Visual Music

"Call for Entries 2010 The avant-garde-artists of the “Absolute Film” movement worked on visionary film experiments. They created visual symphonies from animated images which they composed on film according to their perception as artists. These were called “paintings in time”, ”visual music”, “symphonies of light and sound”, “cinematic paintings”, “color light music” or “space light art”. Target Groups: The “Visual Music Award 2010” is again an international call for proposals addressing young talents. Invited for participation are young independent creative artists and designers as well as students for example in the disciplines of new media art, experimental film and music video and allied disciplines. In the year 2010, for the second time, we invite …

"onedotzero_adventures in motion: festival call for submissions! a fantastic opportunity to get your work seen by a like-minded, connected and creative international community. this years festival premieres at the bfi southbank, London 10-14 november 2010 before touring internationally. deadline for receiving entries is 30th june 2010, 5pm. onedotzero are seeking innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to showcase at the bfi southbank, london, uk, 10-14 november 2010. the five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero's extensive worldwide network of events. onedotzero_adventures in motion has been the largest dedicated digital short film festival in the world since 1999. over fourteen years the …

Sara Rossi's beautiful video installation - " TV effect " created in 2008, is being exhibited as part of the " LookAtFestival 2010 " consisting of Video Art and Music, to be held in Italy, from 15 to 30 May, 2010. Sara's video installation caught my eye for the use of three screens and optical effects that remind me of much visual music work. View video excerpt and still images of " TV effect " on Sara's website http://www.sararossi.net/work/tv_effect/tv_con_video.html LookAtFestival info: http://www.lookatfestival.it/ Sara Rossi website http://www.sararossi.net/

The new video for Jinesis 's music track candy is available to watch on vimeo. The video is a tight audio visual piece, which focuses on abstract visuals to work with the music.  The video was produced by NGB . The music is by Jinesis and the style is experimental soul.  It is wonderful to see a visual music approach been taken to the video for the music track.  Using processing in conjunction with quartz composer and after effects,  "Candy" explores visuals sonically exuding the 'feeling' of music in a 'synthesized synesthesia'. More information on the video "The Video for Jinesis's slinky audio escapade "Candy" was designed to take geometric lines and patterns and interpret the five senses we feel when in lov…

Chiaki Watanabe is performing new live audio visual performances and installations in May, June 2010 at several visual music and audio visual events in Copenhagan, Denmark and Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany. "Chiaki Watanabe is a visual artist/designer based in Copenhagen, and New York. She creates abstract visual music works in various forms: video, live video performance and installation. Her work explores cross-sensory experience in a minimalist framework by integrating sound and visual imagery. Known for “hardcore-abstract” visuals. Her interest lies in visual phenomena within music and music within visual phenomena – visual music in physical space - psychophysical effects of visual music - how visual music stimulates the senses."(US/JP/DK) Bio at: ht…