Them",
Leonardo, vol 14, no 3, Summer 1981, pp 216-217.
Wells, A - "Music and Visual Color: A Proposed Correlation",
Leonardo, vol 13, no 2, Spring 1980, pp 101‑107.
"La Partie Carrée" (detail),
J-A Watteau, 1713.
Ignorant of the Truth within himself,
the fool is infatuated with books, like the
dull-witted shepherd who searches for a
goat in the well when it is in its enclosure.
--°-- Verbal knowledge is of no use for
overcoming the delusions of the world,
just as darkness does not cease to exist
merely by talking about a lamp.
Kularnava-Tantra
DE CLARIO
De Clario, D - "Seven-ness:sub-lunar" program notes,
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelburg, Vic, April-Oct 1995
AND
"Advantage of Seven" exhibition notes,
Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Vic, April 1997
AND
Domenico de Clario - recorded music
Berryman, J - "The Colour Treatment: A Convergence of Art and Medicine at the Red Cross Russell Lea Nerve Home",
Health and History, vol 18 no 1, 2016, pp 5-21.
"Colour in Art: Revisiting 1919",
exhibition catalogue & symposium papers,
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts,
University of New South Wales, August 2008
De Mestre, R - from Espacenet - European Patent Office [search terms: 'mestre' 'colour'] British Patent GB232,787 "Improvements in or relating to Colour Selecting Devices", 1925 [PDF 89 kB]
Dutton, G - "Artists' Portraits",
National Library, Canberra, 1992.
Eagle, M - "Australian Modern Painters Between the Wars 1914-1939",
Bay Books, Sydney, 1990.
Edwards, D and Peel, R - "Margaret Preston",
Art Gallery of NSW, 2005.
Gertsakis, E - "Roy de Maistre and Color Music, 1916-c1920",
unpublished thesis, Fine Arts IV, Nov 1975,
School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies, and Archeology, Melbourne University.
Johnson, H - "Roy de Maistre: the Austalian Years, 1894-1930",
Craftsman House, Roseville, NSW, 1988.
AND
"Roy de Maistre: the English Years, 1930‑1968",
Craftsman House, Roseville, NSW, 1995.
McDowell, K - "Colour Music",
Sea, Land and Air, vol 2, no 19, Oct 1919, pp 417-22.
Field, G - "Chromatics: or, the Analogy, Harmony, and Philosophy of Colours",
New augmented edition, David Bogue, London, 1845. [PDF 8.1 MB]
AND
Keyser, B W - "Science and Sensibility: Chemistry and the Aesthetics of Color in the Early Nineteenth Century",
Color Research and Application, vol 21, no 3, June 1996, pp 169‑79.
Garner, W - "The Relationship between Colour and Music",
Leonardo, vol 11, no 3, Summer, 1978, pp 225-226.
[Reprint from Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, 91, 1975, p 373.]
Klein, A B - "Colour-music: The Art of Light",
Crosby Lockwood & Son, London, 1926.
AND
"Colored Light, An Art Medium", 3rd ed,
Technical Press, London, 1937.
Payling, D, Mills, S & Howle, T - "Hue Music – Creating Timbral Soundscapes from Coloured Pictures",
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Auditory Display, Montréal, 2007. [PDF 406 kB]
Schooling, W - "Colour-Music: A Suggestion of a New Art",
The Nineteenth Century, vol XXXVIII, July 1895, pp 125-134.
Voltaire - “The elements of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy” (Eng. translation),
Chap XIV, “Of the Resemblance between the seven Primitive Colours and the seven Notes in Musick”, pp 149-158 [PDF borrowed on site]
Wilmer, C - "Color-Encoded Music Scores: What Visual Communication Can Do for Music Reading",
Leonardo, vol 28, no 2, 1995, pp 129‑136.
LITERATURE
"The Book Foole", woodcut from
"Narrenschiff", Sebastian Brant, 1494.
If on this ship I'm number one
For special reasons that was done.
Yes, I'm the first one here you see
Because I like my library.
Of splendid books I own no end.
But few that I can comprehend;
I cherish books of various ages
& keep the flies from off the pages...
Cassidy, D M - "Arthur Dove's Musical Paintings of the Jazz Age",
American Art Journal, vol 20, no 1, 1988, pp 4-23.
"Colour and Music",
"The New Oxford Companion to Music", vol 1, ed D Arnold,
Oxford University Press, 1983, pp 424‑432.
