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New Online Resource - CVM Collections and Archive - Patreon Channel
The Center for Visual Music ( CVM ) has set up a a library, gallery and archive of the history of Visual Music at Patreon. Become a member at a range of prices to access exclusive content of relevance to the history and contemporary practice of visual music. More info on CVM's collection "has the world’s largest collection of Visual Music-related materials. The collections include papers, films and artwork by Oskar Fischinger; the original research collection of animation historian Dr. William Moritz, and collections covering the history of Visual Music: artists, exhibitions, theories, color organs, vintage instruments, Expanded Cinema, performances, historic events, 1960s psychedelic light shows and more." [ source ] For more inform…

Call for Paper Submissions - Exploring and Preserving Visual Music Symposium
http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium/CFP.html PRESS RELEASE from CVM: CFP: CVM Symposium 2018 Exploring and Preserving Visual Music In association with Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California August 14-16, 2018 Deadline for submissions: March 23, 2017 Website:  http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium/CFP.html Center for Visual Music ( CVM ) is pleased to announce its call for paper submissions for a Symposium on Visual Music, August 14-16, 2018, in association with Sonoma State University. The symposium will explore the theories, histories, and practices of visual music. It features two days of keynote talks and presentations from international scholars, artists, curators and students, plus a final half day of special…

NEW: Oskar Fischinger DVD - Available to order at CVM
Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music CVM (Center for Visual Music) has just released a new Oskar Fischinger DVD available now to order from CVM, entitled:  Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music The DVD features the following works: Study no. 2, c. 1930, silent Study no. 5, 1930 Study no. 8, 1931 Coloratura, 1932 Muratti greift ein (Muratti Marches On), 1934 Swiss Trip (Rivers and Landscapes), 1934 Komposition in Blau (Composition in Blue), 1935 ( excerpt online ) An American March, 1941 with bonus features: Pierrette I, 1924-26 1920s-30s Home Movies and Experiments, Berlin (black and white) Squares fragment (1934) and various 1930s color animation tests, image below (note, Squares image is from original artwork painted for the film) "Concerto" and ne…

Colour Music Recollections - Sonic Acts, 2012
As part of the Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time Festival,  a programme on Colour Music is being shown on 24th February, 2012 Colour Music Recollections De Balie Friday 24 February 17:00 - 18:30 "A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles Dockum on his ‘Mobilcolor’ instrument, the first recreation of Oskar Fischinger‘s multi-projector shows and a rare screening of documentation of the 1968 recreation by Kurt Schwerdtfeger of the very first light experiments at the Bauhaus. This programme will mark the launch of the posthumous publication of the book The Academy of the Senses, Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education by Frans …

Silk Chroma - Honouring Prize - Visual Music Award
Silk Chroma a visual music piece that I created in collaboration with the Irish Composer Linda Buckley and closely worked also with Dermot Furlong and Gavin Kearney at the end of 2010 has won an honouring prize at the forthcoming Visual Music Award 2011. I am totally delighted!   Visit website - Visual Music Award 2011 Visual Music Award @ Cocoon Club, Frankfurt Germany Photographs of the event have been put up by the organisers on their facebook page. Some photographs of Silk Chroma have been put on this page...what a stunning venue the Cocoon Club. Visual Music Award Facebook Page -  https://www.facebook.com/VisualMusicAward Silk Chroma can be seen on vimeo Silk Chroma from Silk Chroma on Vimeo . Silk Chroma - the silent version is also sh…

Expanded Abstraction: CVM Program, Los Angeles
Opening late July,2011, Los Angeles: Expanded Abstraction : A special 3-screen program from CVM featuring Scott Draves' Generation 244, plus work by Robert Seidel, Baerbel Neubauer, Christina McPhee, Maura McDonnell and Charles Dockum. Curated by Cindy Keefer. LA County Museum of Art, central plaza, Stark Bar. On view beginning July 28, evenings through January, 2012. Images courtesy Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep. PREVIEW of McPhee's Bird of Paradise video triptych. (re posted from CVM events page: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm OPENING NIGHT - Thursday, July 28 Please join CVM at LACMA at Stark Bar - Thursday, July 28 CVM's new *Expanded Abstraction* 3-screen program begins in LACMA's Stark Bar (central plaza, next to …

Space Light Art - by Cindy Keefer
"Space Light Art" - Early Abstract Cinema and Multimedia, 1900-1959 by Cindy Keefer Article online at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/CKSLAexc.htm

Jon Behrens - Pure Cinema
THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES by Jon Behrens experiments with "creating mats with liquid latex directly on the film emulsion then bleaching off all the excess image around the latex and using the clear bleached sections of film as a canvas to paint my film poem, I used special inks that were custom made just for me called Kenville Dyes I then to re-photographed it all on my beloved JK optical printer. I also created this films sound design. 2008, 16mm color sound 7 ½ min" Source: http://www.vimeo.com/7352980 The Production and Decay of Strange Particles. from Jon Behrens on Vimeo . THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES In this film I began to experiment more with creating mats with liquid latex directly on the film emulsion the…

