Visual Music

Preserving Visual Music - By Holly Willis - May 8, 2009 "After more than 70 years and the explosion of visual culture, the stunning animated films of Oskar Fischinger remain unparalleled. Fischinger, who emigrated to Los Angeles from Germany in 1936 and became one of the city's central figures in a burgeoning avant-garde filmmaking community, created dozens of dazzling visual explorations of sound... This question is tackled head-on by Cindy Keefer, Director of LA's Center for Visual Music, which is dedicated to this particular genre of experimental film... one of the Center's key objectives is preservation. In this context, CVM recently announced that it has received funds from the Avant-Garde Masters Grant (which is funded by The Film Foundation and …

PAST EVENT This is a past Visual Music event held in Queensland  Gallery of Modern Art in 2008.  The website documenting the Visual Music program screened is really useful as it provides an excellent overview of historical works in particular with a really useful list of their films, each filmmaker/artist is linked with a page overviewing their work and listing the films screened for the Visual Music program.  The website also provides information on the curators for the event - a really useful resource on Visual Music. (Author comment) Visual Music - 28 March – 1 June 2008  "The cinematic genre of Visual Music draws on elements of form, colour and rhythm in music and images to create visual symphonies. Working with abstraction and figuration, gesture, pitch, beat…

Richard Baily's incredible images and animations are in quicktime video format on the webstie Image Savant. The colours and forms that he has created are incredible. Richard provided animations for several hollywood films and sadly died in 2006. Many of his images can be seen on the http://www.imagesavant.com/ website. Link to page with video clips: http://www.imagesavant.com/QT.html The center for Visual Music provide an excellent memoriam to him and his work http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Baily.htm

ARTICLE: " On Curating Recent Abstract Visual Music " by Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer © Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer , 2006-08. Authored for The New York Digital Salon's Abstract Visual Music catalog and website. Slight revision, 2008.

Visual Music Exhibition - Hirshhorn Museum 2005 Documentation Website (great resource) http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/ The catalogue for the Visual Music Exhibition can be purchased at Amazon. This book is an excellent resource and introduction to Visual Music. Product Description from Amazon "The influence of music on the development of abstract and mixed-media visual art forms from the early twentieth century to the present day. This ground-breaking new book and the exhibition it accompanies trace the history of a revolutionary idea: that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. Over the past one hundred years some of the most adventurous modern and contemporary artists have explored unorthodox means to invent a kinetic, non-re…

Evening of Visual Music Films - May 1 2005 Los Angeles LA Filmforum and CVM ( Center for Visual Music ) presented "Visual Music Films" - from German pioneers to psychedelia to current day Visual Music. Presented in conjunction with the Visual Music show at MOCA. Program included: Light Rhythm s, Francis Bruguiere, 1930 Study No. 6 , Oskar Fischinger, 1930 Tanz der Farben (Dance of the Colors) , Hans Fischinger, 1939 Peyote Queen , Storm De Hirsch, 1965 Cibernetik 5.3 , John Stehura, 1960-65 Heavy Light , Adam Beckett, 1973 Cycles , Jordan Belson and Stephen Beck, 1975 Power Spot , Michael Scroggins, 1986 A Sense of Wonder , Devon Damonte, 1987 Passage , Bärbel Neubauer, 2002 Zygote and Xylo , Chris Casady, 2005 Helios , Mondi, 2005 Green Violet/Reflecto , G…