Jean Piché - videomusic

Jean Piché - videomusic b (1951) Canada

"Jean Piché is a composer who has developed into a video artist over the past few years. His practice meshes moving images and music in a new hybrid form he calls videomusic. In his beginnings as an electroacoustic composer in the 1970s, he was one of the very first Canadians to employ the then emerging digital audio technologies. He has produced works in every genre of electroacoustics for mixed and acousmatic to live-electronics. His work aims for poetic expression beyond any sort of formalism. The work has been alternately described as confounding, colorful and virtuosistic." source text

Jean Piché's website provides information, documentation and Quicktime video clips on his videomusic, sound music work. He has also has created a software programme Cecilia (which can be downloaded from his site) to make sound. "Sound in its widest definition. Sound as music, sound as composition, sound as accessory."

Jean Piché - eXpress for three channel video and stereo sound (2001)

"The highly kinetic allure of eXpress is obtained by forcing a very fast camera shutter speed with a large aperture. Trajectories and velocities ... kinetic outrage... fields, village, city." source text Quicktime video clip available.

Jean Piché - Spin (1999 -2000)

Spin is for three channel video and stereo sound (1999 - 2000)

"Spin is a metaphorical representation of musical time, color and form. Synchronicity (or "synchrèse") is not a primary concern...Musical ideas were the determining guide for the elaboration of visual sequences, but the music was composed after the visuals" source text Quicktime video clip available

Jean Piché - Sieves

Jean Piché's videomusic was part of SOUNDplay

2004's programme in November 2004 (Canada), produced by New Adventures in Sound Art. The image presented on this site illustrating a screen shot from the videomusic "Sieve" is very striking.

Blog update May 2011

Watch Jean Piche beautiful work on his vimeo channel:
http://vimeo.com/ethrop/videos

eXpress

eXpress from Jean Piché on Vimeo.

Spin

Spin from Jean Piché on Vimeo.

Contact - Augmented Acoustics

Felix Faire (UK), a Parametric System Designer had designed some very interesting interactive installations. One of these, Contact is an interface with which to manipulate and visualize sounds. Beautiful results. View Contact: Augmented Acoustics CONTACT: Augmented Acoustics from Felix Faire on Vimeo . "CONTACT is a tangible audio interface to manipulate and visualize sounds generated from interaction with a simple wooden surface. Any physical contact with the table generates acoustic vibrations which are manipulated and visualized LIVE as they occur using several communicating pieces of software. All code will be opensource and available on github. Bartlett School of Architecture Msc AAC Tutor: Ruairi Glynn" More information: http://www.coroflot.com/felixfaire/profile Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/felixfaire

D.D. Jameson - Colour Music (1844)

D.D. Jameson devised a systematic approach to create a colour music score for a specially adapted piano. His scores took the information from a piano music score and applied it to a sound-music colour scheme and translated it into a colour score. The colour score communicated the musical information - such as notes, rhythm, durations. His score was to link to a special adaptation of a piano music instrument that would have the keys prepared with the relevant colours. The musician could then play the piano by following the colour music score. Not only were the piano keys to be coloured according to his colour to tone analogy system but the score was to also communicate other aspects of the musicianship such as: the intervals of the music, the notes and their octaves, by mapping the height of the colour to the octave of the note and the width of the colour to the duration of the note. "A pianoforte having been prepared in the manner described, any air may be slo...

International Call for Works - VISUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

I am very happy to announce the call for works for visual music films for a visual music festival devoted to contemporary practice to be held at the University of Kentucky, US. Why I am very proud is one of my former students is involved in organising this, well done Kristine SCFA Visual Music Festival 2025 @ The University of Kentucky Call for visual music films, Deadline is 15th December 2024 General Rules: • The films must be made entirely with abstract imagery, avoiding representation. That is: no cars, no people, no landscapes, no texts, etc. • You can use any technique you’d like: drawing, video composition, cgi, scratch, op-art, stop-motion, camera-less… • The soundtrack cannot feature any words, in any language. If you’re using a song, this must be instrumental or feature non-narrative voices, (no lyrics). • Maximum running time is 8 minutes. • Open and/or closing credits are welcome. • Films must have been produced after 2017. • We kindly request authors to enter their fi...

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