Scriabin had many discussions with Rimsky-Korsakov, the Russian composer, about the association of music and colour. They discovered that they both felt that musical notes could be related directly to colours—therefore mixing art with the senses. Scriabin attempted to convey this discovery in his work. He even attempted to design a keyboard that would create colours during performance, but it proved unworkable.
As his music matured, Scriabin's work became very adventurous harmonically, and even approached...