RhythmicLight.com

News of changes, events and new releases.

Lumia, images and links to other sites where people are creating dynamic visual art.

Software and ideas for creating your own lumia, including instruments to connect sound and vision.

Order visual music for your computer.

Comments from visitors like you.

Credits, footnotes, bios, and other loose ends.

Annotated bibliographies, books, a timeline, profiles of pioneers, and other historical and background material.

This site is an introduction to the fine art of playing images in the way that musicians play with sound. It is an art that has been almost three centuries in the birthing and that has gone by a variety of names—visual music, color music, audio-visual-music, motion graphics, synchromy, and lumia. Site highlights include:

An annotated bibliography describing over 60 books and articles related to visual music, color, form, motion, design and related topics

Full-text versions of classic works in the field

A time-line detailing the history of the field, brief bios of early pioneers, and discussions of interesting ideas in the field

Images and sequences from my Unauthorized Duets CD

And descriptions of the best places on the web to learn more about the artists, instruments, and history

The August-Spetember 2007 issue of Offscreen has several articles on Visual Music, including my essay "Visual Music as a Performing Art". I also wrote an expanded version of that essay with the expanded title As visual music (re)asserts itself as a performance art".