VJing is somewhat really up-to-date way of a real time performance. Domain Video Jockey or VJ is generally used as a label for artists within the media arts of mixing video clips to music and sound on the fly. It creates some sort of meditative experience for the audience in synchronization to the music. Correlation between the visions of the artist and the experience of the audience is resulting in an augmented experience of the perceived music.

Mary Hallock-Greenewalt (1871-1951) is best known for her invention of a type of visual music she called Nourathar (Figure 27). The name for her art, Nourathar, was adapted from the Arabic word for light. Unlike the other inventors before, Marry Hallock never referred particular notes to a color. Instead she rather approached and reflected the artist’s ability to perform and their temperament. She always has stated that there is no direct correspondence between a sound and a color.

… There is no octave to color. Color has no harmonics. … Its pristine strength is such that no two colors can fit together as identical. [27]

Mary Hallock was committed to seek deeper connection between the abstract film and visual music performed with the color organs. In total she has patented eleven devices that can create visual music. She was an accomplished musician, but wanted to create an equivalent art form for colour and music.

Nowadays a VJ most likely deals with the connections between electronic music and different artistic practices. I am exited to see the creative potential of the technology and how it is shaping the modern sense of collectives. Through the rise of the internet adoption and technical possibilities also the electronic and rave festival scene began to regularly include VJs on their main stage.

This on-the-fly techinic is impressive by the way it shapes our sense of the collectives and feeling for the combined art forms. In my opinion VJing is a complementary service for a performance that should not overshadow any musical experience. Also somebody who prefers to use this method ideally should have to have a musical background and a strong fascination for both -music and visual arts. I perceive VJing more of a technic of production than a type of design. Artist who has a strong aesthetic vision and sense for visual and audial composition can use this technic to create designs. I guess if I would have to create artwork by using VJing methods it should come from the intuition rather than being based on a story line. Though analysis of the musicians or composers work is a vital first step in order to make sure that the following work is relevant. Additionally the end product should communicate with the listeners and create the metaphysical experience.

One of the aspects why I find it difficult to work this way is the fact that I am not sure about my abilities to give a real time response to the music or sound, since my experience in this field is less than modest. And yet I would also have to spare a time to have a rational contact with the auditory and the performer. During live events, there is not so much time to immediately go deeper in the reflections of the musical piece. Also at times, this kind of real time technic can cause confusion as the mind misinterprets the information from the senses. Even though this particular flaw can be experienced in any method used to interpret music. Overall it is a matter of communication with the audience, giving them what the artist expects them to see in order to get into a certain state of mind.