Darrigol. O - "The Analogy between Light and Sound in the History of Optics from the Ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton", Parts 1 & 2,
Centaurus, May 2010. vol 52, issue 2, pp 117‑155 & Aug 2010, vol 52, issue 3, pp 206‑257.
Eddy, A J - "Cubists and Post-Impressionism",
A C McClurg & Co. Chicago, 1914 (2nd ed. 1919),
Ch VIII, “Color Music”, pp 140-6 [PDF 21.5 MB]
Gage, J - "Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction",
Ch 13, "The Sound of Colour",
Thames & Hudson, London, 1995.
AND
"Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism",
Ch 9, "Newton and Painting",
Thames & Hudson, London, 1999
Gombrich, E H - "The Essential Gombrich: Selected Writings on Art and Culture",
incl "The Use of Colour and Its Effect" , interview with Bridget Riley, 1992,
Phaidon Press, London, 1996, p 161.
Luckiesh, M - "Color and its Applications",
Ch XV, "The Art of Mobile Colour", pp 312‑326,
D Van Nostrand, NY, 1927. [PDF 8.6 MB]
Nelson, T K -"Brahms's Fantasies: In Accorde with Max Klinger", Part I & Part II [PDFs 2.1 & 2.3 MB],
The American Brahms Society Newsletter, Vol XVIII, no 1, Spring 2000, pp 1-5 & Fall 2000, pp 4-6
Salmon, A L - "Colour in Music",
The Musical Times, vol 61, no 925. March 1, 1920, pp 162-163.
Schooling, W - "Colour-Music: A Suggestion of a New Art", 1893
"The Nineteenth Century", vol 38, July 1895, pp 125-134
Scott, C - "The Philosophy of Modernism - Its Connection with Music",
Ch XI, "The Hidden Aspects of Music", pp 97-109 &
Appendix I: "The Occult Relationship between Sound and Colour", pp 111-8,
Waverley Book Co, London, 1917. [PDF 11.2 MB]
Stasny, P - "Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893-1965) and the Bauhaus in Australia",
Bauhaus Transfers vol 24, issue 39, 2019, pp 226-244. [German]
Teniswood-Harvey, A M V - "Colour-Music: Musical Modelling in James McNeill Whistler's Art",
thesis, University of Tasmania, 2006.
Glover, S A - "Scheme for Rendering Psalmody Congregational",
Jarrold & Sons, Norwich, 1835.
AND
Southcott, J - "Glover's Intellectual Odyssey",
Proceedings of the AMEL 17th National Conference,
Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 1995, pp 83-90
Kuo, Y-T & Chuang, M-C - "A proposal of a color music notation system on a single melody for music beginners",
International Journal of Music Education, 2013, pp 1-19.
Monteith, E R - "Colour-Music: Experiments in the Educational Value of the Analogy between Sound and Colour",
Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 39th Session, 1912-13, pp 85‑102.
Rogers, G L - "Effect of Color-Coded Notation on Music Achievement of Elementary Instrumental Students",
Journal of Research in Music Education, vol 39, no 1, Spring 1991, pp 64-73
AND
"Effect of Colored Rhythmic Notation on Music-Reading Skills of Elementary Students",
Journal of Research in Music Education, vol 44, no 1, Spring 1996, pp 15-25.
Sargent Florence, M - Patent GB212316,"Improvements relating to indicators applicable to the teaching of music or the selection and combining of colours", 1924
Merman musician, early 14th century,
Palais de Justice, Beauvais.
FILM MAKERS
Abbado, A - "Perceptual Correspondences of Abstract Animation and Synthetic Sound",
Leonardo, Supplemental Issue, vol 1, Electronic Art, 1988, pp 3-5.
AND digital art
"Len Lye",
Len Lye Foundation & Govette-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ, 2009.
AND Lye, Len (1901-1980), BFI screenonline
AND
Kirker, A - "The Early Years in London", in
Art New Zealand 17, Spring 1980,
Memorial Edition, Len Lye 1901-1980
Ronald Pellegrino - video and music composer [videos]
AND
Pellegrino, R - "Cymatic Music: Towards a Metatheory of Harmonic Phenomena: My Interactive Compositions and Environments",
Leonardo, vol 16, no 2, Spring 1983, pp 120‑123.
AND
"The electronic arts of sound and light",
Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1983.
Russett, R & Starr, C - "Experimental Animation"
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, NY, 1976.
