Visual Music

BOOK: Visual Music Masters: Abstract Explorations: History and Contemporary Research Author: Adriano Abbado 2018 Adriano Abbado’s recent publication on the history and contemporary practice of Visual Music is available now. A great resource for all interested in learning more about the origins and the field of visual music. It is richly illustrated and very clearly organised and so is also really great for pedagogy purposes too. You can order the book at Amazon at the following link Adriano has provided some more information on the book at his website: http://www.noisegrains.com/?page_id=237 Book topics I History The Beginnings Music and Early Twentieth-Century Luminous Instruments Abstract Films Music and Abstract Art Electronic Art II Contemporary Developments Anim…

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 …

The Center for Visual Music has set up a vimeo channel to show excerpts from Films from the Collection of Center for Visual Music archive. Many have been preserved by CVM and/or curated by CVM in programs seen worldwide. http://vimeo.com/channels/124018 This channel is an excellent resource for those wishing to see excerpts from the CVM collection archive and is worth keeping a regular check as more films are added to the channel. It is just wonderful to see William Moritz discuss Oskar Fischinger's work, to see the Lumigraph Film (c. 1969) by Elfriede Fischinger (excerpt). This is a very valuable vimeo channel for fans and scholars of visual music. Center for Visual Music - Vimeo Channel www.centerforvisualmusic.org

The Visual Music Archive has been set up by Heike Sperling . This is an excellent online resource for all that is happening in visual music and would be worth bookmarking and coming back to regularly. The layout is really easy to use and follow and this is an exciting resource, that I will definitely be keeping in touch with regularly. Visual Music Archive Heike makes the very interesting points about archiving practice via online means. "Since the Visual Music Archive is not a blog it accumulates slowly and steadily, and shall continue to far into the future. To seek completeness in the field of fine arts seems rather eerie. A wunderkammer, on the other hand, is far more interesting, challenging, and provides inspiring impulses. As a library's in…

The website netEX - networked experience has a really useful resource page that list forthcoming calls for works that would be relevant in particular to those who create visual music and audio visual work. The page is called "calls and deadlines" and is worth checking into every now and then for opportunities to get your work shown. http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/

I have only recently got round to compiling some of the books I have checked out (and would like to check out) when researching topics for visual music.  There are also some great DVDs worth getting.  These resources I have compiled into an amazon a store - at present it links to books on the amazon.co.uk website, but I will be also creating a similar one to link to amazon.com These resources are not all exactly visual music resources, but they are definitely helpful in any kind of visual music investigations or research or in the broader area of audio visual composition/installation/interaction I have signed up with Amazons affiliate programme, so every link you click from my store and then go onto purchase I get a small percentage.  I am slightly monetising my bl…

The iotacenter are doing a very cool thing on their site - each week, they select a clip of the week, site of the week and artist of the week. Thanks to Derek Haugen of Iotacenter for selecting this Visual Music Blog as site of the week on November 30th. Visit: - iota at: http://www.iotacenter.org/ Available at Amazon Visual Music from Iota: An Anthology of Contemporary Art, Vol. 1 (2006)

There are some really interesting vimeo channels showcasing contemporary work in the audio visual field. These channels are a great opportunity to see what is going on with audio visual work/art/music today. They also demonstrate how many different fields that audio visual works are taking place in - such as in installation settings, as interfaces, in gallery spaces, as films and animations led by music collaborations and music label collaborations - there are just so many ways now in which audio and visual are being put together...I like to still call all these approaches visual music. (Author Comment) Experimental Motion Graphics Channel http://vimeo.com/channels/motiongraphics Designflux http://vimeo.com/channels/designflux "Designflux exists as a quarterly pu…

NEW VISUAL MUSIC RESOURCES from Ron Pellegrino Ron Pellegrino's website has an extensive amount of resources that are of great relevance for any studies into visual music and visual music visualisers.  Not only does it document his own work, but also provides links to his writings on the area of music and visual studies and writings and resources on visual music. For example some really excellent resources can be found linked from the homepage of his website - http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/ Topics and Resources such as: Visual Music Compositional Thinking Of interest is his recent writings and resources and a book and DVD now available. EMERGENT MUSIC AND VISUAL MUSIC: INSIDE STUDIES - BOOK and DVD - 2009 Some new visual music …

Excellent and really relevant resource on Visual Music authored by Hieke Sperling . "Dr. Heike Sperling is co-chairing with Prof. Manfred Becker the post-graduate-program Motion Design at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 1998. She has also been teaching at the University of the Arts (HFK) Bremen, the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria, and the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Basel." Heike's website also documents her own work and students work where she teaches visual music, it also documents talks and workshops she gives. All screenshots link to pages of her website Website

I am hoping to better gather together essays and articles on visual music and visual music relevant topics in this blog.  I have only recently realised that blogger provides a tag facility, and so posts can be accessed via the tags.  A few such tags I wish to try to provide more posts for is the tags: essay , article , research , writing .  I have come across a lot of good writing - online or otherwise, so I am probably really doing this for myself, so I can quickly get access to them again.   CVM and iotaCenter  based in Los Angeles, US provide really good resources and links to excellent resources.  Check them out for more up to date and extensive links. If you have a link to an excellent essay, piece of writing or resource, I would love to put it in this blog, if y…

Excellent experimental Music and Video Resource run by Spenayoung. http://newmusicresource.blogspot.com/

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tonecolor - resource in close connections between music and visual arts. "Tonecolor is a resource for those interested in the close connections between music and visual arts. Included are artist/musician listings and articles on tools and ideas regarding the audio/visual connection." http://www.imaja.com/as/tonecolor/ Article: Generative Art: An exploration of meaning "One might define generative art as art where the main technique of development within a piece or series of pieces is an evolutionary process, like biological or physical evolution, or the evolution of ideas. This might mean that the intent of the work is to make evolution the primary message. Evolution involves a complex process of development with many possible influences. Much of art inv…

Media Art History This is an excellent resource. Re:Live Media Art History organises a biannual confernence on the histories of media art, science and technology. The website keeps a record of the conferences. The MediaArtHistoriesArchive - documents and hosts a" digital repository of scholarship examining the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology! Our collections are currently being fleshed out and added to. Archive Goals :: world wide access - create a place for classic texts, cross-pollinated, cutting-edge scholarship - items submitted and regulated by authors - rich metadata MAHArchive connects disciplines which devote research efforts to Media Art, from art history, through film, theater, media and cultural studies, to psychology, informati…