Visual Music

Live@CIRMMT presents: Videomusic Videomusic Concert The live@CIRMMT Performance Series includes four to six performances per year that highlight the artistic research output of CIRMMT. http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/videomusic On 8th December, 2016 Live@CIRMMT presented Videomusic presenting videomusic works of the following composers/artists. Bret Battey (US) https://vimeo.com/bathatmedia Julien Beau (France) https://vimeo.com/julienbeau Myriam Boucher (Canada) https://vimeo.com/user20638366 Line Katcho (Canada) https://vimeo.com/user18362331 Further Resources Article: Matter and Emotion: Myriam Boucher’s Waves of Sound and Light Posted by Taliesin Herb in FringeBlog on December 7, 2016 http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/videomusic Myriam Boucher - Cités _excerpt

Shoko Ise (Visuals) and Steve Jansen (Music) -"Swimming In Qualia - Ascent" Swimming In Qualia - Ascent The visuals and music in this music video installation work, "Swimming in Qualia - Ascent" are well matched. The visuals are by Shoko Ise and the music is by Steve Jansen. What strikes me as rather beautiful about this work is the misty, faded, soft look of the visuals in which shadows and suggestions of light coming in from afar are presented and the durations of the transitions and the movement suggest a gentle place. The long tones and gong like sounds suggest an atmosphere of gentle softness also.  There are some beautiful vertical cutting and crossfades of flowers, lilies and leaf foliage that create the most mesmerising effect. A visual technique that I have seen in many works, reminding me of the temporal cut up photographic collages of David Hockney but in the moving image temporal domain, Swimming In Qualia - Ascent Words: Maura McDo...

Ryoichi Kurokawa, arranging the audiovisual display Ryoichi Kurokawa creates stunning audiovisual work for music concert and installation settings. His aesthetic has a recognisable visual and sound, although that aesthetic does appear in lots of other visual and sound approaches by other artists working at this time, one can still recognise Kurokawa’s work. I did a bookmark type blog post in 2009 about his work. Revisiting his work and examining the documentaiton on his website (a really lovely experience in itself), his work has really developed in the interim period and in particular what is of note is his use of the display in his work in which he arranges in unusual positions. For example, in rheo: 5 horizons, the 5 HD plasma displays are arranged not horizontally but vertically and in sequence, each of these displays are fed a channel of video and there is 5 channels of sound. His recent work unfold (2016), consists of three projections arranged in a curvature presentat...

Un Souririe by Aurora Gasull  Auroral Gasull has been working in Visual Music for the last 10 years. Her latest work in ‘ Un Souririe ’ (A Smile) with music of Olivier Messiaen. This is a very beautiful animation, that has many visual worlds presentet to us akin to phrases in music, in which a visual world explores the music world and changes and transforms. Some very evocative scenes, for example, a really lovely expansive scene of colours shapes that work as a whole but which expand and contract into stretched or compressed shapes - lovely motion experiences. http://www.aurora.cat/auroraunsourire/ From biography on her website 'Born in Barcelona, cellist and member of a number of chamber groups up to 1990, she first approaches visual arts through photography, drawing and painting. She gains experience in multimedia with interactive design and does a Master in Musical Creation and Sound Technology (Pompeu Fabra University) and finally specializes in 3D with a Master in...

Visual Music Salon November 18, Los Angeles: A CVM Salon Event, in association with Blindspot Project. Featuring films by Jordan Belson, Joshua Light Show, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, David Lebrun, Harry Smith, John Stehura, Jud Yalkut, plus contemporary videos by Bret Battey, Scott Draves, Chris Harvey, Christina McPhee, Steve Woloshen and more. 16mm prints and digital, A Visual Music Salon - CVM and Blindspot presented by Cindy Keefer of CVM ; filmmakers Lebrun and Harvey in person. PLUS Live Music by Golden Animals, featuring liquid light show by The Blindspot Project and Joshua Payne Orchestra, featuring live video painting by Ryan Patrick Griffith More information: See Facebook Events Announcement for up to date information https://www.facebook.com/events/1834564693422053/ They will be screening screening the Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show film (1970) from archive

Video of performance of KIMA by Analemma Group and Union Chapel Organ Project at Union Chapel From description on Youtube Published on 25 Apr 2015 "In an epochal site-specific performance night, London based art collective Analema Group and the Union Chapel Organ Project transformed Union Chapel’s ornate wooden ceiling into a canvas for real time visual music . KIMA – ‘wave’ in ancient Greek – interprets music as interplay of light and form, an artistic quest for a new reading of sound. KIMA uses mathematical equations of cymatics – sound waves creating patterns on matter to organize sound in visual way. In Mare Undarum, Joby Burgess (powerplant) performed percussion improvisation with Claire M Singer – accompanied by the dancer Estela Merlos (previously at Rambert Dance Company). The second piece, Axis Mundi, brought together Robert Ames, London Contemporary Orchestra’s artistic director and Laura Moody (Elysian Quartet) and Claire M Singer on the organ. The evening came to a clo...

