Visual Music

Julie Watkins, a practicing visual music artist and theories the in field published the following paper, 'Composing Visual Music: Visual Music Practice at the Intersection of Technology, Audio-visual Rhythms and Human Traces' in 2018. It is published by the Body, Space & Technology journal and is available to read on their website. Read Online:  https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/10.16995/bst.296/# This article is an excellent article on Visual Music and it raises several theoretical ideas as well as analysis of the author's own visual music practice and research intertwined with a very rich source of references to key texts and works in the field. Harvard Citation: Watkins, J., 2018. Composing Visual Music: Visual Music Practice at the Intersection of…

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…

Growing literature in the field of Visual Music When I started to explore the topic of audio visual composition and started to use the term 'visual music' in 1999 to describe my own practice and research, there were very few books on the topic of Visual Music as such.  However, there is a very rich source of texts in Journals on particular areas of practice and related areas of research and the term visual music did come forth in these journals, but was not prominent.  I started to gather these articles as they were precious sources of information about other people's work and research and very exciting to learn about.  The term itself came to prominence with the publication of the catalogue 'Visual Music' for a major Visual Music Exhibition held …

The deadline for submitting papers for this forthcoming conference on research and creation outcomes about visual music is TODAY - March 9th, 2015. http://uvm2015.unb.br/ "UNDERSTANDING VISUAL MUSIC - UVM 2015” June 10-12, 2015 at University of Brasilia, Brazil DEADLINE for submissions: March 9, 2015. The Computer Art Research Laboratory of the University of Brasilia (Brazil) in association with the Electronic Arts Research and Experimentation Centre (CEIArtE) of the National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina) and Concordia University (Canada) is pleased to invite you to submit proposals to share your research and creation outcomes as well as to discuss concepts, current trends, technological innovations and creativity aspects of visual music. …

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 …

A Concrete Cinema? one of several articles and presentations by Christian Gosvig Olesen on the Curating the Moving Image Blog. Christian has researched this area with great thoroughness and his articles are an excellent resource for those tracking the history of visual music and audiovisual work where there one of its main focuses is on music. In contemporary audiovisual practice, visuals are presented with electroacoustic music and in particular there are many contemporary flavours of music concrete music being used alongside a visual equivalent - a moving image concrete. Concrete cinema is a most apt term here as used by Christian in his articles. He traces the connections with Pierre Schaeffer, whom used the term cinéma concret to describe the intention to work …

Four Senses Concert, 2002 This important concert that took place in 2002 in the Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand.  The four senses concert were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks (UK). website:  link "The ‘Four Senses’ 1999, 2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences. The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of b…

Fast Forward: Conversations with machines From camera obscura to cybernetics: filmmaker Joost Rekveld outlines experimental cinema from its hidden past to a distant future. By Joost Rekveld Essay Quote from essay "In this essay I want to develop my thoughts about possible futures for what is now referred to as experimental cinema, inspired by some of the ideas behind expanded cinema. Experimental cinema is a marginal cinema, not in the sense that its purpose is to remain obscure forever, but in the sense that those filmmakers are called experimental who challenge the categories of mainstream cinema. These same artists often cross over from or into other disciplines, so in order not to lose ourselves in speculations concerning the future of everything, …

"'Raumlichtmusik' - Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments." Essay by Cindy Keefer (Director Center for Visual Music ) "Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Creative Data Special Issue. Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, and MIT Press. October 2009." This is an important historical visual music essay on Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson's early experiments in creating abstract cinema for immersive projection environments. It traces the origins in their work of what is more common today - the immersive multimedia environment. Information about plans Fischinger had to present a multimedia performance for the Farblichtmusik shows (started by László) has been researched and docume…

AVIE -Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment Project Overview Jeffrey Shaw  and  Dennis Del Favero with  Matthew McGinity ,  Ardrian Hardjono  and  Volker Kuchelmeister AVIE  is the world’s first 360-degree stereoscopic immersive interactive visualisation system that includes a motion tracking systems and a multi-channel audio system. Driven by an experimental framework, it uses a suite of cutting edge hardware and software resources enabling the development of applications in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. AVIE  has been installed as  core visualisation infrastructure  at  ZKM , Centre for Art and media, Karlsruhe, Germany, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, New York,  USA , where it fo…