Skip to main content

Visual Music

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.

Search This Blog

Home
About This Blog
Resources
Video Resources
List of All Blog Posts

Showing posts from January, 2015

Posts

Capital Irish Film Festival: Music and Multimedia Concert
Capital Irish Film Festival: Music and Multimedia Concert - Washington DC A music and multimedia concert curated by composer Sarah O'Halloran as part of the Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF) showcases a selection of fixed-media works featuring original music and original moving images by mainly Ireland based composers and moving image artists. "Enjoy opera with animation, Irish dance with sound art, and abstract video art with ambient electronics then vote for your favorite piece. The makers of the Audience Choice work will win a $1500 prize." Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015 from 5.00 to 6.30pm at the Goethe Institut, Wachington DC, US. See website for more information and for booking details: http://www.solasnua.org/calendar/music-and-mul…

on January 23, 2015

Exhibition Festivals Events Exhibitions Conferences Festivals Multimedia Concert Music Concert

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Visual Music Award 2015 - Call For Works
Visual Music Award 2015 - Call for Entries NOW Starting right now - submission deadline May 15th 2015 The Visual Music Award 2015 is a junior creative competition for works on music visualizations from the fields of new media art, experimental film or animation. We invite you to participate with your work for the Visual Music Award 2015 Call for Entries 2015 . The submission deadline is on friday May 15th 2014 . As submissions to the Visual Music Award 2015 and the Visual Music Live Contest 2015 we expect interpretations of music by visionary artistic visualisations. The holistic media compositions should come close to "paintings in time", "visual music", "symphonies of light and sound", "cinematic paintings&…

on January 15, 2015

2015 animation Call for works Exhibitions Conferences Festivals experimental film Live Contest Music visualizations new media art Visual Music Visual Music Award

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Maura McDonnell

Maura McDonnell is a visual music artist and researcher based in Ireland. She creates visuals for new music and electronic music concerts, fixed media and installation productions. The medium of choice is visual effects and generative effects video and the style of her work is abstract. The meaningfulness that she seeks in her work is to explore the emotional, musical and evocativeness potential of music in a shared similarly crafted visual world. Maura also lectures on the M.Phil in Music Media Technology Masters Course at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and support students to engage with visual music in their own works. Please get in touch if you would like to include your work or research on this blog.

Email:
mmcdonn@gmail.com

Website:
www.mauramcdonnell.com

Archive

2024 3

2023 4
2022 10
2021 6
2020 13
2019 6
2018 4
2017 9
2016 17
2015 12
2014 11
2013 17
2012 21
2011 51
2010 38
2009 54
2008 31
2007 40
2006 712
2005 213

Show more Show less

Labels

1844
2-channel video
2005
2009
2010
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017

Show more Show less

Links to Useful Resources

Center for Visual Music
Cimatics
Colour and Sound - Visual Music
Digicult
IotaCenter
Musica Visual
Pixelsumo
Projet Synesthéorie
Rhythmic Light
Seeing Sound Symposium
Sonore-visuel
Video Circuits
Visual Music Archive
Visual Music Marathon
Visual Music Ning

Popular Posts

D.D. Jameson - Colour Music (1844)

D.D. Jameson devised a systematic approach to create a colour music score for a specially adapted piano. His scores took the information from a piano music score and applied it to a sound-music colour scheme and translated it into a colour score. The colour score communicated the musical information - such as notes, rhythm, durations. His score was to link to a special adaptation of a piano music instrument that would have the keys prepared with the relevant colours. The musician could then play the piano by following the colour music score. Not only were the piano keys to be coloured according to his colour to tone analogy system but the score was to also communicate other aspects of the musicianship such as: the intervals of the music, the notes and their octaves, by mapping the height of the colour to the octave of the note and the width of the colour to the duration of the note. "A pianoforte having been prepared in the manner described, any air may be slo

Contact - Augmented Acoustics

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.coroflot.com/felixfaire/profile Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/felixfaire

International Call for Works - VISUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

I am very happy to announce the call for works for visual music films for a visual music festival devoted to contemporary practice to be held at the University of Kentucky, US. Why I am very proud is one of my former students is involved in organising this, well done Kristine SCFA Visual Music Festival 2025 @ The University of Kentucky Call for visual music films, Deadline is 15th December 2024 General Rules: • The films must be made entirely with abstract imagery, avoiding representation. That is: no cars, no people, no landscapes, no texts, etc. • You can use any technique you’d like: drawing, video composition, cgi, scratch, op-art, stop-motion, camera-less… • The soundtrack cannot feature any words, in any language. If you’re using a song, this must be instrumental or feature non-narrative voices, (no lyrics). • Maximum running time is 8 minutes. • Open and/or closing credits are welcome. • Films must have been produced after 2017. • We kindly request authors to enter their film/s

Larry Cuba - Extract from Film First Fig (1974)

Larry Cuba gave a master class at Punto Y Raya Festival in 2023, October 11. It is now available to watch on the Punto Y Raya YouTube Channel. In this master class he gives us an incredible archaeological dig (as he introduces his class) into the early days of computer graphics and how he made his computer animated graphic films. Incredibly, he shows a short excerpt of one of his first computer graphic films made at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California in 1974. Excerpt of First Fig by Larry Cuba 1974

Powered by Blogger

Maura McDonnell