Visual Music

Light Dreams: Visual Music by Vibeke Sorensen Date: Mon, 05/16/2011 - 8:00pm - 9:45pm Location: CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, Stanford University, USA Event Type: Concert "a retrospective of works by the renowned visual music artist and scholar Vibeke Sorensen. The concert will include a world premiere of Green Space, a new work in stereoscopic 3D." Website with more information: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/light-dreams-visual-music-vibeke-sorensen

CVM at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany May 11. For more information on this event, visit http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$7532 Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center for Visual Music Los Angeles, will discuss and screen work by pioneers of kinetic art and pre-digital cinema from CVM's archives... Keefer will screen work from CVM's archives including Dockum's “Mobilcolor Projections,” Bute's “Abstronics” (an early oscilloscope film), a short Bute documentary, the Fischinger “Lumigraph Film,” and more. She will discuss CVM's work with the Fischinger legacy, current preservation work, and “Raumlichtkunst,” the new restoration of his 1920s multiple-projector performances. Followed by the screening “Films Sacred …

VISUAL MUSIC PROGRAMME at 18th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, May 2011 presented a Visual Music supporting programme at the festival. http://www.itfs.de/en/ CVM (Center for Visual Music) presented two historical programs of abstract animated films by Oskar Fischinger, including preserved prints and rarely-screened films. Title of Program: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective , May 7, 2011 Cornelia and Holger Lund presented contemporary visual music Title of Programme: Visual Music: Contemporary , May 8, 2011. A programme was put together on Norman McLaren Title of Programme: The animator as musician , May 6, 2011 See: http://www.itfs.de/en/programmes/supporting-programme/visual-music.h…

Event - The New Flesh - May 12, 2011 - Toronto, Canada. "Experiments in audio video performance exceeding all reason! avant garde video in the omega age" Thursday May 12, 2011 The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON, M6R 2M9. Details and updates available on the facebook event page here. "The New Flesh Experiments in audio video performance exceeding all reason! Avant garde video in the omega age. Featuring Performances by: Botborg (Germany / Australia) Nohista (France) Rybn (France) Rko (France) Skeeter (Canada) Mandelbrut (Canada) The Nod (Canada) Tasman Richardson (Canada)" Website: http://www.tasmanrichardson.com/

CCRMA - An Evening of Visual Music with Dennis Miller [CCRMA = Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, US] A concert of visual music works presented by Dennis Miller at Stanford University - 5th May, 2011 An Evening of Visual Music with Dennis Miller Date: Tue, 05/03/2011 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, Stanford University Event Type: Concert "Dennis Miller, a visual music artist and scholar curates an evening of selections from Northeastern’s Visual Music Special Collection. Come to see works by: Stephanie Maxwell , Vishal Shah/Adam Stansbie , Harvey Goldman/ James Bohn , Jim Ellis/Aksak Maboul , Damir Cucic/Erich Maria Strom, Betsy Kopmar/ The Headroom Project (Andreas Ecker), Bret Battey , …

CAMP Festival - Festival for Visual Music - June 2011 CAMP 2011 international festival for klangkunst and visual arts performances june 11 and 12 at 9 pm / pogon, Zagreb symposium visual music, lectures, rehearsals: june 6 - 9 at 10am - 10pm, free access CAMP festival party june 11 starts at midnight "The CAMP Festival was founded in 1999 by Prof. Fried Dähn and Thomas Maos. Since 2003, it has been organized and run and coordinated by CAMP e.V. (Thomas Maos, Fried Dähn, Stefan Hartmaier, and Martin Mangold) . The festival in Zagreb is a cooperation between CAMP e.V. Kirchentellinsfurt and KONTEJNER Zagreb, Croatia. Concept " Developement of new forms of audiovisual art. Research. Cooperation and communication. Intercultural and intermedial excha…

USC School of Cinematic Arts Event - Rhythms and Visions: Expanded and Live! The USC School of Cinematic Arts and Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative invite you to experience a live visual music sensation on Friday, April 22nd! "The School of Cinematic Arts Complex will be taken over and transformed by Rhythms and Visions: Expanded and Live! a spectacular outdoor live-cinema event merging animation and visual media with live acoustic and electronic music. Exciting and innovative UK audio-visual collective D-Fuse and Los Angeles artist Scott Pagano will perform to music by notable musicians Brian King, Trifonic, Brian LeBarton and MB Gordy. These cutting-edge performances will span animation, experimental documentary and abstract …

S E N S O R I U M was a weeklong festival of new music from Irish and international artists featuring workshops, talks and a series of concerts. It included everything from electro-acoustic works and audio visual displays to improvisation, performance art and contemporary dance. The goal of Sensorium "is to show co-creative musical works in a structured curation intended to stimulate multiple senses and challenge the audience’s attention through changing aesthetics and perceptions". see: http://www.projectartscentre.ie/programme/whats-on/1191-sensorium for the programme for the week Sensorium was curated by Judith Ring , Angie Atmadjaja and Emily Kalies I attended the Sensorium 1 night on friday, March 11th and really enjoyed the variety of works tha…