Beautiful animations from Matt Abbis From Matt’s website: Matt Abbiss animates, draws and lectures (mainly about animation). Website: http://cargocollective.com/abbiss Point by Matt Abbis

Analema Group presents KIMA: The Wheel at the London Roundhouse. The audience explores their voices as sound is transformed into visual form. KIMA: The Wheel @ Roundhouse (screengrab from youtube) "Analema Group presents KIMA – Wheel at the Roundhouse. On the 360 canvas of Ron Arad’s Curtain Call, the audience experiences sound as an immersive visual phenomenon. A sound poem, Evgenia Emets’ “Wheel” guides the audience in exploring their own voices.” Source: https://analemagroup.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/kima-wheel-performed-at-the-roundhouse-curtain-call/

Films Punto y Raya 2106 TRAILER: Punto y Raya Festival 2016 | Official Competition can be view on their vimeo channel. Great work done by Punto y Raya and KinoManual [kinomanual.pl] for the motion graphics and the compilation. The compilation itself is put together so well, it in itself is a pleasure to look and hear. Information on vimeo “:: Punto y Raya Festival 2016 OCTOBER 20th-23rd 2016 @ ZKM in KARLSRUHE, Germany. FREE ADMITTANCE until full capacity is reached. The sixth edition of Punto y Raya Festival encompasses four intensive and wonderful days of pure Abstract Art in Motion. These are the 117 films selected (out of the 842 received this year) to participate in the Official Competition. puntoyrayafestival.com zkm.de Thanks KinoManual (Maciej Bączyk & Aga Jarząb) for the motion graphics! kinomanual.pl "

Punto Y Raya Festival 2016 WHEN: OCTOBER 20th-23rd 2016 @ ZKM in KARLSRUHE, Germany. FREE ADMISSION until full capacity is reached. Punto y Raya Festival Logo The sixth edition of Punto y Raya Festival encompasses four intensive and wonderful days of pure Abstract Art in Motion, featuring: Official Competition (117 films from 33 countries) German Panorama curated by Robert Seidel, Dirk de Bruyn retrospective & Hong Kong Visual Music PyRformances by Dirk de Bruyn (AU), YRO (France) and Robert Lippok (DE) Installation by Larry Cuba (USA) Academy programme with masterclasses and retrospectives by Jodie Mack (USA), Max Hattler (DE·Hong Kong), Dirk de Bruyn (AU) & Holger Lang (Austria). puntoyrayafestival.com zkm.de Teaser created by KinoManual (Maciej Bączyk & Aga Jarząb) in Wrocław, Poland kinomanual.pl View Teaser: Press Release: The sixth edition of Punto y Raya Festival, dubbed “the most abstract in the world” in its nine-year trajectory, arrives at the place where Absol...

The artist Alexandra Grant (American, b.1973) is creating works that engage with words, in such a way that her works are a form of writing art. The meaning comes from words and the material of art is used to shape that meaning into art works. She is represented at Artsy.net and that are the basis of the shaping of the material Biography from artsy.net "Describing herself as “a writer who writes with materials,” Alexandra Grant produces paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations based on language. She is interested in how we engage with words, through reading, writing, speaking, and translation, and how it shapes our perception of others, the world, and ourselves. Her ongoing collaborations with philosophers, linguists, and actors, including Michael Joyce, Hélène Cixous, and Keanu Reeves, have earned her the designation, “radical collaborator.” Beginning with a text by or conversation with these collaborators, she transforms words into art. In her ongoing, multiface...

