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5 Thomas Wilfred Lumia Compositions
Clavilux.org/Thomas Wilfred
DVD - 81 minutes
Released - 2007
NTSC - No Regional restrictions
Price $30.00
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Excerpts of 5 Lumia compositions from the Epstein Collection. Wilfred was a pioneer of Light Art, and coined the term Lumia to refer to an independent, silent art form. Available for the first time are sections from Opus 161 'untitled'(1966), Opus 140 "Visual Counterpoint"(1948), Opus 79 "Multidimensional" (1939), as well as Clavilux Jr's 91 and 95.
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The compositions featured in this video are what Wilfred referred to as "Recorded Lumia." Which is to say that the works are self contained mechanical instruments as opposed to the earlier manually operated Clavilux models.
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Born in 1889, Thomas Wilfred found success as an artist when still a young man.
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Raised in Denmark, he studied painting and poetry in France and England and was already well established as a Lute Player of great reknown before moving to the US and putting music aside to pursue his real passion of composing in an entirely new art form, Lumia. He built his first Clavilux instrument in 1919, and gave a spectacular public debut at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in 1922.
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