Visual Music

"Space Light Art" - Early Abstract Cinema and Multimedia, 1900-1959 by Cindy Keefer Article online at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/CKSLAexc.htm

Fraction et Pierre Hébert en concert à la Maison de la culture d'Amiens, 29 janvier 2011, partie-2 Extract of the live performance of Pierre Hebert & Fraction@Amiens, France. 20/01/2011. Image and music are improvised. Fraction - Part Two Part One and Three are also online at youtube Part One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCn96-U5Gs0&feature=related Part Three - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45oEETTjq4&feature=related

USC School of Cinematic Arts Event - Rhythms and Visions: Expanded and Live! The USC School of Cinematic Arts and Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative invite you to experience a live visual music sensation on Friday, April 22nd! "The School of Cinematic Arts Complex will be taken over and transformed by Rhythms and Visions: Expanded and Live! a spectacular outdoor live-cinema event merging animation and visual media with live acoustic and electronic music. Exciting and innovative UK audio-visual collective D-Fuse and Los Angeles artist Scott Pagano will perform to music by notable musicians Brian King, Trifonic, Brian LeBarton and MB Gordy. These cutting-edge performances will span animation, experimental documentary and abstract visual music. The School of Cinema Arts complex will come alive with large animation and 3-D stereoscopic projections by faculty and students. 3-D glasses will be provided." More info: http://cinema.usc.edu/event...

Beautiful use of sound and image and animation and narrative and structure. Had to share it. "Director: Georges Schwizgebel Year: 1998 Music: Michèle Bokanowski - Composition Gerard Frémy - Piano Olivier Bokanowski - Piano Virginie Simonean - Harp"

Jane Cassidy's visual music piece "The Night After I Kicked it" is a stunningly beautiful well structured visual music composition. Jane composed the visuals and music.  Having watched closely as Jane composed this piece, it was really a pleasure to see and hear this wonderful work unfold over a period of months. I love this piece. It is now on vimeo - but to see it in full quality with surround sound audio is the best way to experience this piece. However for its visual music genius, great to watch on vimeo. The Night After I Kicked It from Jane Cassidy on Vimeo .

Davor Sanvincenti  / b.1979 / is a International multimedia artist from Croatia, also known by monikers such as Messmatik  and  Gurtjo Ningmor International multimedia artist from Croatia, specifically interested in a field of audiovisual research and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. He is recipient of the Radoslav Putar Award 2010 for the best Croatian artist under 35. Website:  http://www.messmatik.net/ Hauntingly Beautiful Piece luminokinetika /// trailer from messmatik on Vimeo . see also: http://www.messmatik.net/

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, color filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time. -- DESCRIPTION FROM THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA website url:  http://www.onf.ca/film/rectangle_et_rectangles More information on the filmmaker on the NFB website http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/Rene-Jodoin/overview.php

I was lucky to be involved in the creation of the visual music visuals for a collaborative work entitled "Silk Chroma". Working as a collaborative team to create this work was a wonderful experience. The Irish composer Linda Buckley was a pleasure to work with and the electro-acoustic composition that she composed is beautiful. Linda and I worked closely together to realise the ideas for the work, interestingly Linda described much of the music she would like to create in visual terms that really appealed to me and inspired the visuals. Similarly some visuals and still images that I created inspired sounds and timbres for Linda. Good stuff. Silk Chroma is an audio-visual work that is inspired by the novella Silk by Alessandro Baricco as a conceptual framework for the creation of a Visual Music colour presentation, with an accompanying electro-acoustic musical composition using synthesized timbres and a surround sound presentation. Silk Chroma was created by staff...

"A/V performance for a tryptic of HD video screens and quadraphonic audio White Box is a work based on a new way of generating A/V compositions in real time and is a new piece in a cycle that began in 2003 with Black Box." VIEW ON VIMEO WHITE BOX | Excerpts from Purform on Vimeo . http://www.vimeo.com/21573910