Visual Music

ARTICLE: " On Curating Recent Abstract Visual Music " by Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer © Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer , 2006-08. Authored for The New York Digital Salon's Abstract Visual Music catalog and website. Slight revision, 2008.

Bruce Naumann - Stamping in the Studio (excerpt)

Bruce Naumann - Stamping in the Studio (excerpt)

CALL FOR VISUAL MUSIC WORKS Visual Music: Fine art animation, video or film in which the visual elements are informed by musical processes. Call for Submissions Deadline: (postmarked) January 15th, 2007 "Northeastern University is pleased to announce a call for work for the 2007 Visual Music Marathon, to be held on April 28th, 2007 as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. The Marathon will include new and historic works that reflect the theme of the event. Approximately thirty minutes of programming will be selected for national broadcast on the Harmony Channel, available to subscribers of digital cable on the Comcast and Cox networks. (The Harmony Channel will negotiate individual fees with selected artists.)" Please see the site for more information on guidelines and a submission form: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/ Visual Music Marathon - April 28, 2007 - Boston Cyberarts Festival. CALL FOR WORKS

Video and Music Performers (VAMP) at the Tate Britain - December 1st, 2006

Peter Donebauer - The Videokalos Colour Synthesiser. Performance by Peter Donebauer at Tate Britain. Video and Music Performers (VAMP) Friday 1 December 2006, 20.00-21.00 See Tate Britain website for more information http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/musicperform/7149.htm

Richard Monkhouse - Spectre Colour Video Synthesiser - Pattern Generator. 1972 - 1975. Richard Monkhouse with (VAMP) performaing at Tate Britain, 1st Decemeber 2005. http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/musicperform/7149.htm

State of the Image - Interactive Media Festival - 9 September 2006 at Arnhem Citysquare [Arnhem/Netherlands]

Screen Music - Digicult.it - [Italy] 30 November - 2 December 2006 Visual Music Programme "Visual Music Program - Monografie: Reline 2 project, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Meta.am – 90' Visual Music Program - Montevideo Program / Argos program – 50'"

NOTV Visual Music - The Vj Label

Karl Kliem - Music Videos

Check out new works added to Dennis H. Millers site as well as extensive documentation of his visual music works to date: Dennis H. Miller - Visual Music Artist, Animations, Graphics and Music can be viewed at his site online

UntitledMedia: a survey of New Media Art

philip glass: glassworks

philip glass: glassworks

Tescosqatsi Koyananisqatsi and philip glass Spoof

Tescosqatsi Koyananisqatsi and philip glass Spoof

philip glass: metamorphosis 1 youtube - "piano by branka parlic 27th of october 2004, sinagogue, novi sad"

philip glass: metamorphosis 1 youtube - "piano by branka parlic 27th of october 2004, sinagogue, novi sad"

Mediaartnet - Resource "Introducing the range of topics related to media and art, « Media Art Net » thus aims at establishing an Internet structure that offers highly qualified content by granting free access at the same time. Tendencies of art and media technology development throughout the twentieth century serve as the background for promoting historic and contemporary perspectives on artistic work in and with the media. A combination of diverse representational modes will offer a condensed, attractively presented multimedia focus for the interested 'surfer,' as well as profusely documented in depth information for users specifically involved in research. The main objective is, therefore, to establish theoretically and audio-visually convincing forms of relationships and references that cross the boundaries of genre. A consistently bilingual version (German/English) further transmits the international character of this undertaking." http://www.mediaartnet.org/media...

Vorwerk Ballet different choreography - www.slapdance.de/antonym

Vorwerk Ballet different choreography - www.slapdance.de/antonym

Ai Yamamoto Youtube broadcast: "The abstract electronic melodies and digital animation of Japanese artist Ai Yamamoto. Includes interview with subtitles."

Ai Yamamoto Youtube broadcast: "The abstract electronic melodies and digital animation of Japanese artist Ai Yamamoto. Includes interview with subtitles."

After All (The Odessa Steps) Pet Shop Boys Soundtrack

After All (The Odessa Steps) Pet Shop Boys Soundtrack

Antal Lux - Artist, Video, Painting. This puece is called Identity (Identit�t | 1991 )

Antal Lux - Artist, Video, Painting. This puece is called Identity (Identit�t | 1991 )

Antal Lux - Identitly (1991) - clip online at: mediartnet.org

Antal Lux - Identitly (1991) - clip online at: mediartnet.org

Suggested by Conor Hinfey Battleship Potemkin + Pet Shop Boys live in Dresden

The Odessa Steps Sequence Soundtrack by Petshop Boys to Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Excerpt from the Odessa Steps Sequence

Excerpt - The Odessa Steps Sequence Sergei Eisenstein (1925) - The Odessa Steps Sequence

