Visual Music

Scott Snibbe a media artist, filmmaker and researcher in interactivity and an artist whose work embraces visual music approaches, has just released a really interesting application for the iPad, whereby an individual or a networked group of individuals can create visual music type animations together, using a responsive animation with touch. The animations look very beautiful, are customisable and look like a lot of fun to experiment with or to perform with? Link to MotionPhone App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motionphone-hd/id373089458?mt=8usg=AFQjCNGrpboR5cOaBX_E-QXl6GW0uh8Gtw Information about MotionPhone on Scott's website: http://www.snibbe.com/blog/2012/02/03/motionphone/ The really interesting aspect of this project/application is that…

Computer Baroque - curated by Richard Wright. online exhibition from 14 April to 14 July 2009 "Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright. Computer Baroque is a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the late eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology... The Computer Baroque programme screened at Tate Modern on 20 March 2009; the majority of those works are now showing here from 14 April to 14 July 2009. Programme notes by curator Richard Wright." See: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_b…

http://www.futureofsound.org/9.htm Artist Luciana Haill uses medical electroencephalogram, or EEG, monitors embedded in a Bluetooth-enabled sweatband to record the activity of her frontal lobes, then beams the data to a computer that plays it back as song. Source: Make Beautiful Brain Music article in wired magazine

Yolande Harris - media artist and composer. "Yolande is a composer and media-artist working with sound, image and space in a technologically extended environment. She proposes a radical notion of the musical score and uses technology in her work as the means through which to understand the electronically extended spaces we inhabit." (artist statement on website) website: http://www.yolandeharris.net Example Project highlighted here. http://www.yolandeharris.net/light_house.htm A Collection of Circles (or Pharology) Interactive Sound Installation at: CCNOA (Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) Earwitness Sound Art Series, Brussels January 2005 Light Phase performance for video, voice, sound and sensors: Video Dance Festival, International Film Festival …