Auroratone is the name of a lost and forgotten treatment for depression, trauma and psychosis from the 1930s and 1940s.
Auroratone films combine music with crystal-like abstract color-patterns that change, transform and blend in with each other. The patterns were made by crystallizing chemicals and polarized light. The inventor is Cecil Stokes who was issued a patent for “Process and Apparatus for Producing Musical Rhythm in Color”.
30-minute Auroratone films were shown in theaters across the United States and Canada. It was used by psychiatrists to treat patients, especially veterans of war.
Dozens of Auroratone movies were made but sadly and strangely most of the material has gone “lost” – it cannot be found on the internet.
My reason for posting this:
Compare the feeling you get from watching just three minutes of Auroratone to watching three minutes of an AI-created movie.
Take the time to find an AI-created film reel, to watch it in full. Then watch the Auroratone film in full.
There’s a lot going on here.
Analog is more “real” than digital.
Color Therapy is real.
The alpha brainwave state and the hypnagogic state are mimicked by this slow color-blending technique.
Aesthetics can heal.
