Visual Music

Concert:  Jack B. Yeats AR and other Art Music Piano: Dr   Svetlana Rudenko  Talk: Prof Mads Haahr 19th September, 2022, 7.30 pm John Field Room National Concert Hall, Dublin Svetlana Rudenko and Collaborators on Music and Art Concert, with Talk/Narrative by Prof. Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin presented a concert of Music and Art Music Works Svetlana Rudenko performs an exciting programme of music accompanied by various art presentations, National Concert Hall, Dublin, September 19th, 2022 On Monday 19th September 2022, the innovative and talented concert pianist Dr Svetlana Rudenko performed an exciting programme of music which included a varied and interesting visual art element.  Svetlana collaborated with several artists and computer scientists to provide the…

Solas Nua: Call for Music and Multi-Media Works from Irish contemporary artists "Solas Nua ( www.solasnua.org ) was founded in 2004 to present the best of Irish contemporary arts to audiences in the United States. We invite Irish composers and media artists to submit pieces which combine original music and multi-media to be shown in Washington D.C. in Autumn 2014. Selected works will be eligible for a $1500 prize, which will be based on audience votes. DETAILS: Closing Date: August 15th 2014 Duration: Works shorter than 6 minutes are preferred, but longer works will be considered. Solas Nua plans to show selected works in a concert event, and may also display works at a D.C. visual arts venue. This opportunity is open to Irish-born, and Irish-residen…

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…

Jane Cassidy's new visual music piece - Square Ball is an installation piece and its inaugural presentation took place in Dublin, in August 2011 as part of the Glitch Festival 2011 organised by MART. This was a really beautiful and clever installation that really is something that needs to be seen and sensed, as an audience member one has to face the projector as the most amazing layers of imagery and patterns unfold with great connections to the music. Video excerpt online courtesy of Red Rua Visit Jane's Blog http://janecassidy.net/

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. …

Music Video by Kate McKeon, based in Ireland for Band Halfset. Halfset - Adrift - Kate McKeon on MUZU . See Kate McKeon's Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/katemckeonphotography I did an earlier post on Kate's Visual Music Piece- Carnival Link to it here