Scriabin’s Color Organ

from wikipedia:

Scriabin’s 1910 symphonic piece, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, includes a part for a “clavier à lumières” a color organ designed specifically for the performance of that one piece. It was played like a piano, but projected coloured light on a screen in the concert hall rather than sound. Most performances of the piece (including the premiere) have not included this light element…

Sources differ on what Scriabin’s intentions were for the realization of the color organ part: many state that the colors were meant to be shown on a screen in front of the audience; but others say that the colors were intended to flood the entire concert hall and that showing them on a screen was merely the compromise adopted after flooding the concert hall was found impossible or impracticable. The score itself contains no indications about how this is meant to be handled.

That’s so sad.  I really want to see a performance with the color organ filling the room.  It’s definitely interesting to listen to with that in mind. Here’s the linkela.