Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Philipp Rahlenbeck - Visual Piano with Uli Mitzlaff

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 Rahlenbeck, this artwork subsists in a device that allows the artist to fill spaces in real time with visual elements without resorting to pre-fabricated clips. Pure live visual music! Ulrich Mitzlaff is living in Portugal since 1996, where he works as a cellist and composer in the area of contemporary and experimental music, free jazz, improvisation and sound-art. He also collaborates with some of the most innovative Portuguese artists and participates in several multidisciplinary projects." Source: youtube description
https://youtu.be/odQ2rnS0jAs

Website: http://www.theinert-lichtkunst.de/

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

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...

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 fi...

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