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Center for Visual Music - Call For Visual Music Works
The Center for Visual Music (CVM) has a call for visual music works.  CVM is a nonprofit film archive, has been dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media and also supports contemporary visual music work.  This call for works is looking to be shown on the CVM's social media, website and as part of their travelling program.  Call for Visual Music Works, 2024 - Center for Visual Music LINK The deadline for submitting work is the 30th November 2024. So do get your submissions in.   Press Release from CVM "As part of our anniversary celebrations, CVM is looking for submissions of a new short visual music work. A short film, a new work not released or screened elsewhere (including film festivals). The new film should be original; we are no…

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 instrumenta…

Larry Cuba - Extract from Film First Fig (1974)
Larry Cuba gave a master class at Punto Y Raya Festival in 2023, October 11.  It is now available to watch on the Punto Y Raya YouTube Channel.  In this master class he gives us an incredible archaeological dig (as he introduces his class) into the early days of computer graphics and how he made his computer animated graphic films.  Incredibly, he shows a short excerpt of one of his first computer graphic films made at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California in 1974. Excerpt of First Fig by Larry Cuba 1974