CLAUDIA ROHRMOSER ANIMATION UND VIDEO. VI:KNRZ_TRU - VIDEO/ANIMATION Claudia Rohrmoser, SOUND Arne Vierck, Arno Frisch (Arnö), 8:00 min DV PAL, Berlin 2002. Lots of other beautiful work to check out

Paul Friendlander - Light Sculptor - Video Clips online

music blackboard ars electronica festival 2006 - youtube excerpt

Peter Greenway/David Lang - Writing on Water Peter Greenway - film; David Lang - Composer - " Writing on water ". "The Artwise Solution: Artwise commissioned filmmaker Peter Greenaway, composer David Lang and the London Sinfonietta orchestra to collaborate on a highly ambitious, multidisciplinary event inspired by the maritime theme. Greenaway arranged a libretto based on Moby Dick, The Tempest and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which was then orchestrated by Lang and performed by the world-class London Sinfonietta. Writing on Water also included live calligraphy by Brody Neuenschwander, who worked on Greenaway's The Pillow Book, and live VJ'ing of some 400 film images by the director himself. Writing on Water was first performed in Richard Roger's spectacular Lloyd's building, where the vast screens were suspended directly over the markets, and to great acclaim as a public event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank (2005). Artwise pro...

Writing on Water Peter Greenway video - Writing on water. Composer David Lang "The Artwise Solution: Artwise commissioned filmmaker Peter Greenaway, composer David Lang and the London Sinfonietta orchestra to collaborate on a highly ambitious, multidisciplinary event inspired by the maritime theme. Greenaway arranged a libretto based on Moby Dick, The Tempest and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which was then orchestrated by Lang and performed by the world-class London Sinfonietta. Writing on Water also included live calligraphy by Brody Neuenschwander, who worked on Greenaway's The Pillow Book, and live VJ'ing of some 400 film images by the director himself. Writing on Water was first performed in Richard Roger's spectacular Lloyd's building, where the vast screens were suspended directly over the markets, and to great acclaim as a public event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank (2005). Artwise project-managed over 100 collaborators for this c...

Writing on Water performance Music by David Lang

Writing on Water performance Music by David Lang

Dear Phone Part One Peter Greenway

Dear Phone Part One Peter Greenway

H is for House Peter Greenway - H is for House

H is for House Peter Greenway - H is for House

Gehr - Serene Velocity Part One youtube broadcast

Gehr - Serene Velocity Part One youtube broadcast

Stan Brakhage - The Garden of Earthly Delights

Stan Brakhage - The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hollist Hampton - Nostalgia

Hollist Hampton - Nostalgia

Anthem Bill Viola

Anthem Bill Viola

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G Paul Sharits - Flicker Film -Touching

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G Paul Sharits - Flicker Film -Touching

N:O:T:H:I:N:G A clip from Paul Sharits' film, N:O:T:H:I:N:G - Flicker film - Structural Film

N:O:T:H:I:N:G A clip from Paul Sharits' film, N:O:T:H:I:N:G - Flicker film - Structural Film

Brakhage on Brakhage I

Brakhage on Brakhage I

Brakhage on Brakhage II youtube excerpt

Brakhage on Brakhage II youtube excerpt

Michael Snow - La Région Centrale - 1967 youtube excerpt

Michael Snow - La Région Centrale - 1967 youtube excerpt

Michael Snow - wavelength (1967) youtube broadcast

Michael Snow - wavelength (1967) youtube broadcast

Abelardo Morell - Photographer (US) - Abelardo Morell makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The simple process -- he blacks out all the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them -- produces photographs of complex beauty. The world outside is projected upside down into the room which he then photographs using long exposures. (Abelardo Morell, Bulfinch Press) http://memberpictures.aol.com/aolvisions/ipcamera and http://www.abelardomorell.net/about.html

Abelardo Morell - Photographer (US) - Abelardo Morell makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The simple process -- he blacks out all the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them -- produces photographs of complex beauty. The world outside is projected upside down into the room which he then photographs using long exposures. (Abelardo Morell, Bulfinch Press) http://memberpictures.aol.com/aolvisions/ipcamera and http://www.abelardomorell.net/about.html

Virgil Widrich - Fast Film - Google Video Broadcast 2003. "In 14 minutes, "Fast Film" provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera." More info: http://www.widrichfilm.com/ and http://www.widrichfilm.com/fastfilm/main_en.html

Virgil Widrich - Fast Film - Google Video Broadcast 2003. "In 14 minutes, "Fast Film" provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera." More info: http://www.widrichfilm.com/ and http://www.widrichfilm.com/fastfilm/main_en.html

The Conformist (English Dub) Excerpt from The Conformist - published at youtube

René Clair -Entr'acte (1924) youtube broadcast- René Clair -Entr'acte (1924)

