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SOUND/IMAGE 2023 - Call for Works

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“Creativity Shared” is the theme of the next SOUND/IMAGE festival in the University of Greenwich, London, UK  A festival curated by the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre.  Dates: 9-12 November 2023  Submission Deadline: 25 August 2023 University of Greenwich, London, UK  SOUND/IMAGE 2023 - Call for works - web page Press Release: "This festival brings together artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.   To celebrate the publication of a new book on sonic creativity “Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music” and the launch of our new creative practice research facilities the “Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies” this 2023 edition of the festival invites submissions that respond to the theme “Creativity Shared”.  We seek projects in Sound and Audiovisual Practice that articulate the value of the creative process and its potential to engage with the world in new ways:  

Digital Alchemy - Visual Music Work
Digital Alchemy is titled after the eighteenth century alchemy chemistry practices to create precious metals. In this digital abstract world, you are brought on a journey into the transformation of textures, colour and timbre in visuals and music. There are two anchor points in this motion surface, as two vertical lines offset and near the edges, that holds this surface of multiple gossamer threads of visual alchemic material, consisting of softness and sharpness are side by side. Perfect geometries merge with chaotic micro motions. The music is a composition by Cobi van Tonder, titled 'Gala', which consists of micro tones, vibrations of varying intensities, macro gestures. Both visual and music works consist of colours that shift and change with intensity…

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Performing Media Festival - 2023 - South Bend, Indiana
The Performing Media Festival [PMF~2023] is an annual showcase of audio-visual performance works in which artists working with emerging technologies unapologetically cross disciplinary boundaries to create new works of integrated media. Inspired by Debora Bernagozzi’s curated show titled Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists, "Performing Media", as Debora called it, eloquently encapsulates the performance of multimedia works that underpin all the events of the current festival, named after that exhibition. Over the years, co-founders Ryan Olivier and Eric Souther came to define performing media as a genre that uses multimedia elements in a performative manner, which so far has come to include live audio-visual performances, generative media proce…

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WORK: Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow) by Matt Winston
A beautiful visual music piece titled Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow), Electronics, Flute and Piano in Eb Major where visuals and music are composed by Matt Winston can be viewed online.  Frame from the film, 'Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow)' Matt graduated from the MMT programme in 2021 and I was his supervisor for his project in which one of the outputs was this beautiful film.  The film was premiered at the  MMT 2021 Exhibition which was online because of the Pandemic.    The Visual Music Piece is inspired by Chromesthetic Art and the Synaesthesia phenomenon. Filmed on Kodak Tri-X Black & White Super 8 film and digitally processed using Adobe After Effects. Video Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjzQf6OmWU Matt Winston - Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow), 2…

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MuVi 6 - Video and Moving Image on Synaesthesia and Visual Music
BOOK, SCREENING, WEBSITE: MuVi6. Video and Moving Image on Synaesthesia and Visual Music (2022). - An exciting innovative multiple production presentation of the best in multidisciplinary artwork research and practice in visual music and videos exploring synaesthesia.  Cover of Book:MuVi 6 MuVi 6 is an annual showcase of innovative and exciting moving image video art works that explore either a visual music expression or synaesthesia or both. This year, the premiere screening will take place at the end of October, 2022 and is taking place as part of the VII International Congress “Synaesthesia: Science & Art” Palacio Abacial and Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain) Facultad de Bellas Artes Alonso Cano, Universidad de Granada (Spain)   This is multip…

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BOOK LAUNCH - Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
TWO EVENTS to make the occasion of the launch of the book publication: Live Visuals Live Visuals Book Launch , November 5th, 2022, BFI, London -  Live Visuals Book Launch After Party , - Live Audio-Visual Performances, November 6th, 2922 Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street Corner), SE1 7LG LIVE VISUALS BOOK LAUNCH The Live Visuals book launch will be held in the BFI, Southbank London on the 5th November, 2022 from 13:00 to 19:00 pm.  The book launch celebrates the launch of Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, edited by Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman and Atau Tanaka, which was recently published by Routledge - https://routledge.pub/Live-Visuals Live Visuals - BOOK LAUCH Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals…

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Svetlana Rudenko - Pianist - Music and Art Concert - Dublin
Concert:  Jack B. Yeats AR and other Art Music Piano: Dr   Svetlana Rudenko  Talk: Prof Mads Haahr 19th September, 2022, 7.30 pm John Field Room National Concert Hall, Dublin Svetlana Rudenko and Collaborators on Music and Art Concert, with Talk/Narrative by Prof. Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin presented a concert of Music and Art Music Works Svetlana Rudenko performs an exciting programme of music accompanied by various art presentations, National Concert Hall, Dublin, September 19th, 2022 On Monday 19th September 2022, the innovative and talented concert pianist Dr Svetlana Rudenko performed an exciting programme of music which included a varied and interesting visual art element.  Svetlana collaborated with several artists and computer scientists to provide the…

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CALL FOR WORKS, PAPERS, CONCERTS - Sound/Image22
Press Release CALL FOR WORKS – SOUND/IMAGE22 18-20 November 2022, University of Greenwich This festival brings together artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. We actively encourage applications from candidates of all ethnicities, backgrounds and genders, who are traditionally underrepresented. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your proposals for – TALKS, CONCERTS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES, INSTALLATIONS – exploring diverse areas of sound / image practice, including (but not limited to): Audio-Visual Composition; Visual Music; Acousmatic Music; Expanded Cinema; Experimental Film; AV Performances; Sound and Image Relationships; Sonic Image; …

