Visual Music

Important Exhibition on the Works of Oskar Fischinger  co-organized by the Center for Visual Music Source Link 16th December, 2012, 14.00pm Two Events Performance by Barbara Fischinger , on Oskar Fischinger's Lumigraph Oskar Fischinger Retrospective - Program Two : Rare Works - Screening of Rare Works by Oskar Fischinger (60 min) EYE Film Institute , Amsterdam A very special event, a rarely performed: Lumigraph performance by Barbara Fischinger, assisted by Cindy Keefer at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, before a screening of Oskar Fischinger's rarely seen works, Retrospective - Program Two: Rare Works (compilation ) More information about the Lumigraph Performance http://eyefilm.nl/sites/default/files/Dancing%20With%20Your%20Hands.pdf More information on Oskar Fischinger Retro - Program Two: Rare Works (compilation ) http://www.eyefilm.nl/en/oskar-fischinger-retro-program-two-rare-works?show_id=635365 Oskar Fischinger Retrospective - Program Two: ...

Source: Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst, CVM page Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst , a new recreation by the Center for Visual Music of Oskar Fischinger's 1920s multiple-projector performance is installed in a number of museums. It is installed in Tate Modern, London on the 5th Floor, Collection Displays until 17th May 2013 - so if you get a chance do go and see. Tate Modern , London, through May 17, 2013, 5th Floor, Collection Displays I have seen this installation in Tate Modern and was lucky to be at its opening.  The interplay of Fischinger's visuals across the three screens is a real visual music feast.  The quality of the images were really beautiful as well as the presentation and very large scale installation.  The installation has its own  dedicated dark room space.  Quite wonderful to see the work of such a pivotal, historical pioneer of visual music in Tate Modern It was also installed in The Whitney Museum, New York from J...

A Concrete Cinema? one of several articles and presentations by Christian Gosvig Olesen on the Curating the Moving Image Blog. Christian has researched this area with great thoroughness and his articles are an excellent resource for those tracking the history of visual music and audiovisual work where there one of its main focuses is on music. In contemporary audiovisual practice, visuals are presented with electroacoustic music and in particular there are many contemporary flavours of music concrete music being used alongside a visual equivalent - a moving image concrete. Concrete cinema is a most apt term here as used by Christian in his articles. He traces the connections with Pierre Schaeffer, whom used the term cinéma concret to describe the intention to work with cinema and music where the cinema is 'A visual counterpoint to what he, together with fellow composer Pierre Henry, had conceived as musique concrète in the late 1940′s." [Source: http://2011.curatingthemovi...

"This work is the result of a chance meeting between two studies: one sound: a study by Pierre Schaeffer , the other visual: sequences shot by the artist Raymond Hains with fluted lens whose movements multiply and colorful animated graphics." google translate from website link below Link: http://www.ina.fr/fresques/artsonores/fiche-media/InaGrm00201/etude-aux-allures.html Article: Aural Vision and Non-Sense – A certain cinema… that one could call concrete on Curating the Moving Image Blog and article post A concrete cinema link

Mark Rowan-Hull - Performance Painting Mark explores 'the invigorating ephemeral qualities of visual art and the encapsulating of time in Music via performance'.  He creates and performs painting responding to music.   "In order to publicise his ideas of visualising music Mark embarked on a series of exciting performances and events involving painting live on stage responding to music by composers such as Messiaen, Scriabin, Debussy, Shostakovich and George Crumb together with Jazz and improvisation. These performances took place in a wide variety of settings including the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Festival Hall, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club. source:  http://www.rowan-hull.com/biography/ Website:  http://www.rowan-hull.com/ Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/rowanhull Performance at South Bank Centre, November 2011 https://vimeo.com/42782825

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU HEAR Lis Rhodes recent work, Light Music is installed in Tate Modern, London, Uk from 18th July - 28th October, 2012. " Light Music  is an innovative work presented originally as a performance that experiments with celluloid and sound to push the formal, spatial and performative boundaries of cinema. An iconic work of expanded cinema, it creates a more central and participatory role for the viewer within a dynamic, immersive environment... Light Music  is Rhodes’s response to what she perceived as the lack of attention paid to women composers in European music. She composed a ‘score’ comprised of drawings that form abstract patterns of black and white lines onscreen. The drawings are printed onto the optical edge of the filmstrip. As the bands of light and dark pass through the projector they are ‘read’ as audio, creating an intense soundtrack, forming a direct, indexical relationship between the sonic and the visual. What one hears is the aura...

