Tocando imagens: dispositivos e técnicas da Visual Music

Abstract

The research deals with many technological tools used by artists to create and execute works of Visual Music from the first experiments with Color Organs in the eighteenth century until the contemporary production, showing how these instruments interfere in the final artistic result. The objective of the project is to show how each instrument ends up guiding the artistic creation, either by its possibilities or by its limitations. Using examples of works in this area carried out mainly in the 20th and 21st centuries, we intend to show the diversity of production and its direct influence on the result created by the artists. In the cases study, keyartists within this area were carefully chosen and analyzed in order to understand how the instruments they invented fulfilled their conceptual aspirations, expanding their artistic potential and serving as inspiration for later generations. The research also involves a delimitation of the concept of Visual Music, its grammar and influence on other genres ofaudiovisual, presenting possible unfolding of its principles. The research is based mainly on the concepts of Gilbert Simondon on technical objects, and Wassily Kandinsky on the possible modes of relation between sound and image, among other important authors of thearea.