Visual Music

SPLICE FESTIVAL, the UK’s only dedicated audiovisual performing arts festival will open in London this summer, 3rd - 5th June. The brand new festival brings together a host of incredible and diverse artists from around the globe for a three-day feast of live cinema , audio/video remixing and visual music from both established and emerging artists with performances, workshops, talks and networking events. Boasting a live AV performance by Cassetteboy as headline, the festival programme will also include a special DJ set by Plaid (Warp Records), a live AV remix set from Addictive TV , abstract visual electronica from Sculpture , bass heavy electro AV from Germany’s incite/ , video turntablism from Solid Steel’s DJ Cheeba , live cinema from The Light Surgeons , pl…

Seeing Sound 4 - Call for papers/works Seeing Sound 4 will take place on the 9th and 10th of April 2016 at Bath Spa University in the UK and is now open for submissions of papers , fixed media works and performance works and - as a special call this year - are looking for imaginative proposals for the MediaWall and atrium space of their new building. The deadline for all submissions is 29 January 2016. Website:  http://www.seeingsound.co.uk/ 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 i…

Sound/ Image Colloquium 2015 7th - 8th November, 2015 11 Stockwell Street  University of Greenwich  SE10 8EY Greenwich United Kingdom http://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sounddesign/events/sound-image/ Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice. The Sound / Image colloquium is interested in exploring the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we will bring together artists and academics to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena. Michel Chion  is special guest. Additional keynote talks from  Jo Hyde  and  Mairead McClean . The event itself will take place on the weekend of the 7th / 8th November 2015, at the Stock…

Computer Baroque - curated by Richard Wright. online exhibition from 14 April to 14 July 2009 "Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright. Computer Baroque is a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the late eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology... The Computer Baroque programme screened at Tate Modern on 20 March 2009; the majority of those works are now showing here from 14 April to 14 July 2009. Programme notes by curator Richard Wright." See: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_b…

Visible Music Composing visions of sound by UK composer Jim Aitchison. "Jim Aitchison is a composer whose music derives from a range of sources, often from the world of the visual, re-imagining contemporary and past artworks as notations of sound. He makes music for chamber ensembles, orchestra and solo performers out of encounters with visual art and living artists, curators and galleries. The work is proposed both as a response to these encounters and as part of a wider engagement with fundamental musical and artistic issues." His responses to art/paintings in a musical context are quite extraordinary. The scores resemble the visual - as in the screenshot when you come to his website initially, here a painting entitled Elegy for Terry Frost by John Hyland …