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Joseph Hyde - Vanishing Point Video - Audiovisual work
vanishing.point from Joseph Hyde on Vimeo . View the wonderful audiovisual work - Vanishing Point by Joseph Hyde. For a really informative account of the ideas explored in the work, visit his vimeo page for the video. http://www.vimeo.com/10216134 Joseph Hyde's website: http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/

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IQBIT - Electronic Music Composer - Collaboration with Visual Artists
Barcelona based IQBIT is an electronic composer from Rome based in Barcelona, Spain. IQBIT collaborates with Visual Artists, creating electronic music and sound for collaborative video and audio visual projects.  The works from these colloborations are both linked to research in synaesthesia but are also definitely are Visual Music.  Their visual music arises from a collaboration between music composers and visual artists, so the resulting video is a unity of the composition of visual and audio material.  Some of the videos are live sets - consisting of live audio and video. The words used to describe their works - sound video. Their live sets are described as Audio Visual Projects. Iqbit myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/iqbit Collaborations with xx+xy visuals …

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Composer - Ronan Guilfoyle - Rhythm Book/Essays
Being Irish of course, I am aware and familiar with contemporary music composition in Ireland.  I hope to make more posts about music composition or things musical that could be helpful for visual music or audio visual work. Ronan Guilfoyle is one of the prominent contemporary composers working in Ireland today, he is also a Acoustic Bass Guitarist and Educator. It has always been of interest to me that Visual Music has at its core a strong consideration for music composition or a musical thinking to composition. What is it that is being explored with visuals that is so musical - one of the more important elements is rhythm - how time is handled. Ronan has written some essays on the subject of rhythm in relation of course to music composition and jazz in particular. …

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Junk Box Fraud - Multimedia Performance - Ireland
Junk Box Fraud -is an incredible music composition by Irish Composer Donnacha Dennehy for cl, trb, 2 pf, 2 speakers, tape, video [video by Hugh Reynolds and Gerry O'Brien] This video in the vimeo excerpt was performed by Crash Ensemble, Natasha Lohan and Laura Moody at Shindig concert, SS Michael & John, Dublin, 13.10.07 with cameras by Mark Linnane and John Bates. See also:  http://www.crashensemble.com/ http://www.donnachadennehy.com The video was premiered by Crash Ensemble in the Samuel Beckett theatre in 1997, which I saw and credit with my crazy but exciting path into visual music... it was an incredible work and is one my favourite multimedia music compositions - visuals and music.  That particular performance was sheer magic. It was the sheer combinat…

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COMPOSER - Jim Aitchison - Visible Music
Visible Music Composing visions of sound by UK composer Jim Aitchison. "Jim Aitchison is a composer whose music derives from a range of sources, often from the world of the visual, re-imagining contemporary and past artworks as notations of sound. He makes music for chamber ensembles, orchestra and solo performers out of encounters with visual art and living artists, curators and galleries. The work is proposed both as a response to these encounters and as part of a wider engagement with fundamental musical and artistic issues." His responses to art/paintings in a musical context are quite extraordinary. The scores resemble the visual - as in the screenshot when you come to his website initially, here a painting entitled Elegy for Terry Frost by John Hyland …

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Experimental Music Film - Note Bank
"Many people were filmed in St Michael's church in Byker Newcastle, indidivudally, over the course of a day, playing single notes on various insruments to create a note bank that andy jackson the composer used to create the score that you see and hear. Most of the participants had no previous musical expereince. Antnhec, Anton hecht bought it all together, with Richard Lawson on camera. The work was produced by Mathew Lennon for Newcastle City Council as part of the Off-Centre project. The main body of people came from the community group Aspire"

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Yolande Harris - media artist and composer
Yolande Harris - media artist and composer. "Yolande is a composer and media-artist working with sound, image and space in a technologically extended environment. She proposes a radical notion of the musical score and uses technology in her work as the means through which to understand the electronically extended spaces we inhabit." (artist statement on website) website: http://www.yolandeharris.net Example Project highlighted here. http://www.yolandeharris.net/light_house.htm A Collection of Circles (or Pharology) Interactive Sound Installation at: CCNOA (Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) Earwitness Sound Art Series, Brussels January 2005 Light Phase performance for video, voice, sound and sensors: Video Dance Festival, International Film Festival …

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