Press Release: CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE NEXT LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES IN PARIS IS OPEN UNTIL JULY 15, 2016 Among the main events in Europe dedicated to contemporary practices of moving image, the next Les Rencontres Internationales will be held in Paris in December 2016. Il offers every year a new international programme made of works by internationally renowned artists and filmmakers, along with works by young artists shown for the first time. FILM, VIDEO, MULTIMEDIA ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION can submit one or several works. The call for entries is open to cinema, video and multimedia works, without any restriction for length or genre. Any submission is free, regardless of geographical origins. Read more FILM AND VIDEO * Video / Experimental video * Fiction, exp. fiction / Short, middle and full length * Documentary, exp. documentary * Experimental film * Animation MULTIMEDIA * Video installation, multimedia installation * Multimedia concert, multime...

Addictive TV perform at SPLICE , London’s new and only audiovisual performing arts festival which runs from 3-5 June, 2016 " Addictive TV ’s line-up is founder Graham Daniels and mash-up guru Mark Vidler, aka Go Home Productions. The pair met in 2005, through EMI, working together on Mark’s album track Rapture Riders – remixing Blondie’s Rapture with The Doors Riders on the Storm. The album Mashed was released in 2007. Graham and Mark’s shared passion for film and music, plus their parallel journeys through VJ and mash-up DJ cultures, have brought the guys to where they are now; entertaining audiences and winning new fans by playing and making music their own way, audiovisually." [Source:  http://www.addictive.tv/biography ] Graham and Mark kindly agreed to an email interview, thank you very much guys for taking the time to answer rather long questions! The performing duo will be performing 3-5 June, 2016 at Splice - an exciting new performing arts festival. THE D...

Submit your abstract short films to the Punto Y Raya 2016 Call for Entries. The deadline is Sunday, July 31st 2016 (inclusive). http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/index.php Participation is free and submissions are made online. All techniques are welcome; just remember: only ABSTRACT (non-representational) imagery, the soundtrack cannot feature any articulated words, and the runtime should not exceed 8 minutes. Please take a look at the PARTICIPATION rules for more information. Here is the link to the teaser created by KinoManual (Maciej Bączyk and Aga Jarząb). http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/16_eligibility.php The sixth edition of Punto Y Raya will take place from October 20th through 23rd 2016 at ZKM [Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie] in Karlsruhe, Germany. As always, the festival will be hosting the Short Film Competition, other guest Screenings, Academy & Junior activities, and PyRformances (live cinema sessions MAD info@puntoyrayafestival.com www.puntoyrayaf...

SPLICE FESTIVAL, the UK’s only dedicated audiovisual performing arts festival will open in London this summer, 3rd - 5th June. The brand new festival brings together a host of incredible and diverse artists from around the globe for a three-day feast of live cinema , audio/video remixing and visual music from both established and emerging artists with performances, workshops, talks and networking events. Boasting a live AV performance by Cassetteboy as headline, the festival programme will also include a special DJ set by Plaid (Warp Records), a live AV remix set from Addictive TV , abstract visual electronica from Sculpture , bass heavy electro AV from Germany’s incite/ , video turntablism from Solid Steel’s DJ Cheeba , live cinema from The Light Surgeons , plus music from Mexico’s Incognito Traveller (BBE records) and a selection of artists and VJs from across Europe. Coldcut’s Matt Black (Ninja Tune), Cymatics expert Zach Walker and Leon Trimble host free workshops inc...

London based art pop project KYOTI have just released their debut music single ' Cave-in ' with accompanying video. Great to see the pop music world focus on working with art through moving images and art to accompany their music. The art of their music is as important as the music itself. Kyoti's website imagery is very striking too. http://thisiskyoti.com/ From Marietta "With support for the track already coming from Clash and Indie Shuffle, you can watch the nostalgic visuals here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0sVzdxJrkg&feature=youtu.be In keeping with KYOTI's distinctive imagery - focused on combining the surreal with the mundane, particularly around the power of monolithic architecture and sculpture - ‘Cave In’ features monochromatic archive footage characterised by a mesmerising motif of hands in an echo of the single’s artwork." Embedded Video - Cave-in

Growing literature in the field of Visual Music When I started to explore the topic of audio visual composition and started to use the term 'visual music' in 1999 to describe my own practice and research, there were very few books on the topic of Visual Music as such.  However, there is a very rich source of texts in Journals on particular areas of practice and related areas of research and the term visual music did come forth in these journals, but was not prominent.  I started to gather these articles as they were precious sources of information about other people's work and research and very exciting to learn about.  The term itself came to prominence with the publication of the catalogue 'Visual Music' for a major Visual Music Exhibition held in the US.  Now there is a growing literature in the field. Here are some recent and forthcoming publications. Recent and Forthcoming Publications Book Cover Description The Visual Music Film by Aimee Mo...