Visual Music

Julie Watkins, a practicing visual music artist and theories the in field published the following paper, 'Composing Visual Music: Visual Music Practice at the Intersection of Technology, Audio-visual Rhythms and Human Traces' in 2018. It is published by the Body, Space & Technology journal and is available to read on their website. Read Online:  https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/10.16995/bst.296/# This article is an excellent article on Visual Music and it raises several theoretical ideas as well as analysis of the author's own visual music practice and research intertwined with a very rich source of references to key texts and works in the field. Harvard Citation: Watkins, J., 2018. Composing Visual Music: Visual Music Practice at the Intersection of…

The University of Greenwich, London is looking for submissions for the forthcoming Colloquium to take place 10-12 November 2017 Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts – the event will bring together artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena. They are seeking papers and compositions which explore the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. CALL FOR WORKS: Paper Submissions Audiovisual (Fixed Media) Compositions Acousmatic Works Audiovisual Live Performances The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2017. Further details of the call can be found in the attached document and on the conference website: http://www.gre.ac.uk/ach/events/…

The online article "A Brief History of Optical Synthesis" was written by Derek Holzer in 2007 as part of his Tonewheels project exploring optical sound and colour music. This web article became the basis of a lecture that Derek gives on optical sound and graphical composition. Quote from introduction "The technology of synthesizing sound from light is a curious combination of research from the realms of mathematics, physics, electronics and communications theory which found realization in the industries of motion picture films, music, surveillance technology and finally digital communications. As such, it's history is an interesting cross section of 20th century history, reaching from the euphoria of the late 19th Century and early 20th Cent…