Color organ

The colors Piano ( also Piano eyes ) is a keyboard instrument. By depressing the keys visual impressions such as light projections is produced. In addition, the acoustic sounds of the piano can be heard.

Louis -Bertrand Castel

The French mathematician and Jesuit Louis -Bertrand Castel developed in 1725 the first drafts of a color organ. By pressing a button a button appeared associated color. The twelve chromatic tones an octave were assigned to twelve different colors. According to the pitch the color brightness has been adjusted. The higher the tone, the brighter the colors were.

Alexander Scriabin

The Russian composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915) created as synesthetes probably the first " light show " of the world: he created with his Prometheus (Op. 60) in the years 1910/11 for the first time an orchestral work with a partner for a color organ. The work for choir, orchestra and color piano was premiered in 1915 in New York. Here we used a de facto silent clavier à lumière.

Further developments

Among other things, Russia's Vladimir Davidovich Baranov - Rossiné (1917 ), Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack and Kurt Schwerdtfeger ( Bauhaus, 1923), the Hungarian pianist and composer Alexander Laszlo (1925 ) and the Dadaist poet Raoul Hausmann ( 1927) developed in the following years the color piano on. Around 1960 the first electronic light organs were developed and eventually make today's keyboards along with laser technology or projection lamps successor to the original colors piano dar.

Idea

The different developments of the color light music, including the piano is one color, combines the same idea: by the combination of all the arts to create a holistic work of art. Whether Caspar David Friedrich, Arnold Schoenberg, Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen and Wassily Kandinsky, these artists were inspired the idea of the unification of all the arts and also they tried to realize this. For example, Arnold Schoenberg in his work describes the lucky hand exactly which colors the stage to be lit and are in the score to exactly when and how the colors should change.

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