MUSIC AND COLOUR

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 45, 21 February 1913, Page 4

MUSIC AND COLOUR

\A,ii invention by Mr Alexander B. Hector, the Sydney manager of ai important firm of chemists, has been receiving some attention in Australia. Mr Hector had for years been Invcs ti gating the co-relation of music «ni colour, with the result that he had become convinced that the seven note; of the musical scale corresponded will the seven colours of the solar spectrum, and had invented a method bj which the striking of any note on the organ was simultaneously accompanies by the corresponding colour liarmony A somewhat similar invention, tin Otago Daily Times remarks, was announced about the same time by Pro fessor A. Wallace Rimington, Profcssm of Fine Arts in Queen’s College, Lon don, who published an interesting boolon the subject; but while his coloui harmonies are produced mechanically. Mr Hector secures his results b> means of electricity, and the latterh equipment is simple that its cosi is' infinitely less than the more in tricato system of the distinguished professor. Mr Hector is satisfied that there are immense possibilities in the discovery, even apart from the de mand that is likely to arise for the colour attachments in connection with music for the home, the concert room, the church, and the theatre. Ihe svste-m, he says, could be used to illuminate designs of any form, and tin touching of any of the 61 keys of the organ could be made to operate am number of lights of the corresponding colour that might be required; earn key, ho says, could control 1000 o even 10,000 lights it would be simph a matter of expense. But Mr Hec tor’s predictions extend even beyont this. As each key of the organ ha; its individual electric attachment, anc controls a separate light, au impoi tant addition, he says, could he made so as to bring the signalling hammei of a wireless telegraphic machine int< connection.