Visual Music

Screengrab of Praxinoscopes webpage:  http://www.dickbalzer.com/Praxinoscopes.599.0.html Richard Balzer has been collecting early optical toys and he and his assistant have digitized many of the discs and outputs from these toys into digital animations, to create a kind of digital museum of historical early moving images. " I have been collecting for more than thirty years, and my collecting wanders around the theme of visual entertainment, and almost all of the collection dates from before 1900. Over time you will find magic lanterns, peepshows, shadows, transparencies, thaumatropes, phenakistascopes and a variety of other optical toys.  " Source:  http://www.dickbalzer.com/ " Nearly five hundred years ago European collectors arranged their pie…

Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano with Uli Mitzlaff at lumina, Cascais    "Published on 14 Oct 2015 This german artist proposes us some serious entertainment. An abstract language of lines, spots and dynamic plans which represent visually music activated by the artist through a MIDI keyboard. Committing the audience in the performance by creating various graphic patterns that expands the geometry of the surrounding architecture, just as the thundering winter approaches in a manipulated and controlled chaos by the artist. Kurt Laurenz Theinert is an artist of light and other different media, who acts live preferably, having his artwork “Visual Piano” being previously presented in cities all around the world. Conceived in collaboration with Philipp Rah…