Posts

Circle of Light - Moscow International Light and Multimedia Festival
The 4th Moscow international light and multimedia festival «Circle of Light» will be held from 11th to 14th October, 2014 in Moscow, Russia. The festival will include a selection of works from the international call for works for the International Projection Mapping Art Vision Contest. The theme of the competition is "Light around the world". The Contest of 2014 will be held in three different locations that will be divided according to the general idea of projections shown: VDNH Pavilion 1 Art Vision Classic http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/classic/ VDNH Pavilion 12 Art Vision Modern http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/modern/ VDNH Pavilion 32 + Full scale model of Rocket Art Vision VJing Battle http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision…

Day 2 - Reykjavik/PuntoyRaya Visual Music Festival -
Day 2 of PuntoyRaya and Reykjavik Visual Music Festival happening today - January 31st, 2014 Visit:  http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/schedule/friday#ag for more information Join their facebook page for stunning photographs from the opening night of the festival January 30th 2014 and some stunning live cinema/ audiovisual photographs from this event. https://www.facebook.com/rvmfestival

SoundImageSound 10 - Call for intemedia and visual music composition works
SoundImageSound 10 ~ Festival of New Music and Visual Image January 30/31, 2014 Conservatory of Music ~ University of the Pacific ~ Stockton, California Call for Works: This year SoundImageSound celebrates its tenth season with presentations of works by artists who bridge sound and visual image in the creation of compositions sometimes referred to as visual music or intermedia. The festival again hosts an open submission process for new works by artists from around the globe. In honor of its tenth season, SoundImageSound welcomes guest artist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski to the festival. Composer, performer, and intermedia artist, Kapuscinski is on the faculty of Stanford University where he directs the Intermedia Lab at CCRMA. During the festival he will speak abo…

Exhibition - Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia
Exhibition Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia at Raven Row, London Exhibition tour with Lars Bang Larsen Thursday 31 October, 6.30pm Lars Bang Larsen will lead a tour of the exhibition Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia in conversation with Alex Sainsbury. This event is free but booking is essential as space is very limited. Please email info@ravenrow.org to reserve a place. Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia Exhibition continues until 15 December 2013 To many artists in the sixties who referred to the counterculture, or who used hallucinogenic drugs as an artistic tool, the term ‘psychedelic’ was seen as compromised and the idea of a ‘psychedelic art’ resisted. It is for this r…

Vibeke Sorensen's Visual Music Installation | Beyond 3D Festival ZKMKarlsruhe
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…

Talk in ATRL, Trinity College, Dublin - Preserving Visual Music: The Archives of Center for Visual Music
Image( c) Center for Visual Music. Kreise (Circles), 1933-34 by Oskar Fischinger LECTURE  Preserving Visual Music: The Archives of Center for Visual Music Next Wednesday (October 2nd, 2013 at 1.00 pm in the ATRL ( ATRL.ie ), Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Cindy Keefer, the director of the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles, will be discussing and screening selections from the CVM archive. For those interested in visual music, abstract cinema, expanded cinema, experimental film, this is a must hear and see talk and a great opportunity to hear about the preservation and archiving work of the CVM and an opportunity to meet its director in person. Keefer has co-edited a recently published book on Oskar Fischinger, Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cin…

Fractal - Synthesis Screening Events
Fractal is a contemporary music production company set up by Anna Murray and Philip Lawson. It aims to create new contexts for contemporary music through informal settings and collaboration with other media. We are dedicated to new Irish music, programming full concerts of works by Irish composers, including specially commissioned music. Fractal have put on a number of music concert events that included a visual element, some of these have been in a music performance setting, where visual artists worked on creating visuals for existing music compositions (or did both for the case of a music composer creating their own visuals).   Their first concert was for the Dublin Culture Night in 2012, this concert also toured Dublin, Mayo and Cork. Visit  https://ww…

