Visual Music is a visual arts tradition in which artists participate in musical practices and discourses to make primarily visual work. Watch Viking Eggeling's Diagonale Symphonie (1924) for the first work of visual music; for later favorites, the works of Oskar Fischinger and James Whitney.

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Blooms are three visual music études commissioned by Berlin's Golden Parachutes Gallery as part of their exhibition, Total Vivid Presence. The animations are projected onto a canvas in a perpetual loop throughout each day. The first is a study in nested circles, the radii of which expand and shrink gradually over time with a period of four minutes:

The second applies the musical idea of noise to the relative scribbliness of a drawing:

And the third applies the idea of rhythmic phasing to the rotation of three identical, overlapping figures:

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