Sergio Maltagliati CIRCUS 5.1 UNICUM GRAPHICS The images of HomeArt programs by Pietro Grossi, are proposed through software by Sergio Maltagliati. This is a software which generates always different graphical variations.  It is based on HomeArt’s Basic source code.  The music program produces an automatic and generative music,starting from a simple sound cell. Visu@lMusic/HomeArt www.visualmusic.it free video download: http://www.pietrogrossi.org/cerchio4_2_unicum.7z download images: http://www.pietrogrossi.org/Cerchio_4_2%20immagini.7z About "A/V interactive compositions on the NET by Sergio Maltagliati Beginning with netOper@ in 1997, Sergio Maltagliati has created works on the Internet that combine audio and video elements into an intriguing interactive Internet experience. As far as a formal education, Maltagliati studied music at the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, Italy. Shortly after he finished his education at the Conservatory he bega...

OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT JUNE 28–OCTOBER 28, 2012 Whitney Museum, Los Angeles "This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made—Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a recreation of his multiple-screen film events first shown in Germany in 1926, recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in its format, its multiple screens of abstract shapes, color, and light produced an experience that, in Fischinger’s own description of his work, created “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.” Source and for more information visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OskarFischinger Visit Center for Visual Music (CVM) events page for more visual music exhibitions and events http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm

David West's very beautiful piece exploring that luminous quality of light and colour. "Samadhi is a visual music work that is a tribute to the films of computer graphic pioneers, John and James Whitney. The term 'samadhi' is a Sanskrit term for a higher level of awareness. The graphics were produced in Autodesk Maya using fluids and particles." The soundtrack is called 'Evolution' by Absorption http://youtu.be/2yppl2T1Djs Youtube embed

Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons on vimeo http://vimeo.com/31319154 I previously posted an excerpt from the stunning rheo: 5 from the youtube website.  Ryoichi Kurokawa's vimeo channel is worth checking out and the wonderful rheo: 5 is on that. This is a beautiful work, and there is something about odd numbers.  The arrangement into 5 screens is really interesting, it reminds me also of the earlier work Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes - again an arrangement of an odd number of screens, this time 3, it also deals with horizon. I did a short blog post on my other blog - sounding visual blog on Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes, recently reshown. see: http://soundingvisual.blogspot.com/2012/01/roy-lichtensteins-three-landscapes.html Excerpt Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons "Audiovisual installation2010 5 HD displays | 5ch multi sound Duration: 08'00" Loop" rheo: 5 horizons from RYOICHI KUROKAWA on Vimeo . Website: http://www...

Jean Detheux - "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." what a great title - posting latest news on Jean Detheux's visual music work "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." is a film in 6 movements, based on related texts of E. E. Cummings that focus on themes of nature and the cycle of life. The sonic material, created by Mikel Kuehn mikelkuehn.com/, is derived from manipulated environmental sounds and the recitation of Cummings texts by soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn. The images were created first (the idea was to create a life in 4 parts, followed by a "recollection" of that life, as if at the moment of death, in the 5th and final movement). The sonic material came later and added an in-between part, visually blank, thus bringing the total to 6 movements." [The work with be presented at The Thirteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Symposium 2012 Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New Lon...

Jt Root, music-visualist and VJ known as Aeonchild, works out of Boulder, Colorado as a Production Designer and Live VJ Performer. Recently has created a visualist piece - The Aeonchild Visualist Project, a commissioned work by Ballet Nouveau Colorado's production of "Love in the Digital Age". source:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeonchild/6820176415/in/photostream I am very taken with the term 'visualist' or 'music-visualist' that Aeonchild uses to describe his process of interpreting music, here is a quote from his website explaining this term. "Aeonchild’s work re-interprets music into a visual language, spinning cosmic messages with symmetrical precision. Through the use of motion graphics, video, light and color, he mixes futuristic visions with ancient symbols of sacred geometry. The result is a visceral experience that fuses sight and sound while teasing the senses with visible rhythms." Source:  http://aeonchild.com/about/ ...

Daniel Palacios - Waves "A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element... But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations." Source: http://danielpalacios.info/en/waves Vimeo Link Waves from Daniel Palacios on Vimeo . Vimeo Description of video documentation "Waves' utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installati...

As part of the Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time Festival,  a programme on Colour Music is being shown on 24th February, 2012 Colour Music Recollections De Balie Friday 24 February 17:00 - 18:30 "A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles Dockum on his ‘Mobilcolor’ instrument, the first recreation of Oskar Fischinger‘s multi-projector shows and a rare screening of documentation of the 1968 recreation by Kurt Schwerdtfeger of the very first light experiments at the Bauhaus. This programme will mark the launch of the posthumous publication of the book The Academy of the Senses, Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education by Frans Evers, one of the founders of both the Sonic Acts festival and the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. The programme will be introduced by Joost Rekveld . This programme has been made possible with the kind support of ...