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Journal on Synaesthesia and Art available to purchase now
The Journal: 'Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects of Cognitive Activity Across Science and Artack' is available in print and is available to purchase now. Cover photo of Svetlana Rudenko, visuals by Maura McDonnell. IASAS, 2019 Available now It is very exciting to see the cover photo for the just published journal - Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects of Cognitive Activity Across Science and Art is of a photograph from the multimedia concert in which pianist Svetlana Rudenko and I (visuals) collaborated on in Moscow in 2019. Anton Dorso has edited the journal bringing together and documenting all the presentations, papers, art exhibits, concerts, and all aspects of the conference. See CC Harts post below for links to the journal and for details and how t…

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Jim Andrews - Interactive Audio + Color music + Digital Poetry - 2022
Jim Andrews Jim Andrews is a net artist, poet, programmer, visual and audio artist, mathematician and essayist. Andrews has created a new interactive audio, colour music and digital poetry application, titled Enigma n2022 that can be accessed via the internet in your own browser to create a variety of sounds and visual music. First use is free, then the app can be purchased and downloaded from a range of app stores. From the words of Jim in his press release, he describes Enigma n2022 as "a philosophical music & poetry toy for poets, musicians & philosophers from the age of 7 up. This is a new sort of poem. A new sort of music. A new sort of toy. A new sort of instrument. A new sort of art. This puts it all together." Credits:  Jim Andrews: Concept, c…

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PUBLICATION: Synesthesia: intersensory aspects of cognitive activity in science and art
PUBLICATION:  Synesthesia: intersensory aspects of cognitive activity in science and art Svetlana Rudenko (Pianist) and Maura McDonnell (Visual Music Artist) - Visual Music Collaboration on Scriabin Piano Sonata No.5., Moscow, 2019 Cover of Publication: Proceedings of the II International Conference of the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS) The book consists of the proceedings and materials of the II International Conference of the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS).  The title of the conference was  Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects of Cognition Across Science and Art and it was held in Moscow.   The editor-in-chief for this publication is A.V. Sidoroff-Dorso ( IASAS Vice President  of Acade…

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CALL FOR WORKS - MuVi6 - VISUAL MUSIC
MuVi6 (2022) MuVi6 invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of videos to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. Visual Music exhibition is part of the VII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science & Art", to be held from the 26th to the 29th of October 2022, Faculty of Fine Art "Alonso Cano", University of Granada, and Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain) Deadline for Submissions Latest date for submissions is 30 May 2022. Dates of Exhibition 26th to the 29th of October 2022. Where Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain (Convento de Capuchinos) Granada, Spain (University of Granada, Faculty of Fine Arts "Alonso Cano") Topic Th…

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FORTHCOMING BOOK: Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice
BOOK: L ive Visuals  History, Theory, Practice Edited By Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka Copyright Year 2023  Available to order July 2022 Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice Book Cover - 1st Edition https://www.routledge.com/Live-Visua-ls-History-Theory-Practice/Gibson-Arisona-Leishman-Tanaka/p/book/9781032252681 ISBN 9781032252681 July 29, 2022 Forthcoming by Routledge 576 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects, and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real-time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’ mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord i…

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The Art of Sound and Light, St Petersburg
SECOND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "THE ART OF SOUND AND LIGHT", SAINT PETERSBURG, took place from OCTOBER 18–20, 2021. The conference was online this year.  The conference was organised and hosted by: The Department of Organology inside the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, the Foundation for support of the audiovisual and technological art “Prometheus” (Foundation “Galeev-Prometheus”) and Sergey Zorin’s Optical Theater.  https://artcenter.ru/en/second-international-scientific-and-practical-conference-the-art-of-sound-and-light/   The three day event was co-ordinated by Olga Viktorovna Kolganova — Department of Organology Scientific Research Scientist, Russian Institute for the History of Art (St. Petersburg). The organis…

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Call for Paper Submissions - The Art of Sound and Light - St Petersberg
Second International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Art of Sound and Light" - Deadline September 10th 2021 Call for Paper Submissions - Second International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Art of Sound and Light" (to be held St. Petersburg, October 18–20, 2021 and with online Zoom facility to attend and present).  Details below. The deadline for applications for the International Scientific Conference "The Art of Sound and Light" has been extended until September 10th 2021 - Submit Abstracts for papers for this conference.  Applications for participation in the conference are accepted until September 10, 2021 to: email addresses: kolganova.spb@gmail.com or instrum_conf@mail.ru   Information THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF R…

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Crash Ensemble - [R E A C T I O N S] - Ireland
New Music Dublin 2021 New Music Dublin was held online this year. Several musicians, music ensembles, artists, producers, composers brought us over 15 virtual performances with 33 world premieres of new music compositions and it was streamed on http://newmusicdublin.ie. A quote of the sheer effort to bring this festival to fruition is below. So New Music Dublin 2021 is, explicitly, a festival for lockdown conditions. It’s a set of ideas, a programme made up of solutions to the question posed above: how do we make music together, when we can’t be together? These solutions stretch from how to get orchestras back together – both on stage, and remotely – through to making music individually, and from music beamed-over-thousands-of-miles internationally, to wholly u…

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