According to the article, the Whitneys are influenced by Belson. They both find Eastern metaphysics essential to art, which can make the artist get a clearer idea about himself: who is he? What does he want as an artist? This kind of attitude towards the essential of the world makes them have the same essential of their work; that is, to eliminate the connection with the real world and create an ideal world which is totally abstracted from the realistic one. Instead of creating something connect to one’s own feeling or expression of one’s idea, visual music artists, especially the Whitneys and Belson, are trying to reaching a higher conceptual level, which reflects a superorganic and the abstract atmosphere around us. At the same time, their conceptual basis and their artworks influenced later generations a lot. The Whitneys created a new type of visual music which is aggressive and assault on eyes and ears strongly. It was rare at that time for visual music to have a strong connection between music and images, as former images were all created by getting inspiration from sounds, or on the contrary.
Although they shared the same aim at the original meaning of an artwork, the techniques they used to achieve the goal is quite different. As the senior of the Whitneys, Belson kept the old technology as well as the new one. He used standard animation, optical printing, lasers, and liquid crystals to achieve the final effect that he wanted, instead of what the Whitneys did. The Whitneys connected their idea and their techniques much more tightly than Belson did, as they eliminated the use of real objects and showed the origin of the image by reducing the image down to its most fundamental state with countless dots to represent the atomic based concept. They relieved abstraction from any representational reference and went beyond that by expressing the idea of the essence of the world, which was their original will. As the aim of both Belson and the brothers were showing the real abstraction and atmosphere of the world, the Whitneys used a better way to connect their idea and the real techniques together, which is the main difference between them.
The Vortex Concert had great impact on the development of visual music, as it changed the traditional restriction of painting which relies much on real materials into some abstract motions of images. With the tight connection of music and images, the Vortex Concert shortened the distance between artworks and their audiences, which also made art, a word usually considered to be high and abstract, closer and easier for ordinary people to accepted. It created a nice balance between traditional art and pop art. Like the psychedelic light created by a group of artists in Los Angeles, it was conveying a complex meaning through modern and trendy equipment, which was greatly influenced by the concept of Vortex Concert.