Salles, F - "Imagens Musicais ou Música Visual - um estudo sobre as afinidades entre som e imagem
baseados no filme 'Fantasia' (1940) de Walt Disney". [Portugese]
Peacock, K - "Instruments to Perform Color-Music: Two Centuries of Technological Experimentation" [PDF 1.1 MB]
Leonardo, Vol 21, No 4, pp 397-406, 1988
"The Ecstasy of St Cecilia" (detail),
Raphael Urbino, 1514.
INSTRUMENTS
Bishop, B - "A Souvenir Of the Color Organ, with some suggestions in regard to the Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light", [PDF 534 kB]
De Vinne Press, New Russia, NY,1893
AND US patent 0186298, "Improvement in attachments for key-board musical instruments", 1877 [PDF 245 kB]
McDowell, K - "Colour Music",
Sea, Land and Air, vol 2, no 19, Oct 1919, pp 417-22.
McFarlaine, J - "'Colour in Art' and Alexander Hector's Electric Colour Music Organ",
Art & Australia, vol 40, no 2, 2002, pp 292-7
Wierzbicki, J - "Shedding light on the 'colour music' of Sydney's Alexander B. Hector",
Musicology Australia 34 no 1, July 2012, pp 81-99 [PDF 291 kB]
AUSTRALIAN PATENTS [click Application no. then Specification]
AU1912003713: "Improvements in and relating to apparatus for the production of color music", 1912 [PDF 827 kB]
AU1916001299 & AU1916001936: "Improvements in and relating to apparatus for the production of colour music...", 1916 [PDFs 250 kB & 287 kB]
AU1916001412: "Improvements in and relating to apparatus for the production of 'colour music'...", 1916 [PDF 287 kB]
AU1926002810: "Improvements in producing colour music and other spectacular luminous effects", 1926 [PDF 623 kB]
AU1937004075: "Improvements relating to colour effects", 1937 [PDF 336 kB]
from Espacenet [click 3 dots at top right; choose downloads from dropdown]
BRITISH PATENTS
Patent GB191229615A: "Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Producing Music and Illuminated Spectacular Effects", 1913 [PDF 800 kB]
Patents GB107380A &
GB107767A: "Improvements in the Production of Colour Music and Apparatus therefor", 1918 [PDFs 376 kB &709 kB]
Patent GB109263A: "Improvements in and relating to the Production of Colour Music and Apparatus therefor", 1918 [PDF 404 kB]
Patent GB274468A: "Improvements in the Production of Colour Music and other Spectacular Luminous Effects", 1928 [PDF 1.3 MB]
EUROPEAN PATENTS
Patent FR485860A &
FR485928A: "Perfectionnements à la production de musique représentée sous forme de couleurs...", 1917 [French PDFs 328 kB & 508 kB]
Patent FR486612A: "Perfectionnements à la production de musique avec effets lumineux...", 1918 [French PDF 545 kB]
Patent FR637722A: "Perfectionnements dans les procédés de production de musique colorée...", 1928 [French PDF 1.3 MB]
Patent DE540306C: "Vorrichtung zum Hervorrufen musikalischer Farbeneffekte...", 1931 [German PDF 434 kB]
AMERICAN PATENTS [search term: patent number] -
US patent 1388706: "Apparatus for Producing Color-Music", 1921 [PDF 908 kB]
US patent 1432552: "Production of Color Music and other Luminous Effects and Apparatus therefor", 1922 [PDF 540 kB]
US patent 1432553: "Production of Color Music and other Luminous Effects and Apparatus therefor", 1922 [PDF 1.5 MB]
US patent 1728860: "Producing Color Music and other Spectacular Luminous Effects", 1929 [PDF 528 kB]
US patent 1783789: "Apparatus for Producing Color Music or other Spectacular Luminous Effects", 1930 [PDF 528 kB]
OPTOPHONES
Donguy, J - "Machine Head: Raoul Hausmann and the Optophone",
Leonardo, vol 34 no 3, 2001, pp 217-220.
Wilfred, T - "Light and the Artist",
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol 5 no 4, June 1947, pp 247-255
AND
"Composing in the Art of Lumia",
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol 7 no 2, Dec 1948, pp 79-93.
Watts Hughes, M - Voice-Figures,
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, vol 42, May-Oct 1891, pp 37-44 [PDF 88.7 MB]
AND
"Voice Figures, with Illustrations"
Proceedings of the Musical Association, 13th session, 1886-7, pp 133-44.
