Video Resources

I am in the process of building this page, I intend to link to useful video resources, playlists and archives

Center for Visual Music Archive, Library and Gallery

The center for visual music has put an archive online - the Center for Visual Music Patreon Channel that consists of digital copies of original and rare documents and many documents and video clips of films and interviews and other such resources that are of relevance and important for the study and dissemination of a visual music history via the Vimeo Patreon service. Become a patron to access this archive, one can choose a number of membership options: fan, artist/researcher, associate curator. There are video clips and interviews with many artists from the history of visual music.

Center for Visual Music Patreon Vimeo Channel

The archive is regularly updated with new material added as the archive grows in time. However, if you are like me, it is an archive you would like to come back to and view works and documents again and again. That it is regularly updated is a bonus.

Recent additions as of 16 April 2020 are:

New:
John Stehura, Cibernetik 5.3 (1960-65), one of the first computer films
1920 Vanity Fair article about Thomas Wilfred, plus rare ephemera
William Moritz on Mary Ellen Bute and the Abstract Film (Video Interview)
Commercials by Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson
Barry Spinello, Soundtrack
Light show material and video, from the Glenn McKay Archive at CVM
Animation drawings by Oskar Fischinger for the film Kreise
Scroll painting by Jordan Belson
Accident by Jules Engel
Installation shots from CVM's Oskar Fischinger exhibition in Amsterdam
Movement diagrams by James Whitney, for the film Yantra
Muntz TV commercial by Oskar Fischinger
Interview with Elfriede Fischinger (Oskar's widow), Video
Audio interview with Cecile Starr
Len Lye, Is Film Art? [source: link]

Center for Visual Music Patreon Channel:
https://www.patreon.com/CenterforVisualMusic

Visual Music Playlist - youtube - Maura McDonnell

A youtube playlist compiled by blog author and presented here in an embedded player for convenience. This playlist is based on the authors encountering of works on youtube and acts mainly as a reminder to come back to these works to view again.

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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