Visual Music

Chris O'Shea is an interactive media artist and researcher. "His focus is on creating works that encourage new methods of play and collaboration, challenging our perception of space and physical objects. His specialization is in synaesthesia, a fusion of sonic and visuals , through models of interaction that borrow from toy design, video game culture and urban play. Chris uses an open source process and hacked appropriated technology in the development of his work." See more information on his work and projects at: http://www.chrisoshea.org/about/ An example of one of his projects: Chris O'Shea - Plink Plonk (Onedotzero / V&A) - "Mechanical music boxes as input to collaborative visuals." Pixelsumo - Research by Chris O' Shea Chris…

Article " Where Abstraction and Comics Collide " Esther Leslie on Oskar Fishinger in Tate (UK) magazine "TATE ETC" Issue 7 - Summer 2006 " Kandinsky allegedly saw the animated film Composition in Blue by Oskar Fischinger, who was influenced by the painter’s imagery and diversified into an extraordinary range of art and commerce, working briefly on Disney’s Fantasia. Esther Leslie assesses the underrated artist’s work ..."

Johannes Deutsch's website documents his many video and media projects. Many of his works are visualisations of music. Beautiful work. The link presented here links to images of his visualisation of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold. Das Rheingold - Visionized . "For a concert performance of Rheingold at the Brucknerhaus Linz, Johannes Deutsch and the Ars Electronica Futurelab were commissioned to design an interactive, computercontrolled visualization that will surround the audience seated in that venue’s main concert hall with an 850 m2 black projection screen. Then, concertgoers wearing 3-D glasses will be completely immersed into a three-dimensional manifestation of virtual gods and their spheres." More information: " The computer-controlled s…