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Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s
Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s Northwest Film Forum and T he Sprocket Society , in association with Center For Visual Music , present this special series celebrating the history of Visual Music, at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, April 9 - 13, 2010. Over the past century, there have been a number of prescient artists who’ve approached cinema as a tool for merging visual art and music in order to create a new art form and explore uncharted areas of synaesthetic experience. Through a vibrant history of cinematic experiments, these pioneers have been inventing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and technologies on which our modern image-and-sound culture is based. VISUAL MUSIC is a rare opportunity to see restored film prints of work by such master animat…

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Sound and Image Event - Colchester, UK
A unique event encompassing film,artworks, music, live performance and interactive experiences in showcasing the world of *visual music. *Items included range from pioneering work in the field to new pieces created for the evening, from cutting-edge to humorous interpretation and from international prize winning items to local endeavour. "What does music look like? This is the question that Colchester music lecturer Julia Orpen is attempting to answer at The Headgate Theatre on Sunday 6th December. The event, entitled “ Sound and Image ” is part film show, part art show, part concert and is the result of eighteen months personal investigation that has led to both local and global collaboration. Sub-titled ‘ The World of Visual Music ’, the series of short films …

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An Evening of Visual Music Films - CVM and LA Filmforum US - 2005
Evening of Visual Music Films - May 1 2005 Los Angeles LA Filmforum and CVM ( Center for Visual Music ) presented "Visual Music Films" - from German pioneers to psychedelia to current day Visual Music. Presented in conjunction with the Visual Music show at MOCA. Program included: Light Rhythm s, Francis Bruguiere, 1930 Study No. 6 , Oskar Fischinger, 1930 Tanz der Farben (Dance of the Colors) , Hans Fischinger, 1939 Peyote Queen , Storm De Hirsch, 1965 Cibernetik 5.3 , John Stehura, 1960-65 Heavy Light , Adam Beckett, 1973 Cycles , Jordan Belson and Stephen Beck, 1975 Power Spot , Michael Scroggins, 1986 A Sense of Wonder , Devon Damonte, 1987 Passage , Bärbel Neubauer, 2002 Zygote and Xylo , Chris Casady, 2005 Helios , Mondi, 2005 Green Violet/Reflecto , G…

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