Not even joking, my mind feels like information overload, there is SO much to look at!! So I was trying to look at so much stuff and I was just confusing myself so I am just going to start at the beginning, making a timeline of significant people, ideas and projects so my mind can work better! OK....
Around 1742 (1725 when the idea came about) - The first "colour organ" designed and constructed by Louis-Bertrand Castel. It was a stringed instrument with moving transparent and colour tapes. It used seven colours which tied to the seven whole notes.
In relation to Castel's "organ machine", as I was doing research into his colour association with music notes, I started finding out how it has changed and different people take on it. Here is a chart which visualizes the past three century's debate on which colour goes to which note, its quite interesting!
Looking more into colour theory I started looking at the association with colour to emotions. As I will be doing a visual piece I have to be ever aware of colour association how that maybe the viewers feelings can be manipulated. Here is an example of "standard" colour association:
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