The Color Organ and Collaboration

Abstract

For over twenty years I have been occupied with the translation of music into sets of visual languages. This continuing evolution of language systems was needed in order to express the growing number of sound situations created by composers in the twentieth century. The latter part of that century demanded a flexible expansion of parameters because of increasingly complex patterns. It was natural that I would find myself wanting to move from two dimensions into three because this move carried an exponential increase in the number of systems available for possible manipulation while translating the different structural elements within a musical performance.