Visual Music

Johnathan Gillie's animations are such surreal worlds which animate in the most unusual manner where many things exist at different times and in different spatial locations with their own temporal appearance and disapearance, for his work 'Ways of seeing' he considers the physiological processes involved in the act of seeing itself. Very beautiful and intriguing work. Ways of Seeing A Broken Bell  He has been working in Moving Image since 1995. Is involved with Trampoline Multimedia 1997-2000 and is one half of av_dv 1999-2004. He is currently employed as Senior Technician in Moving Image Dept of NTU.  His current practice involves video, animation, computer graphics and sound production. More Information Johnathan Gillie - [Creative Journal  We…

I have just come across the work of Andreas Karaoulanis. His animations are 'stop me in my tracks' beautiful. I have watched some from his vimeo channel, but felt I must post this to keep track of this great work. Why do I like it? The illustrations in a moving collage type style are so rhythmic. The movements and the flat arrangement of objects and cut outs in a formless and groundless space, in fact, the space is just a background colour in many works, is perfectly in tune with the musicality of the music, not just a synchronised beat but a whole mood, style and playfulness that may not even be apparent in the music, if one listened to the music on its own, but emerges with his playful rhythms and arrangement and positioning of independent yet connect…

UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT), Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles), and Corwin Chair, UCSB Department of Music, present  Exploring Visual Music - A special one day Symposium November 16, 2013 University of California, Santa Barbara 11 am, CSNI, Elings Hall, Lab 2611 "To further the development of new modes and technologies for representation and creation in the field of Visual Music, MAT, CVM and Corwin Chair present a one-day symposium investigating the aesthetics, techniques and histories of visual music. The event at UCSB includes a series of 20 minute talks by invited presenters, plus short screenings of historical and contemporary visual music films. Presenters include Clarence Barlow, Cindy Keefer, Jack Ox, Casey Mongoven, and special gue…

Matthew Biederman's work Event Horizon , multichannel HD video, 4.1 audio, custom software, computers 2012, is an incredible sensation of colour. And what can I say but put it that way - a sensation of colour. Commissioned for: 1st Biennial of Digital Art, Montreal and Presented at: Salle McLaren, Cinematheque Quebecqoise May 3 - June 10, 2012. An interview about it is included in the recent Sonic Acts Catalogue, 2013, Dark Universe More information on the work:  http://www.mbiederman.com/Event-Horizon "The work metaphorically explores the phenomenon of the ‘event horizon’. Understood scientifically, the term refers to the space-time beyond which events cannot affect an observer. The most common situation where this occurs naturally are the edges of a…

SoundImageSound 10 ~ Festival of New Music and Visual Image January 30/31, 2014 Conservatory of Music ~ University of the Pacific ~ Stockton, California Call for Works: This year SoundImageSound celebrates its tenth season with presentations of works by artists who bridge sound and visual image in the creation of compositions sometimes referred to as visual music or intermedia. The festival again hosts an open submission process for new works by artists from around the globe. In honor of its tenth season, SoundImageSound welcomes guest artist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski to the festival. Composer, performer, and intermedia artist, Kapuscinski is on the faculty of Stanford University where he directs the Intermedia Lab at CCRMA. During the festival he will speak abo…

Exhibition Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia at Raven Row, London Exhibition tour with Lars Bang Larsen Thursday 31 October, 6.30pm Lars Bang Larsen will lead a tour of the exhibition Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia in conversation with Alex Sainsbury. This event is free but booking is essential as space is very limited. Please email info@ravenrow.org to reserve a place. Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia Exhibition continues until 15 December 2013 To many artists in the sixties who referred to the counterculture, or who used hallucinogenic drugs as an artistic tool, the term ‘psychedelic’ was seen as compromised and the idea of a ‘psychedelic art’ resisted. It is for this r…

The online article "A Brief History of Optical Synthesis" was written by Derek Holzer in 2007 as part of his Tonewheels project exploring optical sound and colour music. This web article became the basis of a lecture that Derek gives on optical sound and graphical composition. Quote from introduction "The technology of synthesizing sound from light is a curious combination of research from the realms of mathematics, physics, electronics and communications theory which found realization in the industries of motion picture films, music, surveillance technology and finally digital communications. As such, it's history is an interesting cross section of 20th century history, reaching from the euphoria of the late 19th Century and early 20th Cent…

Vibeke Sorensen's Visual Music Installation, Illuminations is being presented as part of the ART section of the 3-D Festival Beyond at Karlsruhe, Germany from 03 October to 06 October, 2013. The installation was also held at the International Visual Music Symposium of the Center for Asian Art & Design, (CAAD) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, October 12 - 14, 2012.  I attended the installation in Singapore, and it quite stunning.  The screens are presented at angles in a darkened room and the imagery is luminous and colourful.  The interaction between the imagery on each screen is analagous to a visual music. Illuminations Installation Description on the Festival Website "ILLUMINATIONS is a real-time computer generated visual musi…

