A giant crystalline globe passes across the ocean to the  celestial sounds of a Mozart Sonata. It forms an exquisite therapeutic device for healing minds full of deep stress and anxiety. The mental turmoil of the onlooker is to become assimilated into the raging storm clouds of the angry heavens. Then the stormy heavens are reflected deeply into the glassy Globe as it spins across the ocean and slowly carries away over the horizon all the affliction and bitterness that has grieved the sufferer.

The haunting beauty of the music and the apocalyptic vision of the celestial sphere can strike an aesthetic spark in  the pit of one’s stomach and begin a healing chain- reaction to give relief and peace ‘that passes all understanding’.

The concept is based on the ‘Mozart Effect’ that covers the work of  some experimental psychologists who found that students who listened to Mozart’s music before an examination gained a certain percentage of extra marks, the theory being that it stimulated and opened more neural linkages, and even improved IQs. Color Academy was approached by a Japanese firm (ArtHouse Co.Ltd) to complement the music with appropriate colour in order to reinforce the aesthetic healing effect.  Pandora’ Globe was the only one  of a number of  animations that  Colour Academy completed itself, the others were designed in Japan. Color Academy also wrote a pamphlet ‘Brain Arts, the power to engross and improve minds using sound, shape and colour’ translated into Japanese in ‘The Magic Sound of Amadeus for Music and Visual Therapy’.