Center for Visual Music - VIMEO CHANNEL
The Center for Visual Music has set up a vimeo channel to show excerpts from Films from the Collection of Center for Visual Music archive. Many have been preserved by CVM and/or curated by CVM in programs seen worldwide. http://vimeo.com/channels/124018 This channel is an excellent resource for those wishing to see excerpts from the CVM collection archive and is worth keeping a regular check as more films are added to the channel. It is just wonderful to see William Moritz discuss Oskar Fischinger's work, to see the Lumigraph Film (c. 1969) by Elfriede Fischinger (excerpt). This is a very valuable vimeo channel for fans and scholars of visual music. Center for Visual Music - Vimeo Channel www.centerforvisualmusic.org

Celebrating Elfriede Fischinger on her 100th Birthday: A Benefit Exhibition and Reception
Celebrating Elfriede Fischinger on her 100th Birthday An Exhibition and Benefit Reception for CVM’s Fischinger Preservation and Conservation Project Hosted by Center for Visual Music in collaboration with The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and The Fischinger Trust "Join us for a celebration of the life of Elfriede (1910-1999), widow of the avant-garde filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger . The evening features an Exhibition of selected photographs, artifacts and Paintings by Oskar Fischinger, a Wine Reception, and a Screening of Home Movies, Interviews and Videos of Elfriede. Highlights include Oskar’s first Stereo Painting (1949), The Lumigraph film (1970) by Elfriede, and unshot animation drawings by Oskar. Proceeds from the evening, which includes a si…

Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s
Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s Northwest Film Forum and T he Sprocket Society , in association with Center For Visual Music , present this special series celebrating the history of Visual Music, at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, April 9 - 13, 2010. Over the past century, there have been a number of prescient artists who’ve approached cinema as a tool for merging visual art and music in order to create a new art form and explore uncharted areas of synaesthetic experience. Through a vibrant history of cinematic experiments, these pioneers have been inventing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and technologies on which our modern image-and-sound culture is based. VISUAL MUSIC is a rare opportunity to see restored film prints of work by such master animat…

Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music
Los Angeles premieres. Co-presented with Center for Visual Music “Joost Rekveld has provided an undeniable masterpiece with #37.” International Film Festival Rotterdam This ravishing “play of light” explores rhythmic abstractions in the cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld’s #37 (Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly beautiful study of the propagation and diffraction of light through crystalline structures. Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup also offers award-winning animated shorts from around the world, most of which are screening in L.A. for the first time. Featured artists include Scott Draves, Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen, Bär…

Center for Visual Music to Preserve Fischinger Experiments
June 12, 2009 - Animation World Network Headline News - Top Stories Center for Visual Music to Preserve Fischinger Experiments http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=28079 Center for Visual Music has received two new grants for preservation of very early Oskar Fischinger animation experiments. The first grant is a prestigious Avant-Garde Masters Grant, to support the preservation of three nitrate reels of Fischinger's original 35mm experiments from his RAUMLICHTKUNST multiple projector cinema performances of the 1920s. The grant is funded by The Film Foundation and managed by The National Film Preservation Foundation. The Film Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to protecting and preserving motio…

Vimeo Video Channels
There are some really interesting vimeo channels showcasing contemporary work in the audio visual field. These channels are a great opportunity to see what is going on with audio visual work/art/music today. They also demonstrate how many different fields that audio visual works are taking place in - such as in installation settings, as interfaces, in gallery spaces, as films and animations led by music collaborations and music label collaborations - there are just so many ways now in which audio and visual are being put together...I like to still call all these approaches visual music. (Author Comment) Experimental Motion Graphics Channel http://vimeo.com/channels/motiongraphics Designflux http://vimeo.com/channels/designflux "Designflux exists as a quarterly pu…

Preserving Visual Music - By Holly Willis for Blur + Sharpen
Preserving Visual Music - By Holly Willis - May 8, 2009 "After more than 70 years and the explosion of visual culture, the stunning animated films of Oskar Fischinger remain unparalleled. Fischinger, who emigrated to Los Angeles from Germany in 1936 and became one of the city's central figures in a burgeoning avant-garde filmmaking community, created dozens of dazzling visual explorations of sound... This question is tackled head-on by Cindy Keefer, Director of LA's Center for Visual Music, which is dedicated to this particular genre of experimental film... one of the Center's key objectives is preservation. In this context, CVM recently announced that it has received funds from the Avant-Garde Masters Grant (which is funded by The Film Foundation and …