Visual Music

Nine Lyrae Productions in collaboration with Brunel University London in celebration of the 2023 Artist in Residence. UK Synaesthesia Association and @journeythroughthesenses present an International Synaesthesia Art Exhibition titled - A Taste of Synaesthesia.  Immerse yourself in a world of digital art, video projections, discussions, and live performances—all set against a synesthetic backdrop.  https://www.ninelyraeproductions.com/   "In this showcase, over 20 international artists will unveil their synesthetic experiences through a variety of art forms. Join us to rediscover the world through a different lens and savour just a Taste of Synaesthesia." WHEN:  Friday 27th October, 2023  WHERE:  Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House St, London SE1 9PH, hello@ninely…

TWO EVENTS to make the occasion of the launch of the book publication: Live Visuals Live Visuals Book Launch , November 5th, 2022, BFI, London -  Live Visuals Book Launch After Party , - Live Audio-Visual Performances, November 6th, 2922 Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street Corner), SE1 7LG LIVE VISUALS BOOK LAUNCH The Live Visuals book launch will be held in the BFI, Southbank London on the 5th November, 2022 from 13:00 to 19:00 pm.  The book launch celebrates the launch of Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, edited by Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman and Atau Tanaka, which was recently published by Routledge - https://routledge.pub/Live-Visuals Live Visuals - BOOK LAUCH Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals…

SECOND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "THE ART OF SOUND AND LIGHT", SAINT PETERSBURG, took place from OCTOBER 18–20, 2021. The conference was online this year.  The conference was organised and hosted by: The Department of Organology inside the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, the Foundation for support of the audiovisual and technological art “Prometheus” (Foundation “Galeev-Prometheus”) and Sergey Zorin’s Optical Theater.  https://artcenter.ru/en/second-international-scientific-and-practical-conference-the-art-of-sound-and-light/   The three day event was co-ordinated by Olga Viktorovna Kolganova — Department of Organology Scientific Research Scientist, Russian Institute for the History of Art (St. Petersburg). The organis…

http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium/CFP.html PRESS RELEASE from CVM: CFP: CVM Symposium 2018 Exploring and Preserving Visual Music In association with Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California August 14-16, 2018 Deadline for submissions: March 23, 2017 Website:  http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium/CFP.html Center for Visual Music ( CVM ) is pleased to announce its call for paper submissions for a Symposium on Visual Music, August 14-16, 2018, in association with Sonoma State University. The symposium will explore the theories, histories, and practices of visual music. It features two days of keynote talks and presentations from international scholars, artists, curators and students, plus a final half day of special…

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 Rebec…

Addictive TV perform at SPLICE , London’s new and only audiovisual performing arts festival which runs from 3-5 June, 2016 " Addictive TV ’s line-up is founder Graham Daniels and mash-up guru Mark Vidler, aka Go Home Productions. The pair met in 2005, through EMI, working together on Mark’s album track Rapture Riders – remixing Blondie’s Rapture with The Doors Riders on the Storm. The album Mashed was released in 2007. Graham and Mark’s shared passion for film and music, plus their parallel journeys through VJ and mash-up DJ cultures, have brought the guys to where they are now; entertaining audiences and winning new fans by playing and making music their own way, audiovisually." [Source:  http://www.addictive.tv/biography ] Graham and Mark kindly a…

SPLICE FESTIVAL, the UK’s only dedicated audiovisual performing arts festival will open in London this summer, 3rd - 5th June. The brand new festival brings together a host of incredible and diverse artists from around the globe for a three-day feast of live cinema , audio/video remixing and visual music from both established and emerging artists with performances, workshops, talks and networking events. Boasting a live AV performance by Cassetteboy as headline, the festival programme will also include a special DJ set by Plaid (Warp Records), a live AV remix set from Addictive TV , abstract visual electronica from Sculpture , bass heavy electro AV from Germany’s incite/ , video turntablism from Solid Steel’s DJ Cheeba , live cinema from The Light Surgeons , pl…

