Colour Music
type: Item
label: Kleurmuziek @nl
label: Musik und Farbe @de
label: Barevná hudba @cs
label: Musica a colori @it
label: Música en color @es
label: Färgad musik @sv
description: An art on the margins
description: Een kunst in de zijlijn @nl
description: Eine Kunst im Abseits @de
description: Umění na okraji @cs
description: Un'arte ai margini @it
description: Un arte en los márgenes @es
description: En konst på marignalen @sv
Canon story number: 70
Canon story code: J.07
Canon story topic: Unexpected stories
Field: lighting and projection
Field: artistic production
Link to internal Canonbase page: Colour_Music
Link to internal Canonbase page: Kleurmuziek
Instance of: Canon stories
Canon story description: For centuries, people have dreamt of a kind of performance that uses light and colour in the way music uses sound. Many attempts have been made, including one by the theatre technologist Fred Bentham, but Colour Music has remained a marginal artform.
time frame: Inter-war Period
Canon story refers to: Fred Bentham
Canon story refers to: Light Console
Canon story refers to: resistance dimmer
Canon story refers to: grand master