October 13, 14, 15, 18, 21 - 2010 A rich array of visual music events featuring film, concert, lecture and live performances of Jean Detheux's visual music works. Jeans visual music works are quite incredible. Jean Detheux's Visual Music in Montréal Visit: http://visualmusic.ning.com/events/event/listUserEvents?user=JeanD2 for more information Have just viewed Jeans visual music visuals for Phrygian Gates (excerpt) Music - John Adams, piano Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven- simply stunning view excerpt online at: http://www.vudici.net/movies/Transe_Demo/Phrygian_Gates_Demo_en.html

A very interesting workshop on visual music took place July 19 - July 23 2010 at Eyebeam, New York. Summer School Masterclass: Visual Music Collaborative Visual Music Collaborative Workshop - July 2010, New York http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/workshop It was "led by Eyebeam Fellow Aaron Meyers , in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International ...Up to 11 participants will be invited to explore the relationship between music, sound, and dynamically generated imagery and motion. Topics will include sound-analysis techniques, advanced OpenGL programming, and interfacing with mobile control devices. Guest speakers and musicians provide additional insight. The master class culminates in an event where …

"Call for Entries 2010 The avant-garde-artists of the “Absolute Film” movement worked on visionary film experiments. They created visual symphonies from animated images which they composed on film according to their perception as artists. These were called “paintings in time”, ”visual music”, “symphonies of light and sound”, “cinematic paintings”, “color light music” or “space light art”. Target Groups: The “Visual Music Award 2010” is again an international call for proposals addressing young talents. Invited for participation are young independent creative artists and designers as well as students for example in the disciplines of new media art, experimental film and music video and allied disciplines. In the year 2010, for the second time, we invite …

Chiaki Watanabe is performing new live audio visual performances and installations in May, June 2010 at several visual music and audio visual events in Copenhagan, Denmark and Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany. "Chiaki Watanabe is a visual artist/designer based in Copenhagen, and New York. She creates abstract visual music works in various forms: video, live video performance and installation. Her work explores cross-sensory experience in a minimalist framework by integrating sound and visual imagery. Known for “hardcore-abstract” visuals. Her interest lies in visual phenomena within music and music within visual phenomena – visual music in physical space - psychophysical effects of visual music - how visual music stimulates the senses."(US/JP/DK) Bio at: ht…

{R}ake A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video Event: Thurs April 22 - 8pm Issue Project Room in The Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street (corner 3rd Avenue) 3rd Floor Park Slope, Brooklyn 718 330-0313 This Month's A/V: Set 1 - Giles Hendrix - Video Set 1 - Richard Lainhart - Music Set 2 - Kamran Sadeghi - A/V Set 3 - Bradford Reed - Music Set 3 - Ursula Scherrer - Video This Month's Message: {R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways. Link for more information on this event More Info:…

Experimental Electronic Music and Visual Arts Festival/ 21-24.04.2010/ La Farinera del Clot Barcelona "The fifth annual festival of experimental electronic music and visual arts organized by the platform Störung will start next Wednesday 21st of April offering us, during four days, the performances of outstanding national and international artists of the electronic and experimental scene./ Störung Festival 5.0 features, besides the performances of the invited artists, a cycle of conferences, a permanent screening of audiovisual works in the exhibition room, and a thematic day on Friday 23rd of April titled 'Hydrophonia', dedicated exclusively to subaquatic sounds./ With this program the festival wants to offer the audience the chance of getting to k…

The OpenEnded Group: Upending - World Premiere A stereoscopic theater performance, which will premiere at EMPAC on March 26,2010 "Upending, a work commissioned by EMPAC and appearing here in its world premiere, is a revelatory stereoscopic theater performance, an actor–less drama of disorientation and reorientation that compels us to rethink our relationship with the material world. Using ordinary flat photographs and processing them with non-photorealistic rendering and stereoscopic HD video, Upending transfigures familiar objects, spaces, and persons in ways that are both beautiful and uncanny. " http://openendedgroup.com/index.php/in-progress/upend/ EMPAC @ Rensselaer 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 518.276.3921 http://www.empac.rpi.edu/ http://www.empac.rp…

A unique event encompassing film,artworks, music, live performance and interactive experiences in showcasing the world of *visual music. *Items included range from pioneering work in the field to new pieces created for the evening, from cutting-edge to humorous interpretation and from international prize winning items to local endeavour. "What does music look like? This is the question that Colchester music lecturer Julia Orpen is attempting to answer at The Headgate Theatre on Sunday 6th December. The event, entitled “ Sound and Image ” is part film show, part art show, part concert and is the result of eighteen months personal investigation that has led to both local and global collaboration. Sub-titled ‘ The World of Visual Music ’, the series of short films …