Visual Music

The website netEX - networked experience has a really useful resource page that list forthcoming calls for works that would be relevant in particular to those who create visual music and audio visual work. The page is called "calls and deadlines" and is worth checking into every now and then for opportunities to get your work shown. http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/

Shane McKenna is a composer and video artist based in Ireland, who creates the most intricate muscial visual music pieces.  He expolores the use of animated graphic notation to create musical collaboration. His latest piece - Moving Lights in D is a wonderful example of his approach.  It can be viewed on Vimeo and is embedded in this post Moving Lights in D from Shane Mc Kenna on Vimeo . Information about Moving Lights in D "To experiment with processed video footage as an animated score I performed this short piece myself in twenty separate takes on both classical guitar and electric bass. Each track was recorded listening to playback from the previous track only to allow some interaction between parts but a free feeling overall. I stayed within the key of Dmaj to tie the layers together while following the visual rhythms gave a sense of pulse at certain points. Playing along with D maj or B min scales will sound tasty if you have an instrument handy or just follow t...

{R}ake A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video Event: Thurs April 22 - 8pm Issue Project Room in The Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street (corner 3rd Avenue) 3rd Floor Park Slope, Brooklyn 718 330-0313 This Month's A/V: Set 1 - Giles Hendrix - Video Set 1 - Richard Lainhart - Music Set 2 - Kamran Sadeghi - A/V Set 3 - Bradford Reed - Music Set 3 - Ursula Scherrer - Video This Month's Message: {R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways. Link for more information on this event More Info: http://www.ursulascherrer.com http://www.rakeav.com http://issueprojectroom.org/

vanishing.point from Joseph Hyde on Vimeo . View the wonderful audiovisual work - Vanishing Point by Joseph Hyde. For a really informative account of the ideas explored in the work, visit his vimeo page for the video. http://www.vimeo.com/10216134 Joseph Hyde's website: http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/

Experimental Electronic Music and Visual Arts Festival/ 21-24.04.2010/ La Farinera del Clot Barcelona "The fifth annual festival of experimental electronic music and visual arts organized by the platform Störung will start next Wednesday 21st of April offering us, during four days, the performances of outstanding national and international artists of the electronic and experimental scene./ Störung Festival 5.0 features, besides the performances of the invited artists, a cycle of conferences, a permanent screening of audiovisual works in the exhibition room, and a thematic day on Friday 23rd of April titled 'Hydrophonia', dedicated exclusively to subaquatic sounds./ With this program the festival wants to offer the audience the chance of getting to know in detail different tendencies of the electronic music scene, continuing the work that the multidisciplinary platform Störung has been doing since 2006./ Störung's aim, in short, is to promote and support a varie...

A really innovative and innovative concept for the production of thematically and visually connected music films, organised by the acclaimed rock band - Filligar with students from USCs School of Cinematic Arts in L.A. 8 thematically and visually connected videos set to music FAR : a series of eight thematically and visually connected music films. Beginning 3/2/10 one film will be released every Tuesday for eight weeks. These films were written and directed by seven student filmmakers from USCs School of Cinematic Arts in L.A. and one graduate film student from DePaul in Chicago. The 8 videos were produced by Alice Mathias, also a USC grad student. FAR will culminate in the release of a new Filligar album in May. The 8 Directors: Alice Mathias Brian Brown Pete Mignin Giles Andrew Andy Landen Joselito Seldera Jeff Hersh Meredith Upchurch " Filligar , the acclaimed rock band that contributed their music to Far, encouraged the eight directors to do whatever they wanted with ...

"rain is a minimalistic audio visual composition you can play yourself" The iphone application was created by Rainer Kohlberger , a Berlin based freelance visual artist and designer. rain documentation website http://kohlberger.net/rain credits rain was created by rainer kohlberger 2010. sound samples by max kickinger. follow twitter.com/khlrqa vimeo http://vimeo.com/10557321 You can view more work by Rainer on his website http://kohlberger.net/

Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s Northwest Film Forum and T he Sprocket Society , in association with Center For Visual Music , present this special series celebrating the history of Visual Music, at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, April 9 - 13, 2010. Over the past century, there have been a number of prescient artists who’ve approached cinema as a tool for merging visual art and music in order to create a new art form and explore uncharted areas of synaesthetic experience. Through a vibrant history of cinematic experiments, these pioneers have been inventing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and technologies on which our modern image-and-sound culture is based. VISUAL MUSIC is a rare opportunity to see restored film prints of work by such master animators as Oskar Fischinger , Mary Ellen Bute , Jordan Belson , Robert Breer and many others on the big screen. In addition, we’ll host a panel discussion on Seattle’s own history of visual music in the 1960s and early ’70s....

I have only recently got round to compiling some of the books I have checked out (and would like to check out) when researching topics for visual music.  There are also some great DVDs worth getting.  These resources I have compiled into an amazon a store - at present it links to books on the amazon.co.uk website, but I will be also creating a similar one to link to amazon.com These resources are not all exactly visual music resources, but they are definitely helpful in any kind of visual music investigations or research or in the broader area of audio visual composition/installation/interaction I have signed up with Amazons affiliate programme, so every link you click from my store and then go onto purchase I get a small percentage.  I am slightly monetising my blog to help pay for the time I spend putting work here, so thanks in advance if you purchase from my astore link to amazon programme. Link to my compiled resources for Visual Music Research http://astore.a...