Visual Music

"Jan Mayen" is the title for a music video directed by Michael Fragstein at Büro Achter April for Boozoo Bajou´s Album '4'. The video is really beautiful. Abstract as the director says just like the music. There are some really lovely animations of forms into and out of other forms and I love the colour combinations. Very intersting work being created by Michael and his team at Büro Achter April, they are based in Stuttgart, Germany. Work divided into stills, motion, design engineering and interactive with the really relevant subtitle "Digitale Form". More information: Michael Fragstein at Büro Achter April: http://8apr.de/studio.html Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/59911840 Boozoo Bajou: http://www.boozoobajou.com/ Vimeo embed of J…

The 4th Moscow international light and multimedia festival «Circle of Light» will be held from 11th to 14th October, 2014 in Moscow, Russia. The festival will include a selection of works from the international call for works for the International Projection Mapping Art Vision Contest. The theme of the competition is "Light around the world". The Contest of 2014 will be held in three different locations that will be divided according to the general idea of projections shown: VDNH Pavilion 1 Art Vision Classic http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/classic/ VDNH Pavilion 12 Art Vision Modern http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/modern/ VDNH Pavilion 32 + Full scale model of Rocket Art Vision VJing Battle http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision…

" Visual hearings, a synesthetic experience " is an online international group exhibition curated by Enrique Salmoiraghi. The online exhibition is based in Argentina. It will be online from July 2014 to October 2014. The exhibition consists of visual music works and in particular audio-visuals experiments in reactivity. For more information visit the online exhibition at: http://www.espaciobyte.org/espaciobyte.php?cat=108

Felix Faire (UK), a Parametric System Designer had designed some very interesting interactive installations. One of these, Contact is an interface with which to manipulate and visualize sounds. Beautiful results. View Contact: Augmented Acoustics CONTACT: Augmented Acoustics from Felix Faire on Vimeo . "CONTACT is a tangible audio interface to manipulate and visualize sounds generated from interaction with a simple wooden surface. Any physical contact with the table generates acoustic vibrations which are manipulated and visualized LIVE as they occur using several communicating pieces of software. All code will be opensource and available on github. Bartlett School of Architecture Msc AAC Tutor: Ruairi Glynn" More information: http://www.c…

Force.Line.Border by Casey Farina is a beautiful audiovisual work that consists of an animated score where the movie serves as the score for three musicians who interpret a section of the screen. The design of the visual composition and the simplicity of the idea to work with three ideas/parameters of force, line and border is combined with the percussive sounds and motions so elegantly. Work : Force.Line.Border Author : Casey Farina Date : Percussion : Douglas Nottingham, Joe Perez, and Robert Esler "Black = Sound White = Silence Force.Line.Border. is an animated graphic score for a trio of indeterminate instrumentation. This work is the latest in a series of animated graphic scores that builds on the concepts developed by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Cor…

Lumiére - An audiovisual live performance with laser projections "Three powerful white lasers draw rapid successions of ephemeral objects, seemingly floating in space. The data used to draw the shapes is transformed into audible frequencies. Laser patterns and sonic treatments are performed as an improvised dialog between the artist and the audiovisual machine. Lumière is an exploration of synchronicity and divergence, of light and darkness, movement and sound at the limits of perception." Source: http://www.monolake.de/concerts/lumiere.html Lumiére Technology Information Quote from technical page: "The lasers are controlled with analog signals, created in MaxMSP. These signals are technically the same type of signals used for audio, but …

Day 2 of PuntoyRaya and Reykjavik Visual Music Festival happening today - January 31st, 2014 Visit:  http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/schedule/friday#ag for more information Join their facebook page for stunning photographs from the opening night of the festival January 30th 2014 and some stunning live cinema/ audiovisual photographs from this event. https://www.facebook.com/rvmfestival

s+v+m Blog - Resource for sounds-visual-movement Rodrigo Carvalho Excellent resource in this blog by Rodrigo Carvalho of VISIOPHONE. In particular Carvalho uses the blog to keep a notebook on sounds-visual-movement topics (like a sister of this blog!) Really great articles on live performance work. To quote: "This blog intends to work as notebook for my research on synergies between Sound-Visuals-Movement, audiovisual interactive systems, augmented realities, graphic representations of sound and movement in real time, hypersensory immersive media and synaesthesia states." His recent post on graphic sound visualisers is just brilliant (courtesy of a facebook post one of the leaders in the field of live audio-visual performance, Max Hattler ) …

Solas Nua: Call for Music and Multi-Media Works from Irish contemporary artists "Solas Nua ( www.solasnua.org ) was founded in 2004 to present the best of Irish contemporary arts to audiences in the United States. We invite Irish composers and media artists to submit pieces which combine original music and multi-media to be shown in Washington D.C. in Autumn 2014. Selected works will be eligible for a $1500 prize, which will be based on audience votes. DETAILS: Closing Date: August 15th 2014 Duration: Works shorter than 6 minutes are preferred, but longer works will be considered. Solas Nua plans to show selected works in a concert event, and may also display works at a D.C. visual arts venue. This opportunity is open to Irish-born, and Irish-residen…

Visual Music Award 2014 Submission deadline: February 28th 2014 The "Visual Music Award 2014" is a creative competition for works on music visualizations from the fields of new media art, experimental film or animation. The Visual Music Award team invite you to participate with your work in this year's "Visual Music Award 2014" Please visit: http://visual-music-award.de/en for more information on how to submit your work "The Visual Music Award 2014 submission deadline ends on February 28th 2014 - The award ceremony will take place on March 28th 2014 in GeAs contributions to the "Visual Music Award 2014" and the "Visual Music Live Contest 2014" we expect interpretations of music by visionary artistic visua…