Press Release from the Punto Y Riya Festival and CALL FOR WORKS As you probably know,  Punto y Raya  &  Reykjavík Center for Visual Music  have joined to produce the greatest event in the history of abstract visual music and live cinema: the  Reykjavík Visual Music  -  Punto y Raya Festival 2014 , which will take place  from  January 30 th to  February 2 nd   2014  at  HARPA  Concert Hall (Iceland).  The deadline for the  CALLS FOR ENTRIES  is  October 28th 2013 , and it's approaching fast! There is no entry fee and the films & live set demos are submitted online through our website.  www.puntoyrayafestival.com ::   SHORT FILM  CALL FOR ENTRIES Open to abstract films experimenting with  dots & lines  and avoiding representation.  All techniques are welc…

Image( c) Center for Visual Music. Kreise (Circles), 1933-34 by Oskar Fischinger LECTURE  Preserving Visual Music: The Archives of Center for Visual Music Next Wednesday (October 2nd, 2013 at 1.00 pm in the ATRL ( ATRL.ie ), Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Cindy Keefer, the director of the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles, will be discussing and screening selections from the CVM archive. For those interested in visual music, abstract cinema, expanded cinema, experimental film, this is a must hear and see talk and a great opportunity to hear about the preservation and archiving work of the CVM and an opportunity to meet its director in person. Keefer has co-edited a recently published book on Oskar Fischinger, Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cin…

Fractal is a contemporary music production company set up by Anna Murray and Philip Lawson. It aims to create new contexts for contemporary music through informal settings and collaboration with other media. We are dedicated to new Irish music, programming full concerts of works by Irish composers, including specially commissioned music. Fractal have put on a number of music concert events that included a visual element, some of these have been in a music performance setting, where visual artists worked on creating visuals for existing music compositions (or did both for the case of a music composer creating their own visuals).   Their first concert was for the Dublin Culture Night in 2012, this concert also toured Dublin, Mayo and Cork. Visit  https://ww…

Found: new restorations and discoveries from Center for Visual Music Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Thursday 26 September 2013, 19.00 – 21.00 £5, concessions available. "This selection explores lost, legendary and rare treasures found in the archives of Center for Visual Music (CVM). Featuring rare works by Jordan Belson, including two unreleased films, the unfinishedQuartet and the premiere of the restoration of the infamous LSD, plus a reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex Concerts (1957–9), and the rarely screened Bopscotch...The programme, featuring many new preserved 16 mm and 35 mm prints, is introduced by archivist/curator Cindy Keefer of CVM." Visit Tate Modern web page for more information www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern…

A very interesting project consisting of experiments, exhibitions and research in a new medium in audio-visual screenless animation: The Diasynchronoscope  proejct is really a very exciting find, and really worth checking out. The artists and researchers from TROPE (Joint artistic partnership of Carol and Bruno, co-creators of the Diasynchronoscope) are the creators of this new medium. What the medium consists of is a series of physical objects are positioned in space according to Gestalt and animation principles and then animated with synchronized sound using projection mapping technologies. The artists and researchers consider that this might be called ‘concrete animation’. Because the Diasynchronoscope is a screen-less medium‚ videos do notreplicate the ex…

Seeing Sound 3 is now open for submissions - call for works, and papers and in particular live performance works.   DEADLINE for submissions is 27th SEPTEMBE R.  Symposium takes place on 23/24 November, 2013 at Bath Spa University. Practice-Led Research Symposium, Bath Spa University "Seeing Sound is an informal practice-led symposium exploring multimedia work which foregrounds the relationship between sound and image." "It explores areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, audiovisual performance and installation practice through paper sessions, screenings, performances and installations." "This year’s event will have a focus on live performance, but as in previous years, Seeing Sound will also be open …

Featured on the amazing website - Creative Applications Net (CAN) http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/dedalo-an-instrument-by-quayola-sinigaglia-to-see-the-sound/ Dedalo - An instrument by Quayola & Natan Sinigaglia to 'see' the sound "Developed as a collaboration between Quayola & Sinigaglia, Dedalo is a collection of custom developed vvvv engines (and a toolkit) to generate, exchange and map data between a series of graphics modules and a rendering engine used for live performance and audiovisual concerts... The project began as a collaboration in 2010 with the development of software called  Partitura . The aim was to create an instrument for performance that would allow visualisation of sound in realtime... Dedalo is built…

The 'I Hear a New World' Visual Music Exhibition ends on the 31st August, 2013 Visit: http://ihearanewworldexhibition.blogspot.ie/ for more details of the visual music works being exhibited at the Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland http://ihearanewworldexhibition.blogspot.ie/ "I Hear A New World is a dynamic Visual Music exhibition taking place in Athlone's Luan Gallery from July 11th - August 31st 2013. It features work by leading Irish and international artists, composers and film makers and offers gallery-goers a unique opportunity to immerse themselves within this exciting and innovative art form. I Hear A New World is curated by artists Mike Glennon and Anthony Wigglesworth" Both Mike and Anthony are talented composers/…

Some excellent resources now available in relation to the early 20th Century Drawn Sound experiments that took place in Russia.  This recent news comes from some very timely facebook posts by the Center for Visual Music. Andrei Smirnov's book 'Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia is just recently published and is available in Europe to purchase.  Andrei presented an incredible paper at the recent 'Seeing Sound Symposium', 2011, held in Bath Spa of which I attended and saw and heard the incredible work and experiments presented in relation to this period. " Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia Edited by David Rogerson, Matt Price. Foreword by Jeremy …