Tate Modern - Found: new restorations and discoveries from Center for Visual Music
Found: new restorations and discoveries from Center for Visual Music Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Thursday 26 September 2013, 19.00 – 21.00 £5, concessions available. "This selection explores lost, legendary and rare treasures found in the archives of Center for Visual Music (CVM). Featuring rare works by Jordan Belson, including two unreleased films, the unfinishedQuartet and the premiere of the restoration of the infamous LSD, plus a reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex Concerts (1957–9), and the rarely screened Bopscotch...The programme, featuring many new preserved 16 mm and 35 mm prints, is introduced by archivist/curator Cindy Keefer of CVM." Visit Tate Modern web page for more information www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern…

Seeing Sound Symposium - OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
Seeing Sound 3 is now open for submissions - call for works, and papers and in particular live performance works.   DEADLINE for submissions is 27th SEPTEMBE R.  Symposium takes place on 23/24 November, 2013 at Bath Spa University. Practice-Led Research Symposium, Bath Spa University "Seeing Sound is an informal practice-led symposium exploring multimedia work which foregrounds the relationship between sound and image." "It explores areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, audiovisual performance and installation practice through paper sessions, screenings, performances and installations." "This year’s event will have a focus on live performance, but as in previous years, Seeing Sound will also be open …

I Hear a New World Exhibition, 2013
The 'I Hear a New World' Visual Music Exhibition ends on the 31st August, 2013 Visit: http://ihearanewworldexhibition.blogspot.ie/ for more details of the visual music works being exhibited at the Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland http://ihearanewworldexhibition.blogspot.ie/ "I Hear A New World is a dynamic Visual Music exhibition taking place in Athlone's Luan Gallery from July 11th - August 31st 2013. It features work by leading Irish and international artists, composers and film makers and offers gallery-goers a unique opportunity to immerse themselves within this exciting and innovative art form. I Hear A New World is curated by artists Mike Glennon and Anthony Wigglesworth" Both Mike and Anthony are talented composers/…

Lumigraph Performance by Barbara Fischinger
Important Exhibition on the Works of Oskar Fischinger  co-organized by the Center for Visual Music Source Link 16th December, 2012, 14.00pm Two Events Performance by Barbara Fischinger , on Oskar Fischinger's Lumigraph Oskar Fischinger Retrospective - Program Two : Rare Works - Screening of Rare Works by Oskar Fischinger (60 min) EYE Film Institute , Amsterdam A very special event, a rarely performed: Lumigraph performance by Barbara Fischinger, assisted by Cindy Keefer at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, before a screening of Oskar Fischinger's rarely seen works, Retrospective - Program Two: Rare Works (compilation ) More information about the Lumigraph Performance http://eyefilm.nl/sites/default/files/Dancing%20With%20Your%20Hands.pdf M…

Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst
Source: Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst, CVM page Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst , a new recreation by the Center for Visual Music of Oskar Fischinger's 1920s multiple-projector performance is installed in a number of museums. It is installed in Tate Modern, London on the 5th Floor, Collection Displays until 17th May 2013 - so if you get a chance do go and see. Tate Modern , London, through May 17, 2013, 5th Floor, Collection Displays I have seen this installation in Tate Modern and was lucky to be at its opening.  The interplay of Fischinger's visuals across the three screens is a real visual music feast.  The quality of the images were really beautiful as well as the presentation and very large scale installation.  The installation has it…

OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT
OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT JUNE 28–OCTOBER 28, 2012 Whitney Museum, Los Angeles "This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made—Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a recreation of his multiple-screen film events first shown in Germany in 1926, recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in its format, its multiple screens of abstract shapes, color, and light produced an experience that, in Fischinger’s own description of his work, created “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.” Source and for more information visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OskarFischinger Visit Center for Visual Music (CVM) events page for more visual music exhibitio…

