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Visual Music

In a (long) sentence, Visual Music is the result of aesthetic, preferably synaesthetic, integration of music and art, in which the art is as dynamic as the music, and may or may not have some direct relationship to the music. ie, an oscilloscope can provide a very direct relationship to the music, and can qualify, but a visual music composer has the license to extend the original composition into the visible octaves using simple, "tonal" visual primitives be they color swatches, or fully animated 3d models. It's all Visual Music.

Have you seen Disney's Fantasia? Well, that's the idea... (MTV is not the idea.)

Dr. Paradise is developing an implementation of a Light Synthesizer, a visual instrument (produces a digital video stream) which takes midi signals as inputs and translates that information into complex, dynamic graphical representations of the midi notes...

This clip shows the result of Iasos' "Golden Harp", a custom arpeggiated midi harp, and Dr. Paradise's Light Synthesizer, which turned that midi stream into visible graphics. It was a completely impromptu jam session but still serves as an excellent example of the potential of Visual Music...

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Dr. Paradise is pleased to announce the global unveiling of his latest invention, OrbitalFX(tm), a digital software simulation of analog oscillators, dynamically patchable to any of hundreds of the parameters normally used by the Abekas DVEOUS realtime digital video effects hardware.