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...