Colour Music Recollections - Sonic Acts, 2012
As part of the Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time Festival,  a programme on Colour Music is being shown on 24th February, 2012 Colour Music Recollections De Balie Friday 24 February 17:00 - 18:30 "A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles Dockum on his ‘Mobilcolor’ instrument, the first recreation of Oskar Fischinger‘s multi-projector shows and a rare screening of documentation of the 1968 recreation by Kurt Schwerdtfeger of the very first light experiments at the Bauhaus. This programme will mark the launch of the posthumous publication of the book The Academy of the Senses, Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education by Frans …

SPECTRAL - CTM Festival 2012
CTM.12 – SPECTRAL "// 30 January – 5 February 2012 // Various venues, Berlin With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January to 5 February 2012 . As always, CTM runs parallel to and in cooperation with Berlin’s festival for art and digital culture, transmediale, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskir…

Tony Brooks Towards New Multisensory Spaces and Environments
Four Senses Concert, 2002 This important concert that took place in 2002 in the Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand.  The four senses concert were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks (UK). website:  link "The ‘Four Senses’ 1999, 2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences. The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of b…

Silk Chroma - Honouring Prize - Visual Music Award
Silk Chroma a visual music piece that I created in collaboration with the Irish Composer Linda Buckley and closely worked also with Dermot Furlong and Gavin Kearney at the end of 2010 has won an honouring prize at the forthcoming Visual Music Award 2011. I am totally delighted!   Visit website - Visual Music Award 2011 Visual Music Award @ Cocoon Club, Frankfurt Germany Photographs of the event have been put up by the organisers on their facebook page. Some photographs of Silk Chroma have been put on this page...what a stunning venue the Cocoon Club. Visual Music Award Facebook Page -  https://www.facebook.com/VisualMusicAward Silk Chroma can be seen on vimeo Silk Chroma from Silk Chroma on Vimeo . Silk Chroma - the silent version is also sh…

Expanded Abstraction: CVM Program, Los Angeles
Opening late July,2011, Los Angeles: Expanded Abstraction : A special 3-screen program from CVM featuring Scott Draves' Generation 244, plus work by Robert Seidel, Baerbel Neubauer, Christina McPhee, Maura McDonnell and Charles Dockum. Curated by Cindy Keefer. LA County Museum of Art, central plaza, Stark Bar. On view beginning July 28, evenings through January, 2012. Images courtesy Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep. PREVIEW of McPhee's Bird of Paradise video triptych. (re posted from CVM events page: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm OPENING NIGHT - Thursday, July 28 Please join CVM at LACMA at Stark Bar - Thursday, July 28 CVM's new *Expanded Abstraction* 3-screen program begins in LACMA's Stark Bar (central plaza, next to …

Oskar Fischinger Painting Exhibition - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) Major Painting Exhibition at the Peyton Wright Gallery - Santa Fe, New Mexico Opening July 2011 Oskar Fischinger - Layers of Sound Oskar Fischinger's paintings are being exhibited at the art dealers gallery - Peyton Wright Gallery.  These paintings are a real treat to view.  Peyton Wright Gallery have put many of Oskar Fischinger's paintings online, many of these have probably not been seen before, as they have not been put online before. Some of these paintings have strong musical themes.  There are several that I really like and a beautiful one for me is, Layers of Sound.  However, there are many others and Fischinger's very distinct artistic and aesthetic style is really apparent.  A great treat to be able to view th…

Understanding Visual Music 2011 - Conference - Call for Works
Call for works Understanding VISUAL Music 2011 Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies in collaboration with the Department of Music CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Montreal - Canada August 26th and 27th, 2011 Website for more information: http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca/index.html INFORMATION ABOUT CALL FOR WORK AND SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE WORKS *_DESCRIPTION_* A two-day conference focused on developing an understanding of the practice of visual music, its definition, related creative and perceptual considerations, current trends, technological innovation, and possible future directions. The event will take place on *Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th of August 2011* and will include paper sessions, r…