Visual Music

Louis M. Brill’s "Lumia projections are very special if presented in a very slow undulating movement as the light forms unfold, shape shifting from one sensuous image to another. Often to extend the visual presence of animated Lumia a musical track accompanies the Lumia motion which is no different than adding a musical score to a film. When music is played with a Lumia composition, it adds a narrative, emotional and dynamic presence to the abstract moving light as the mind attempts to synchronize the sound and visuals being presented.” [Source: You can view examples of Louis M. Brill’s lumia projections on vimeo now. Earlier I wrote a post about Louis’s blog Sacred Lumia at https://sacredlumia.wordpress.com/ where he posted a very useful article on visual music. You can visit that post here . In this blog,  Sacred Lumia , he has explored the process of Lumia and how it fits into the world of art, cinema and culture as a visual medium of appreciation Sacred Lumia Blog https://s...

There are a number of David Hockney exhibitions taking place soon. The  Metropolitan Museum of Art  is scheduled to exhibit  David Hockney , which showcases the artist. Hockney will also be featured in the upcoming exhibition  David Hockney: 82 Portraits and a Still Life  at the  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao . For more information, such as bio, works, articles and exhibition listings on David Hockney, visit: https://www.artsy.net/artist/david-hockney

The University of Greenwich, London is looking for submissions for the forthcoming Colloquium to take place 10-12 November 2017 Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts – the event will bring together artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena. They are seeking papers and compositions which explore the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. CALL FOR WORKS: Paper Submissions Audiovisual (Fixed Media) Compositions Acousmatic Works Audiovisual Live Performances The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2017. Further details of the call can be found in the attached document and on the conference website: http://www.gre.ac.uk/ach/events/soundimage For any queries please write to: Sound-Image@greenwich.ac.uk

MuVi5: International exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music Palacio Abacial y Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain 18-22th May 2018 Alcalá la Real (Jaén), Spain Abstract registration deadline: September 30, 2017 Submission deadline: September 30, 2017 Call for Works MuVi5 invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of kinetic works to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. Visual Music exhibition is part of the Sixth International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science & Art", to be held from the 18th to the 22th of May 2018, Palacio Abacial y Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain). The topic of the exhibition is visual music and synesthesia. For “visual music”, we intend every representation to be only visual or audiovisual, suggested by the music. The correspondences between the visual and music can be the results of sy...

A most interesting and exciting project conceived by Luca De Rosso. AVO is a audiovisual performance work that explores live human-computer collaboration. It is a project that is at its early stages but it has already been documented immacutely by De Rosso. He is also very generously providing his software as open source for anyone who would like to also try it for their own audiovisual work. De Rosso is open to bookings for the performance of this work, which you can make an enquiry about online via a form on his website. Documentation of AVO - Luca De Rosso AV0 is an exploration on human-computer collaboration in the audio visual field, dedicated to those believing in computers as partners in the creative flow. "In the computer-aided creative process, whether it’s wireframing a design, programming or producing music – our actions often generates unpredicted results. I began to appreciate and consume these instances not as undesired output but as computer input in my creative...

Urban Projections performs at Splice Festival - the UK’s only dedicated audiovisual performing arts festival which runs from 26-28 May 2017. http://www.splicefestival.com/ Rebecca Smith (aka Urban Projections) is creating some fabulous work for various settings, and the work is full of creativity, innovation and ingenuity and really worth checking out further and if you are in London do go see her performance at the Splice Festival. Rebecca kindly took time out of her preparations for her performance at the forthcoming Splice Festival to answer a few questions about her work and forthcoming performance. I am very happy that she answered some questions and for me to now present her answers to the readers of this visual music blog and to get the opportunity for Rebecca herself to give us a fantastic snapshot of Urban Proection's work. Q. Hi Rebecca, your work with visual projections in different settings is very exciting, can you introduce yourself briefly to the visual music aud...

The worldwide talented and creative audio visual performing artists and musicians of our times are presenting to audiiences in London from 26-28 May 2017 for the SPlCE FESTIVAL SPLICE is in its second year and is the only festival for AudioVisual (AV) arts in the UK. It’s an amazing live line-up boasting top AV acts from across the globe, (headliners include Coldcut, Mira Calix, Filastine, DJ Food, Zan Lyons, J:Kenzo, EBN, Urban Projections, Mius, Optika, Adam Smith (talk) and workshop with Resolute), taking place from 26-28 May 2017. Splice Festival 2017 Press Release: Splice Festival is back for its second edition, taking place over the bank holiday weekend 26th - 28th May 2017 at East London’s multi-arts centres Rich Mix , Red Gallery and Kamio . Part of the EU funded AV Node network, Splice brings together over 40 international artists to celebrate the diverse field of audiovisual performance , including live cinema , AV remixing , VJing , video art and projection mapping...

" Cluste r is an immersive audiovisual site-specific installation that explores relationships between space, time and perception. Geometric schematization of architecture using light instruments transforms the space into a container for the abstract language of light and sound.” Cluster - Playmodes Documentation Playmodes have provided extensive documentation and videos about their Cluster project on their website at: http://playmodes.com/web/cluster-mira/ They use their own software created by Playmodes and integrate this with a hardware system to transform architectural spaces into audiovisual experiences. "The audiovisual discourse generated in real time using software created by Playmodes, researches the possibilities of formal clusters of oscillators applied to the control of light, sound and atonality to the limits of synaesthetic perception.” Please visit their website to investigate this exciting project utilising light and sound to create art experiences for architec...

Sacred Lumia Gallery by Louie M. Brill Louis M.Brill is a lumia artist who works from his Lumia art studio in San Francisco, US. He also writes a blog named, Sacred Lumia , here he explores "the processes of Lumia and how it fits into the world of art, cinema and culture as a visual medium of appreciation”. This is a really great resource for artists and scholars interested in the practice and context of lumia art. Louis embraces “the light as the paintbrush and canvas to present Lumia art as a very evocative and nattarive visual presence.” An important part of his practice is that lumia can be controlled through directed artistic intensions and I think this is a very commendable point. WIth the advent of technologies that can do the art for you, there is still the important consideration of artistic intention and from this stand point creating a work that works with light. Louis is open to comments and discussion on his blog, so please do drop by and join in the conversation...