SEE HEAR NOW - Moca - Visual Music Event

MOCA - Visual Music - SEE HEAR NOW

An experimental music series investigating the synaesthetic resonance between contemporary music and visual art.

Carter Tutti - Chessmachine

Skoltz_Kolgen present Flüux:/Terminal
Tom Recchion with Jonathon Rosen
William Basinski & James Elaine
"Tom Recchion takes prerecorded tape loops, keyboards, and effects and turns exotica into the kind of music you'd expect to hear in a tiki bar on a 22nd century space station. His performance is accompanied by live video mixing by New York filmmaker Jonathon Rosen. In an artistic sybiosis reminiscent of Merce Cunningham and John Cage, musician and auteur William Basinski and filmmaker James Elaine have created subtle films and music together for over 20 years, with the seamlessly integrated quality of their work beautifully illustrating the thesis of Visual Music."

Raster-Noton Artists: Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender (aka Byetone), Signal

Bell Solaris
"Bell Solaris, Twelve Metamorphoses in Piano Theater, began as a concert-length composition for solo piano by American experimental music pioneer David Rosenboom, who built the music upon an underlying narrative about evolution expressed through transfigured myths. Now, renowned theater and opera director Travis Preston has conceived an enveloping theatrical experience of the same piece. Following an intricate choreography, a large ensemble of performers interacts with the on-stage musical performance while wearing multiple video cameras and moving projectors to capture and display performance images."

Synaesthesia - Filmmakers Listen, Composers See"This weekend of film and live music includes provocative new works and milestone collaborations: films by avant-garde icons Stan Brakhage and Ed Emshwiller, who both worked with 20th century composers; a live reenactment of the Erik Satie/René Clair collaboration for the Surrealist fantasy Entr’acte; and contemporary musical responses to historic films by 1920s pioneers Germaine Dulac and Teinosuke Kinugasa (A Page of Madness). Experimental Intermedia founder Phill Niblock collaborates with CalArts musicians in a profound meditation on sound and labor, and Bob Ostertag and Pierre Hébert's Living Cinema will create both the film and the soundtrack for Endangered Species live on stage. This weekend is curated by the CalArts School of Film/Video and School of Music."

[Text source: http://www.moca.org/seehearnow/ ]

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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