Visual Music

Filmmaker Anthony McCall ..."uses the physical properties of projected light to create and illuminate architectural spaces. McCall's new work, entitled 'You and I, Horizontal' is comprised of two projectors and a fog machine which combine to create a three dimensional space in which the viewer can observe and manipulate the power of light to convey space."(Source: Rhizome News listing http://rhizome.org/news/story.php?timestamp=20070924) Anthony McCall website: http://www.anthonymccall.com/ SFMOMA event: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.aspid=286 Rhizome Listing: http://rhizome.org/news/story.php?timestamp=20070924

Excellent experimental Music and Video Resource run by Spenayoung. http://newmusicresource.blogspot.com/

" description The Light Bead Curtain is an interactive musical installation that can be freely played by person's touch. The installation takes the form of a beaded curtain; strings of simple clear beads. Each bead, on a users touch, lights itself and emits a unique sound. People play with the curtain by weaving their hands through it, touching it with their faces, and moving through it with their body. An environment of light and sound is created when people engage with the curtain. " http://amaret.net/ami/?p=lightbead&y=2005#desc

See Video on You Tube "This was an attempt to visualize some of the abstract noise that goes on inside my head when listening to music. At first blush, it may not seem that different from a software visualizer. Unfortunately, visualizers are bound by the analysis of a stereo mix. While a it may extract information from certain frequency ranges, it can't really tell a clarinet from a duduk and represent each discretely. Here, each element has its own visual counterpart." Source

http://www.transmediale.de/site/competition+M54a708de802.html

laptop_orchestra is an interactive synaesthetic instrument, designed for performances of audio visual compositions in real time. The space conformation of the fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows, brings back to the formation of an orchestral group. http://limiteazero.net/l_o/index.html Limiteazero is an architecture, media design and media art studio based in Milan, Italy, founded in 1998 by Paolo Rigamonti and Silvio Mondino. " Limiteazero’s areas of expertise include: installations design, responsive environment design, crossmedia design for retail, media in architecture and public space, interaction design. The studio works both on independent research projects and commissioned installations, for clients like Toshiba, BlackBerry, Alberto Aspesi, Nice, S…

"The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art." HEAD…

Octopulse "The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means. The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesiser to convert into cacophonous noises." http://www.shootthestylist.net/octo/index.htm

Octopulse "The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means. The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesiser to convert into cacophonous noises." http://www.shootthestylist.net/octo/index.htm

Božidar Svetek, "a private researcher and video artist, has since 1979 been exclusively concentrating on the connection of music, painting and technics, i.e., the linking of sound and picture. With the onset of modern computer technology, he transfers such »classic« experience into a new medium. In 1996 he took out a patent for a procedure of visualizing a sound event, so that by the help of a new instrument, he »plays« the colour contents of each music work. The new instrument offers a new post-productive expressive form to music, which is accessible to every individual. What is achieved by this is a film quality that opens new concepts and aesthetic extensions united in two human immanences, in a united duration frame of time and space. All the so far accompli…

Soundwaves - A collaboration between kinetica museum and cybersonica. 18th May - 29th June 2007 London http://www.kinetica-museum.org/new_site/

Visual Music Marathon: Musical Fine Art Animation Benchmark by Jean Detheux Excellent article by Jean Detheux, May 24th, 2007 discussing the Visual Music Marathon Event held on April 28th, 2007 in Boston. 13 pages of excellent comments and discussion, with a selection of videoclips from the event online, illustrated with the article. http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3295&page=1

The Visual Music Marathon Event took place yesterday, 28 April 2007 at the Egan Research Center, 120 Forsyth Street, Northeastern University, MA 02115 , Boston. What an amazing show of incredibly beautiful and stunning visuals and music. Organised by Dennis Miller. This was an event worth seeing!!! - more here soon. Meanwhile, previews of some of the work that was shown is online at: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html PREVIEW ANIMATION from Visual Music Marathon

"Audio Space is a 3D augmented aural space. A user wearing a headset can leave messages at any point within the room and hear all the sounds left by everyone before them spatialised as if the people were really still there. It has been exhibited at ICHIM 05 in Paris and at the 2006 Eyebeam Summer Exhibition in New York." http://muonics.net/site_docs/work.php?id=15 "superimposes a dense sonic environment onto a completely empty physical space and allows the participant to explore and shape this seemingly hidden world of sound. " http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/journal/archives/2006/07/the_making_of_t.html

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/ Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication. One of their events is: "The Graffiti Research Lab will be in Rotterdam from February 7th through the 10th (2007). We’re taking control of the Renzo Piano KPN Telecom Building and turning the Kop Van Zuid into the People’s Revolutionary Green Laser Light District. We are turning the 37 x 72 meter screen into a place to display your uncurated animations and graphics"

"The Heart Chamber Orchestra - HCO - is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo TERMINALBEACH. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.HCO forms a structure where music literally "comes from the heart". "the musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. a computer monitors & analyzes the state of these 12 hearts in real time. the acquired information is used to compose a musical score with the aid of computer software. it is a living score dependent on the state …

http://levitated.net/exhibit/darkside/ Moonlight is an interactive installation of the visualization of the first movement of Beethoven's No.14 Sonata.

http://www.colorofmysound.com/ Assign colors to songs at the free music promotion community, ColorOfMySound.com " Synaesthesia is the mixing of the senses. Those affected by it hear colors, see sounds, and taste tactile sensations. When the two senses involved are sound and color, this phenomenon is no longer limited to synaesthetes: anyone, given a sound and time for contemplation, can ascribe color to that sound. Often, these connections between sound and color will overlap from person to person. Color Of My Sound is an informal experiment to test that hypothesis. First, choose a sound category . Then, after listening, choose the color to which you are most strongly drawn. Give us your thoughts. Then, you can see how others voted for that particular sound. &quo…

http://tones.wolfram.com/ "WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. " This is really fun to play with....!!! Amazing composition controls in terms of a huge variety of musical scales

http://creativelab.kiev.ua/eng/theory/graphics/graphics_eng.htm Interesinting work on transforming music intervals into a graphic image. Other project is the correspondence of sound to colour

http://turbulence.org/Works/graphtheory/ Graph Theory enables you to navigate among 61 short, looping musical gragments to explore a composition for solo violin. Jason Freeman - concept, music programming Patricia Reed - design Maja Ceran - violin

http://unlekker.net/proj/illuminCTM2007/ "Realtime projection, still images for print. Java + Processing w/ OpenGL. " Marius Watz 2007

http://www.warmcircuit.com/web/artist.php?artist_id=1 Modified Toy Orchestra makes music from abandoned toys. They are a collection of abandoned and reconstructed Childrens electronic toys, conducted by a selection of musicians. See their myspace website :

http://www.futureofsound.org/9.htm Artist Luciana Haill uses medical electroencephalogram, or EEG, monitors embedded in a Bluetooth-enabled sweatband to record the activity of her frontal lobes, then beams the data to a computer that plays it back as song. Source: Make Beautiful Brain Music article in wired magazine

http://www.futuresonic.com/07/2007_submissions.html Futurevisual Call For Projects. Manchester, UK "In 2007 we are inviting submissions of projects at the cutting edge of immersive sound and image. " Deadline: Thursday 15th February 2007.

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