The Colour scale and the mobile colour

Alexander Wallace Rimington

01/01/1912

Eng

Colour, like music, is both precious for its own sake and as an educative influence. It also can stimulate the imagination and develop other mental faculties, can give pleasure and refreshment to the mind, and increase the responsiveness of the sense to which it appeals […] according to generally accepted scientific theory all colours are produced by varying frequencies of vibration of the ether acting upon the retina of the eye, and all musical sounds by varying frequencies of air vibration acting upon the ear. Both colour and sound, as we perceived them, are due to vibrations which stimulate the optic and aural nerves respectively.

Alexander Wallace Rimington, Colour Music. The Art of Mobile Colour, Hutchinson, 01/01/1912, Londra
tipologia Trattati e altre fonti teoriche
ambito Arti performative

pp. 16-17

Colour (Eng)

Colour Music (Eng)