Back in the 1910s, Russian composer Alexander Scriabin was developing multimedia art that incorporated a series of colored light bulbs corresponding to particular organ tones. Though it’s debated that Scriabin actually had synaesthesia, his works strongly tied sound to color, a common tendecy of synesthetes. [Veer]

Scriabin had previously premiered the use of a ‘tastiera per luce’ – a kind of light keyboard or ‘colour organ’ where coloured light bulbs glowed in accordance to particular musical notes. As per the multicoloured keyboard above, for Scriabin C major was red, D yellow and so on.