Visual Music

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…

Some excellent resources now available in relation to the early 20th Century Drawn Sound experiments that took place in Russia.  This recent news comes from some very timely facebook posts by the Center for Visual Music. Andrei Smirnov's book 'Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia is just recently published and is available in Europe to purchase.  Andrei presented an incredible paper at the recent 'Seeing Sound Symposium', 2011, held in Bath Spa of which I attended and saw and heard the incredible work and experiments presented in relation to this period. " Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia Edited by David Rogerson, Matt Price. Foreword by Jeremy …

"Sound out of Paper is a research project in progress related to the technology of synthesizing sound from light called Graphical (Drawn) Sound technique which was invented in Soviet Russia in 1929 as a consequence of the newly invented sound-on-film technology. At exactly the same time similar efforts were being undertaken in Germany by Rudolf Pfenninger in Munich and, somewhat later, by Oscar Fischinger in Berlin. As such the history of the Graphical Sound is an interesting cross section of 20th century history, reaching from the euphoria of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century inventors through the paradigm-smashing experiments of the Soviet avant-garde in the 1920's and 1930's to the cynical clash of ideologies of the Post-war years and finally…