Visual Music

I have been following Alba G. Corral's visual work for many years and her powerful and stunning visual work for live audio-visual performances. Each visual I come across or video documentation I watch, I am in such admiration of her talent. Corral works with musicians, music producers and live electronics musician and is involved in many audiovisual projects ranging from installation to audiovisual performance in a range of settings from fulldome, to large-scale screen audiovisual performances. Her output is prolific and her visual style is polished, sophisticated, intricate and beautifully formed. ALBA G. CORRAL [ES] & MAKARUK [PL] - DIMENSION N - audiovisual performance .   Short Biography " Alba G. Corral (b. 1977 – Madrid) based in Barcelon…

Zsolt Gyenes is an intermedia artist and art theorist based in Hungary.  I have been following Gyenes work on facebook and the images that he regularily posts from his current works and practice are so interesting with lovely sense of form, texture, light and colour.  Gyenes refers to his art works as 'audio-visual' works.   Source:  Zsolt Gyenes  http://gyenes62.hu/hybrid_media.html    Zsolt Gyenes  Website:  http://gyenes62.hu   "His artistic practice is concerned with the process of translation and fusion between different forms of media, exploring the creative possibilities of what might be lost or gained through such interpretation and exploring how getting new qualities of art on this way. He has exhibited widely in various international motion…

Un Souririe by Aurora Gasull  Auroral Gasull has been working in Visual Music for the last 10 years. Her latest work in ‘ Un Souririe ’ (A Smile) with music of Olivier Messiaen. This is a very beautiful animation, that has many visual worlds presentet to us akin to phrases in music, in which a visual world explores the music world and changes and transforms. Some very evocative scenes, for example, a really lovely expansive scene of colours shapes that work as a whole but which expand and contract into stretched or compressed shapes - lovely motion experiences. http://www.aurora.cat/auroraunsourire/ From biography on her website 'Born in Barcelona, cellist and member of a number of chamber groups up to 1990, she first approaches visual arts through phot…

Johnathan Gillie's animations are such surreal worlds which animate in the most unusual manner where many things exist at different times and in different spatial locations with their own temporal appearance and disapearance, for his work 'Ways of seeing' he considers the physiological processes involved in the act of seeing itself. Very beautiful and intriguing work. Ways of Seeing A Broken Bell  He has been working in Moving Image since 1995. Is involved with Trampoline Multimedia 1997-2000 and is one half of av_dv 1999-2004. He is currently employed as Senior Technician in Moving Image Dept of NTU.  His current practice involves video, animation, computer graphics and sound production. More Information Johnathan Gillie - [Creative Journal  We…

I have just come across the work of Andreas Karaoulanis. His animations are 'stop me in my tracks' beautiful. I have watched some from his vimeo channel, but felt I must post this to keep track of this great work. Why do I like it? The illustrations in a moving collage type style are so rhythmic. The movements and the flat arrangement of objects and cut outs in a formless and groundless space, in fact, the space is just a background colour in many works, is perfectly in tune with the musicality of the music, not just a synchronised beat but a whole mood, style and playfulness that may not even be apparent in the music, if one listened to the music on its own, but emerges with his playful rhythms and arrangement and positioning of independent yet connect…

Matthew Biederman's work Event Horizon , multichannel HD video, 4.1 audio, custom software, computers 2012, is an incredible sensation of colour. And what can I say but put it that way - a sensation of colour. Commissioned for: 1st Biennial of Digital Art, Montreal and Presented at: Salle McLaren, Cinematheque Quebecqoise May 3 - June 10, 2012. An interview about it is included in the recent Sonic Acts Catalogue, 2013, Dark Universe More information on the work:  http://www.mbiederman.com/Event-Horizon "The work metaphorically explores the phenomenon of the ‘event horizon’. Understood scientifically, the term refers to the space-time beyond which events cannot affect an observer. The most common situation where this occurs naturally are the edges of a…

