The term “Lumage” is made up of the words luminance and image. The piece aims to depict the intangible and immaterial nature of light, and to make it an optically representable physical reality. In his experiments with visual music, Gyenes uses his awareness that light is in fact electromagnetic radiation in a scientific sense. His installation functions as a “sound-reactive kinetic photogram”, focusing on voltage fluctuations transformed into sound. The aim of Lumage is to convert electroacoustic signals into visible, perceptible signals. The light patterns generated from sound give rise to varied movements that contain improvisation and randomness, a constructive aesthetic of “error”.

Zsolt Gyenes (1962, Hímesháza) uses the concept of “visible music,” i.e. the synaesthesia of visual and auditory experiences, and their correspondence to each other, to create his computer-interactive works.