Excerpt from Alexander Nevsky at google video. Music composed by Sergei Prokofiev. Eisenstein and Prokoviev worked very close on creating sound image relations in this work. "Alexander Nevsky is a film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitry Vasiliev, produced by Mosfilm and released in 1938 with Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role... The film was the first of Eisenstein's to use sound. The film's score was composed by Sergei Prokofiev, who later reworked the score into a concert cantata." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_%28film%29

clip from October - Sergei Eisenstein

clip from October - Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein - October (1927) - full film viewable on google video with sound. Originally a silent film, this version on google video has music scored by Dmitri Shostokovitch. Full title is October: Ten Days That Shook The World. However, more frequently referred to as October

clip from October - Sergei Eisenstein "clip from Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 masterpiece "October". ends with the famous scene of Lenin arriving at Finland Station, calling for all power to the Soviets. "

Excerpt - The Odessa Steps Sequence The Odessa Steps Massacre In 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925)

The Untouchables. The Station Steps. 1987 - Director Brian de Palma . A take on the famous odessa steps sequence from Eisensteins Battleship Potemkin

Full film to view at google video. "Deliberately written as a revolutionary propaganda film, Eisenstein used this film to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of films on the audience, and Eisenstein edited the film in a way that would produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the story was written in a very simplistic fashion, so that the audience could clearly see whom they could sympathize with." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin

Dziga Vertov - Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - Download at archive.org

View online at youtube Originally a silent movie, in this youtube broadcast with music.

2001 - Stanley Kubrick - Space Oddysey- HAL and David Excerpt on youtube. This clip demonstrates the kuleshov effect.

Vito Acconci - Theme Song - 1977 - 33 minutes - streamed on ubuweb.

CAGE CUNNIGHAM BALLET John Cage and Merce Cunningham - youtube broadcast

Beyond Myth and Metaphor -The Case of Narrative in Digital Media by Marie-Laure Ryan

work and research - faculty work MIT - Visual Arts Program

work and research - faculty work MIT - Visual Arts Program

work and research - faculty work MIT - Visual Arts Program

work and research - faculty work MIT - Visual Arts Program

Stan Douglas - (Canada) - "Win, Place or Show". Information and video clip at from mediaartnet

Article (with links to illustrations) Rudolf Frieling "Context Video Art" from mediaartnet

Antal Lux - Traum (Hungary) -2004

Antal Lux - Dissonanz - 2002 (Hungary) "An experiment in unified dissonance! A chord, felt as tension, that, after it's dissolve, seeks to transform into consonance." http://www.antallux.de/. Excellent Video, ideas and explorations. Really worth checking out.

Lev Manovich - Soft Cinema - Interview

John Smith - UK - Experimental Filmmaker

Screenonline: 20s - 30s Avant-Garde Film

Notes on a Triangle by Rene Jodoin 1966 - play online at ONF

Casablanca - Release Date: November 26, 1942 Director: Michael Curtiz. Availalble to view either streaming or download

Example of one key effect sample of image (painted on glass) for the Piano Optophonique (1916) - Baranoff Rossine

Submitted by Fran Hartnett More information and video clip of film at: http://www.platige.com/index.php?lng=en&tu=27 "Short, poetic film based on the Jacek Dukaj's novel, created by Tomek Baginski. It was nominated for an Oscar® in 2003 in Short Animated Category. The Cathedral is also a winner of Best Animated Short at the SIGGRAPH festival in 2002...Synopis: Story of a pilgrim who come to the Cathedral on the border of the known world. He wants to find the answers. He finds calmness."

photos-romans de Chris Marker La Jetee 1962

Sue Constabile - Still Not Still "Using black and white photographs taken in Berlin, Still Not Still turns frozen moments in time into moving images. "

CLAUDIA ROHRMOSER ANIMATION UND VIDEO. VI:KNRZ_TRU - VIDEO/ANIMATION Claudia Rohrmoser, SOUND Arne Vierck, Arno Frisch (Arnö), 8:00 min DV PAL, Berlin 2002

Walter Ruttmann Light-Play Opus I - 1921 - Video Clip Available

Thomas Wilfred - Lumia - Flash Reproduction of Light Animation. "Untitled", Opus 161, 1965/66. "The animation, featured here, is a Flash based 'movie' made up of 30 still images taken from Wilfred's Opus 161., and produced for us by the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Special thanks to Michel Fernandez of the Centre Pompidou for producing this animation and for permission to use it here." See http://www.lumia-wilfred.org/content/animation/op161.html for more information

Rear Window - Part 1 (Excerpt from Beginning of film) - James Stewart

Scott Pagano - Moving Image

Sonic Focus 2006

Sue Constabile - Video artist and photographer working mainly in live improvisational settings. Her set up usually inlcudes a small camera, a light pad and various drawings, watercolors, photos and found objects which she animates using her hands and a computer program called Jitter .

Keeping Score - San Francisco Symphony - Education - Resources for Teachers