Vibeke Sorensen's Visual Music Installation, Illuminations is being presented as part of the ART section of the 3-D Festival Beyond at Karlsruhe, Germany from 03 October to 06 October, 2013. The installation was also held at the International Visual Music Symposium of the Center for Asian Art & Design, (CAAD) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, October 12 - 14, 2012.  I attended the installation in Singapore, and it quite stunning.  The screens are presented at angles in a darkened room and the imagery is luminous and colourful.  The interaction between the imagery on each screen is analagous to a visual music. Illuminations Installation Description on the Festival Website "ILLUMINATIONS is a real-time computer generated visual musi…

Mark Rowan-Hull - Performance Painting Mark explores 'the invigorating ephemeral qualities of visual art and the encapsulating of time in Music via performance'.  He creates and performs painting responding to music.   "In order to publicise his ideas of visualising music Mark embarked on a series of exciting performances and events involving painting live on stage responding to music by composers such as Messiaen, Scriabin, Debussy, Shostakovich and George Crumb together with Jazz and improvisation. These performances took place in a wide variety of settings including the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Festival Hall, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club. source:  http://www.rowan-hull.com/biography/ Website:  http://…

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU HEAR Lis Rhodes recent work, Light Music is installed in Tate Modern, London, Uk from 18th July - 28th October, 2012. " Light Music  is an innovative work presented originally as a performance that experiments with celluloid and sound to push the formal, spatial and performative boundaries of cinema. An iconic work of expanded cinema, it creates a more central and participatory role for the viewer within a dynamic, immersive environment... Light Music  is Rhodes’s response to what she perceived as the lack of attention paid to women composers in European music. She composed a ‘score’ comprised of drawings that form abstract patterns of black and white lines onscreen. The drawings are printed onto the optical edge of the filmstrip. As th…

Sergio Maltagliati CIRCUS 5.1 UNICUM GRAPHICS The images of HomeArt programs by Pietro Grossi, are proposed through software by Sergio Maltagliati. This is a software which generates always different graphical variations.  It is based on HomeArt’s Basic source code.  The music program produces an automatic and generative music,starting from a simple sound cell. Visu@lMusic/HomeArt www.visualmusic.it free video download: http://www.pietrogrossi.org/cerchio4_2_unicum.7z download images: http://www.pietrogrossi.org/Cerchio_4_2%20immagini.7z About "A/V interactive compositions on the NET by Sergio Maltagliati Beginning with netOper@ in 1997, Sergio Maltagliati has created works on the Internet that combine audio and video elements into an intrigui…

Jt Root, music-visualist and VJ known as Aeonchild, works out of Boulder, Colorado as a Production Designer and Live VJ Performer. Recently has created a visualist piece - The Aeonchild Visualist Project, a commissioned work by Ballet Nouveau Colorado's production of "Love in the Digital Age". source:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeonchild/6820176415/in/photostream I am very taken with the term 'visualist' or 'music-visualist' that Aeonchild uses to describe his process of interpreting music, here is a quote from his website explaining this term. "Aeonchild’s work re-interprets music into a visual language, spinning cosmic messages with symmetrical precision. Through the use of motion graphics, video, light and color, he …

Richard Lainhart's audio visual work I have been a fan of, ever since I encountered one of my favourite audio visual works, Pneuma.  I have already blogged about this work previously.  I am very saddened to hear that Richard died on the 30th December, 2011.  So as a tribute to him and his wonderful piece Pneuma, I am reposting it here and am very saddened to hear this news. PNEUMA - Richard Lainhart http://vimeo.com/1014353 Pneuma from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo . "Pneuma" is based on growth patterns generated by celluar automata software, processed in Adobe After Effects to create constantly changing structures ranging from the crystalline to the architectural. The soundtrack is a live improvisation on the Buchla 200e analog modular synth…

Jean Piché OCÉANES, 2010/2011 Exploring parallels between image and music with particle generated image and granular synthesis generated sound - incredibly beautifully composed. 'A videomusic work by Jean Piché, 'exploring the aesthetic potential of particle based computer generated imagery. Analogous to granular sound processing, particle synthesis allows for the creation and control of complex materials using an large number of very small components. Sound and image coordination does not explicitely use synchresis as a discursive device but aims for an elevated relation based on metaphor and emotional detachment, as if contemplating a field of images from a distant perspective.' source: http://vimeo.com/25933560 view on vimeo OCÉANES from J…

