Visible Music
Visible Music projects are carried out “live” by artists with converted electronic musical instruments.
In contrast to a visualization or a video projection, the content approach lies in the tension between tone color and color tone . Different light sources such as oscillator ( Robert Moog ), monitor ( Charlotte Moorman ), neon tube ( Laurie Anderson ), light barrier ( Franz Manfred Seifert ) or laser (Carson Dunning Jeffries) awaken a dichotomy between acoustic and optical stimuli in the viewer or listener. From the 1960s onwards, visible music projects differ from physical experiments in that avant-garde artists deal with scientific findings in their work.
From 1979 onwards, the Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society in Linz offered many multimedia artists the opportunity to realize such projects.