Visual music, sometimes called "
colour music," refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can also include
silent films or silent
Lumia work. It also refers to methods or devices which can translate sounds or music into a related visual presentation. An expanded definition may include the translation of music to painting; this was the original definition of the term, as coined by
Roger Fry in 1912 to describe the work of
Kandinsky.