Mermaid musician, early 14th century,
Palais de Justice, Beauvais.
Bacci, F & Melcher, D - "Making Sense of Art, making Art of Sense",
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Baron-Cohen, S & Harrison, J - "Synaesthesia: An Account of Coloured Hearing",
Leonardo, vol 27, no 4, 1994, pp 343‑346.
Berman, G - "Synesthesia and the Arts",
Leonardo, vol 32, no 1, 1999, pp 15‑22.
Bernard, J W - "Messiaen's Synaesthesia: The Correspondence between Color and Sound Structure in His Music",
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol 4, no 1, Fall 1986, pp 41-68.
Dworak, P E - "Color Harmonies and Color Spaces Used by Olivier Messiaen in Couleurs de la cité céleste",
College of Music, University of North Texas.
Flynn, E N - "Liberation of the Senses: An Exploration of Sound-Color Synesthesia in the Music of Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen" [PDF 2.9 MB]
Fraser-Harris, D F - "Coloured Thinking and other studies in Science and Literature",
George Routledge & Sons Ltd, London, 1928, pp 1- 31.
Galeyev, B M - "The Problem of Synaesthesia in the Arts",
Languages of Design 1, 1993, pp 201‑203
AND
"Evolution of Gravitational Synesthesia in Music: To Color and Light!"
Leonardo, vol 36, no 2, 2003, pp 129‑134.
Messiaen, O & Watts, H - “Canyons, Colours and Birds: An Interview with Oliver Messiaen”,
Tempo, New Series no 128, March 1979, pp 2-8
Myers, C S - "Two Cases of Synaesthesia",
British Journal of Psychology, vol 7, Issue1, May 1914, pp 112-117 [PDF 852 kB]
Odin, S - "Blossom Scents Take Up the Ringing: Synaesthesia in Japanese and Western Aesthetics",
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol 69, no 3, Fall 1986, pp 256-281.
Steen, C - "Visions Shared: A Firsthand Look into Synesthesia and Art",
Leonardo, vol 34 no 3, 2001, pp 203‑8.
AND "Carol Steen, painter of sounds",
Australian Art Review, July—Oct 2006.
AND Dr Richard Cytowic & Carol Steen, 8/7/96,
transcript of interview, ABC Radio National, Health Report.
Zilczer, J - "Synaesthesia and Popular Culture: Arthur Dove, George Gershwin, and the 'Rhapsody in Blue'",
Art Journal, vol 44, no 4, Winter 1984, pp 361-366
AND
"'Color Music': Synaesthesia & 19th-Century Sources for Abstract Art",
Artibus et Historiae, vol 8, no 16, 1987, pp 01-126.
"The Angel of the Annunciation" (detail),
Fra Angelico, c1450.
...Now I could see
No chance had brought me to this library.
I spied the back and edges of a folio
Aglow with all the colours of the rainbow,
In hand-painted title stating a decree:
'The interrelationships of hues and sound:
Proof that for every colour may be found
In music a proper corresponding key.'
Choirs of colors sparkled before my eyes
And now I was beginning to surmise:
Here was the library of Paradise.
Hermann Hesse,
from "The Glass Bead Game", 1943.
RESEARCH
Australian Broadcasting Commission, Radio National transcripts:
Health Report - interview with Dr Peter Grossenbacher, 18/12/2000
Ockham's Razor - interview with Professor John Bradshaw, 28/11/99
Science Show - interview with Anina Rich, 31/3/2001
Hubbard, T L - "Synesthesia-like Mappings of Lightness, Pitch, and Melodic Interval",
The American Journal of Psychology, vol 109, no 2, Summer 1996, pp 219-238.
Penrose, R - "The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind",
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
AND "The Shadows of the Mind" excerpt
Psyche, an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness [archive]
Sacks, O - "Seeing Voices",
Picador, UCLA Press, 1989.
AND
"An Anthropologist on Mars",
Picador, London, 1995.
AND
"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain",
Picador, London, 2007.
Cariani, P - "To evolve an ear: epistemological implications
of Gordon Pask's electrochemical devices",
Systems Research vol 10 no 3, pp 19-33, [PDF 852 kB]
"And being now at some pause, looking back into that I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, as far as a man can judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are in tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands."
Francis Bacon, Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane, 1605.
