De la musique au-delà des frontières du son
Visual environments nowadays regularly accompany music. From the video clip to installations, web-art and cinema, audiovisual occupies a great part of our world and constitutes an important development pole of musical practices.  The mixing of sound and image is often attached to the history of cinema but the premises of audio-vision date back to Antiquity. The connections between sound and colors were first encountered with the Pythagoricians and the research surrounding these relationships is still pursued nowadays. Different technologies have paved the way to new formulations of this artistic decompartmentalization. In XIXth century, electricity enables the development of an experimental musical instrument fabrication research with Alexander Rimington’s color organ amongst others. These audiovisual instruments give birth later to Lumia, an art form willingly close to music and that renders nothing to hear.  In parallel to these new artistic propositions, a body of work later called Visual Music is emerging from early cinematographic avant-gardes. The possibilities offered by the filmic support opens to new ways of organizing color and movement. This hybrid art is then reformulated by video art practitioners before going through a vast phase of democratization with the advent of domestic computers in the early 1990.  I cover the different historic parts of these resolutely musical audiovisual practices. This summary is mainly made of art and theoretical works dotted with personal reflections. I comment the theoretical aspects attached to these artistic propositions by opposing another major audiovisual format: cinema.  All this in order to pave the way for a presentation and contextualization of my creative output. I propose Trombe (2011) and Lungta (2012), two propositions that inherit from visual music, interactive art and kinetic art.
Sémiotique lumia Color music Creative coding Visual Music Semiotics physical computing Interactive art