The invention of color music (and the instruments that perform it) is rooted in the similar way humans experience sound and light, two entirely unrelated phenomena that behave in similar ways ...

Harbisson taught his method to the musicians, explaining that instead of sheet music, they’d get flashes of colored light to tell them which note to play while on stage.

Newton’s Color Theory, ca. 1665 Newton’s rainbow forms the familiar ROYGBIV because he thought the range of visible colors should be analogous to the seven-note musical scale.

In Phase, it’s your goal to catch colored music notes by pressing the left, center and right buttons as the notes reach their targets.

advertisement 09-27-2013 TECH How To Write Music In Color Why use colors to indicate different notes? It’s easier to read for non-literate humans and robots alike–and it’s fun.