Soundmachines - an instrument for performing electronic music "Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer. The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen New Beetle stand at the IAA motor show in late Summer 2011. In cooperation with the sounddesigner/ producer Yannick Labbé of TRICKSKI fame, we developed three unique discs, each controlling one track of an Ableton Live Set exclusively made for the Event. The show was supported by a set of realtime generated visuals, running on a 25m wide LED wall." source:  http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines Vimeo demonstration see also:  http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/soundmachines-objects-sound/

Very interesting projects - book, CD, research by Konstantin Zadorozhnikov on cimatics/cymatics and music.  Konstantin Zadorozhnikov composes music according to i-ching, and used cymatics to demonstrate the beautiful patterns this creates.  However, this kind of music and cymatics is used in a muscial feng sui to provide a type of healing in a home. "Based on his discoveries, he created the project musical matrix, which gained fame through a series of "Symphony of Change", executable "Konstantin Magical Mystery Orchestra". This music is unusual is the fact that mathematically corresponds exactly to the universal matrix of I-Ching, which is called "Chinese Bible" and "Ancient computer. Scientifically proven and compliance of the matrix system of genetic coding. Creating a "musical mandalas - the most important way of musical Fee Shui. Using the work "Symphony of Change" is not necessary to carry out complex calculations to spe...

Scott Snibbe a media artist, filmmaker and researcher in interactivity and an artist whose work embraces visual music approaches, has just released a really interesting application for the iPad, whereby an individual or a networked group of individuals can create visual music type animations together, using a responsive animation with touch. The animations look very beautiful, are customisable and look like a lot of fun to experiment with or to perform with? Link to MotionPhone App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motionphone-hd/id373089458?mt=8usg=AFQjCNGrpboR5cOaBX_E-QXl6GW0uh8Gtw Information about MotionPhone on Scott's website: http://www.snibbe.com/blog/2012/02/03/motionphone/ The really interesting aspect of this project/application is that it is based on Scott's original development of Motion Phone 23 years ago in 1995, where he developed a networked version using Silicon Graphics workstations and this very version was seen by many contemporary interac...

Pedro Mari/ Defetto Very beautiful harmonious colour - very musical, like the harmonics available in a music tone. These images are as beautiful still as they are in motion. source image:  http://www.defetto.com/1117/14230/works/iiiii-aii-panta-rhei see also flickr: flickr.com/photos/defetto/sets/72157602683025565/ "Everything is subject to change. The harmony of things is contained in their perennial change. This change is not random or chaotic; it is governed by precise rhythms. πάντα ῥει is an eternal flow, constantly evolving, never equal to himself." source:  http://www.defetto.com/1117/14230/works/iiiii-aii-panta-rhei Vimeo embed (silent) πάντα ῥει from defetto on Vimeo . Website:   http://www.defetto.com/ vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/defetto

Visual artist - Video artist - Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński hypnotic neon like imagery - a kind of beat video - forwards, backwards motion, light filled colour.  Colour with a hint of volume, graphical figures with a slight sense of depth.  Lovely (I am in a one word, adjective type description mode these days!) Awake Awake from Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński on Vimeo . Minimal music vs minimal visualisation. Music: Emptyset - Awake Picture: Mikołaj Pasiński http://vimeo.com/12325755

Arístides García Staub Leben - Live reactive environment This is quite incredible - in its drama, and visual impact and performance.  Staub Leben Vimeo Link http://vimeo.com/34756702   Staub Leben from lasal on Vimeo . Credits for project on vimeo link  "UdK Berlin, Intermediales Bewegungslabor. Campus-Kollision, Januar 2012, HZT-Uferstudios. Prof. Nik Haffner: Projektleitung. Arístides García: Projektleitung, Konzept, Programmierung. Nikola Pieper: Technische Leitung. Körper: Emilia Pfohl, Marine Bertrand, Hanne Müller, Marieke Hohberge, Swann Nowak. Juan Gabriel Harcha : Tanzer. Hannes Mück : Kamera." Arístides García - website link http://aristidesgarcia.tumblr.com/works

Richard Lainhart's audio visual work I have been a fan of, ever since I encountered one of my favourite audio visual works, Pneuma.  I have already blogged about this work previously.  I am very saddened to hear that Richard died on the 30th December, 2011.  So as a tribute to him and his wonderful piece Pneuma, I am reposting it here and am very saddened to hear this news. PNEUMA - Richard Lainhart http://vimeo.com/1014353 Pneuma from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo . "Pneuma" is based on growth patterns generated by celluar automata software, processed in Adobe After Effects to create constantly changing structures ranging from the crystalline to the architectural. The soundtrack is a live improvisation on the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer, controlled by the Haken Audio Continuum Fingerboard fretless keyboard controller. This HD version was rendered in May, 2008. Warning: "Pneuma" displays an intense, periodic flicker pattern that some may ...