Electroluminesence an audiovisual composition composed by Sharon Phelan in 2009 is a very hypnotic and beautiful audio visual piece with a very stylised colour scheme and motion palette.  Sharon composed the music to the visuals, a kind of deep seeing and hearing.  I saw this again yesterday evening in the ATRL lab, Trinity College, Dublin and it was quite stunning aurally and visually in such a great setting, with high quality projection and audio. Electroluminescence from Sharon Phelan on Vimeo . "Audiovisual composition consisting of video feedback. The music and visuals were informed by each other in an exploration of emergent forms. Slight changes to certain parameters lead to complex results."

This piece is quite incredible in the patterns and sense of depth and dimension.  It is really beautiful.  Semiconductors film 200 Nanowebbers was really brilliant too, but this new work form 2011, is equally as good.  Great work semiconductor 20 Hz - A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. '0 5.00 minutes / HD / 201 1 HD single channel and HD 3D single channel . A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.' "20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by in…

Yan Breuleux 's beautiful works are really worth checking out. Based in Montreal, both teaching in the faculty of Music at the University of Montreal and completing a Phd, he has accumulated a large portfolio of works that are documented clearly on his website. Website: http://www.ybx.ca/ Yan Breuleux's animations are quite beautiful and some of their presentations and installations are quite breathtaking. He collaborates with musicians and composers and creates pieces for multi-screen, panoramic and hemispheric presentations. He is interested in the influence of architecture in audio visual performance and some of these projects are incredible in their scale and drama. An example project has been documented on flickr. "En préparation de la diffus…

Christina McPhee's three channel video triptych, Bird of Paradise (Christina McPhee 2011) is a stunning silent visual music work, with such visual harmony and balance - a very beautiful work. Bird of Paradise three channels / 10 minutes / HD video /silent / 2011 bird of paradise / channel three from Christina McPhee on Vimeo . It will premiere in a program curated by the Center for Visual Music at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), in late July. The program will screen at LACMA through January 2012. Location: Stark Bar, central plaza (new design by Renzo Piano), LACMA. Check out many of Christina's work on her vimeo channel (to date 39 uploaded) http://vimeo.com/christinamcphee/videos Christina's website: http://www.christinamcphee…

I have been coming across Andrew Hill's name in relation to visual music quite frequently recently. An up and coming artist and researcher in the audio-visual artwork genre. Flux is quite beautiful in its sound and image relationships - ordered, synaesthetic, gorgeous. More info on Andrew Hill "Andrew Hill is a composer from the UK. He studied electroacoustic music and music technology at Keele and De Montfort Universities electing to focus his studies upon audio-visual composition. He is currently conducting PhD research investigating audience reception of electroacoustic audio-visual artworks with Leigh Landy and Bret Battey at De Montfort University." Source: http://vimeo.com/andrewhill Flux Flux from Andrew Hill on Vimeo . "An …

Rosa Menkman's work is beautiful in how it works with glitch and artifact images in her video work. "Every technology possess its own inherent accidents. ЯOSΛ MEИKMΛN is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences." Source of quote: http://aboutrosamenkman.blogspot.com/ Radio Dada by Rosa Menkman Video: Rosa Menkman Music: Extraboy Radio Dada from Rosa Menkman on Vimeo . "The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image created by feedback (I turned a high-end camera on…

This is a very fascinating audio visual work - emulating human emotion - those of love and fear, and how wonderful this piece is. The introduction is like the audiovisual elements breathe together.... a beautiful artwork. Audiovisuelle Rauminstallation fear:love from Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien on Vimeo . "fear: love is an audiovisual installation by Gerrit Kress, which deals with the two emotions fear and love. It shows the center of human emotion: an inner core that contains the particular emotion, grown in a system of transmitting and receiving arms that allow communication with the body and mind."[google translate from German] Source: vimeo link: http://vimeo.com/23318809