Call for Submissions: VIDEODROME 2012 April 01 / 2012 Call for Submissions: VIDEODROME 2012 at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Deadline: April 1st 2012 WEBSITE: http://www.dropframevideo.com/news.html Now accepting submissions of A/V works under 5 mins. VIDEODROME is Toronto's foremost event for Visual Music and A/V culture since 2004. Visual Music is video and audio composition made from video edits, simultaneously video AND music where picture matches sound, cut for cut, beat for beat, rhythmic media work where sound and image are equally dominant. See examples here: http://www.dropframevideo.com/videos.html Based on the Cronenberg concept, VIDEODROME is an exercise in televisionary excess and sensory overload, video screening as party and vice-versa, in the words of dropFRAMEvideo: "bridging the gaps between the sofa, the club, and the gallery." Works must be complete and received by April 1st by post at 193 Augusta, Toronto, ON, M5T 2L4...
The Visual Music blog by Maura McDonnell gathers resources of interest to the art of visual music. The blog in particular includes websites that document work, artists, filmmakers, composers, musicians, video artists, exhibitions, call for worlds and events that work with the art and medium of visual and sound. All forms and presentations of visual music and audiovisual composition and performance are considered. This blog contains an extensive archive as it has been active since 2005.