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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…

biot(h)ing - Invisibles - Alisa Andrasek
I have just come across this most interesting installation research project to be shortly exhibited in paris. There is a lot of imagery that uses software generative processes to create "scripted" imagery - these images are always incredibly beautiful, and ordered displaying the most wonderful 'ordered' patterns that would be very hard to realise/create by hand processes. When these patterns are tied up to audio processes, then the most incredible synergy seems to take place. This project is a very physical realisation of both scripted animation and an interactive sonar field. What caught my eye was the imagery and the tight connection with sound. (Author comment) "b iot(h)ing - Invisibles is an interactive installation exhibited at the Pra…

Visual Music Exhibtion - 2005 - Hirshorn Museum - US
Visual Music Exhibition - Hirshhorn Museum 2005 Documentation Website (great resource) http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/ The catalogue for the Visual Music Exhibition can be purchased at Amazon. This book is an excellent resource and introduction to Visual Music. Product Description from Amazon "The influence of music on the development of abstract and mixed-media visual art forms from the early twentieth century to the present day. This ground-breaking new book and the exhibition it accompanies trace the history of a revolutionary idea: that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. Over the past one hundred years some of the most adventurous modern and contemporary artists have explored unorthodox means to invent a kinetic, non-re…