KIMA - music like you’ve never seen before Evolution of Motion, Sound, Geometry and Colour by Analema Group and the Union Chapel Organ Project With Special Guests: Claire M Singer - Organ Joby Burgess – Percussion (Powerplant) Estela Merlos - Dance Laura Moody – Cello (Elysian Quartet) Robert Ames- Viola (LCO) Emily Burn – Voice (Voice) Date of performance: 22 March 2015 – 20.00 pm, doors 19.00 pm Place: Union Chapel, Compton Terrace N1 2UN, London Booking: Tickets: £10/£7 conc. + advanced booking fee via http://www.unionchapel.org.uk Programme (with 2 intervals) MARE UNDARUM AXIS MUNDI AURORA Music for your eyes and ears. Based on a natural phenomena, brought to life using leading technology - KIMA paints music in light on the incred…

Title: videomusic concert Date: 15th February, 2015 Organisers: CEC, Dias de Música Electroacústica festival, Curation Joseph Hyde. The CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community) has programmed three concerts in the 21st edition of the Dias de Música Electroacústica festival () in Seia, Portugal, from 13–15 February, 2015. The videomusic concert which is one of the three concerts programmed by CEC for this festival is curated by Joseph Hyde and consists of recent videomusic works. This concert will take place on the 15th February, 2015. See facebook page:  http://facebook.com/564944106975362 This videomusic works concert is also a followup to the publication in the April 2014 issue of eContact! 15.4. — Videomusic: Overview of an Emerging Art Form / Vidé…

Capital Irish Film Festival: Music and Multimedia Concert - Washington DC A  music and multimedia concert curated by composer Sarah O'Halloran as part of the Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF) showcases a selection of fixed-media works featuring original music and original moving images by mainly Ireland based composers and moving image artists. "Enjoy opera with animation, Irish dance with sound art, and abstract video art with ambient electronics then vote for your favorite piece. The makers of the Audience Choice work will win a $1500 prize." Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015 from 5.00 to 6.30pm at the Goethe Institut, Wachington DC, US. See website for more information and for booking details: http://www.solasnua.org/calendar/music-and-mul…

" Visual hearings, a synesthetic experience " is an online international group exhibition curated by Enrique Salmoiraghi. The online exhibition is based in Argentina. It will be online from July 2014 to October 2014. The exhibition consists of visual music works and in particular audio-visuals experiments in reactivity. For more information visit the online exhibition at: http://www.espaciobyte.org/espaciobyte.php?cat=108

UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT), Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles), and Corwin Chair, UCSB Department of Music, present  Exploring Visual Music - A special one day Symposium November 16, 2013 University of California, Santa Barbara 11 am, CSNI, Elings Hall, Lab 2611 "To further the development of new modes and technologies for representation and creation in the field of Visual Music, MAT, CVM and Corwin Chair present a one-day symposium investigating the aesthetics, techniques and histories of visual music. The event at UCSB includes a series of 20 minute talks by invited presenters, plus short screenings of historical and contemporary visual music films. Presenters include Clarence Barlow, Cindy Keefer, Jack Ox, Casey Mongoven, and special gue…

Vibeke Sorensen's Visual Music Installation, Illuminations is being presented as part of the ART section of the 3-D Festival Beyond at Karlsruhe, Germany from 03 October to 06 October, 2013. The installation was also held at the International Visual Music Symposium of the Center for Asian Art & Design, (CAAD) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, October 12 - 14, 2012.  I attended the installation in Singapore, and it quite stunning.  The screens are presented at angles in a darkened room and the imagery is luminous and colourful.  The interaction between the imagery on each screen is analagous to a visual music. Illuminations Installation Description on the Festival Website "ILLUMINATIONS is a real-time computer generated visual musi…

Press Release from the Punto Y Riya Festival and CALL FOR WORKS As you probably know,  Punto y Raya  &  Reykjavík Center for Visual Music  have joined to produce the greatest event in the history of abstract visual music and live cinema: the  Reykjavík Visual Music  -  Punto y Raya Festival 2014 , which will take place  from  January 30 th to  February 2 nd   2014  at  HARPA  Concert Hall (Iceland).  The deadline for the  CALLS FOR ENTRIES  is  October 28th 2013 , and it's approaching fast! There is no entry fee and the films & live set demos are submitted online through our website.  www.puntoyrayafestival.com ::   SHORT FILM  CALL FOR ENTRIES Open to abstract films experimenting with  dots & lines  and avoiding representation.  All techniques are welc…