Visual Music

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

"Binary Opposition" for Video and Electronics by Edgar Barroso Edgar Barroso "Born in Mexico in 1977, Edgar Barroso is a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at Harvard University where he works with Hans Tutschku, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, Michael Gandolfi and Chaya Czernowin. " Source: http://edgarbarroso.net/?page_id=12 This is a stunningly beautiful audiovisual work, that seems to reduce both aural and visual material to one thing, which is then used as material to craft a unified work that consists of aural and visual material. What I love about this piece, is its incredible sense of structure and development with visual and aural elements evolving over time into a variety of similar and dissimilar transformations - really e…

Vessel - Alba G. Corral and Jon Hopkins The visuals in this piece are just beautiful. Vessel - Jon Hopkins from Alba G. Corral on Vimeo . Collaboration between Jon Hopkins and Alba G. Corral in L.E.V. 2011 Website: Alba G. Corral "Alba G. Corral (Madrid, 1977), based in Barcelona, use the code to create visual tools to give life real-time digital abstract landscapes. Develops programming visual generative art and live performances in the live context cinema. Combines form and technique, getting narratives that create atmospheres express sensitivity and taste for color. Has come a long way always related to visual manipulations. Improvisation different atmospheres digital sound and language become abstract organic sensations in their creations…

"GARY JAMES JOYNES is a sound artist, composer and visual artist from Edmonton, Canada...As CLINKER, his work explores meditative spaces and the kinesthetic and synesthetic effects of sound and visuals...Recent work includes "On the Other Side..." a Live Cinema piece commissioned by the 2008 INTERNATIONAL LEONARD COHEN FESTIVAL" Source: http://www.clinkersound.com/bio-cv/bio-cv.htm Clinker Live Cinema Really beautiful work by Clinker in Live Cinema performance. He provides a really useful and interesting definition of Live Cinema on his website's live cinema page. " LIVE CINEMA | AV PERFORMANCE - MANDATE CLINKER’s Live Cinema creates a live synchresis between audio-visual events which reside in the moment. No computer or MIDI syn…

Bart Vegter, Nacht-Licht , Netherlands, 1993, 13 min. 16mm View Nacht-Licht on the EYE channel at Preview Instant Cinema http://preview.instantcinema.org/eye/422 "Vegters first film made with the use of handwritten image generating computer programmes. Each of the three parts in the film has its own, formal starting-point. On this formal basis, variations are executed by gradual changes in position, direction, movement, velocity and colour of the elements."

Historical Resource The Center for Visual Music (CVM) has a really useful research page on the Charles Dockum, the inventor of the mobilcolor projector - a projection device for performing abstract colour imagery. Visit website: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Dockum/

"Space Light Art" - Early Abstract Cinema and Multimedia, 1900-1959 by Cindy Keefer Article online at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/CKSLAexc.htm

Fraction et Pierre Hébert en concert à la Maison de la culture d'Amiens, 29 janvier 2011, partie-2 Extract of the live performance of Pierre Hebert & Fraction@Amiens, France. 20/01/2011. Image and music are improvised. Fraction - Part Two Part One and Three are also online at youtube Part One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCn96-U5Gs0&feature=related Part Three - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45oEETTjq4&feature=related

Jane Cassidy's visual music piece "The Night After I Kicked it" is a stunningly beautiful well structured visual music composition. Jane composed the visuals and music.  Having watched closely as Jane composed this piece, it was really a pleasure to see and hear this wonderful work unfold over a period of months. I love this piece. It is now on vimeo - but to see it in full quality with surround sound audio is the best way to experience this piece. However for its visual music genius, great to watch on vimeo. The Night After I Kicked It from Jane Cassidy on Vimeo .

Davor Sanvincenti  / b.1979 / is a International multimedia artist from Croatia, also known by monikers such as Messmatik  and  Gurtjo Ningmor International multimedia artist from Croatia, specifically interested in a field of audiovisual research and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. He is recipient of the Radoslav Putar Award 2010 for the best Croatian artist under 35. Website:  http://www.messmatik.net/ Hauntingly Beautiful Piece luminokinetika /// trailer from messmatik on Vimeo . see also: http://www.messmatik.net/

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, color filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time. -- DESCRIPTION FROM THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA website url:  http://www.onf.ca/film/rectangle_et_rectangles More information on the filmmaker on the NFB website http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/Rene-Jodoin/overview.php

I was lucky to be involved in the creation of the visual music visuals for a collaborative work entitled "Silk Chroma". Working as a collaborative team to create this work was a wonderful experience. The Irish composer Linda Buckley was a pleasure to work with and the electro-acoustic composition that she composed is beautiful. Linda and I worked closely together to realise the ideas for the work, interestingly Linda described much of the music she would like to create in visual terms that really appealed to me and inspired the visuals. Similarly some visuals and still images that I created inspired sounds and timbres for Linda. Good stuff. Silk Chroma is an audio-visual work that is inspired by the novella Silk by Alessandro Baricco as a conceptual f…

POINT LINE CLOUD "POINT LINE CLOUD is a collection of audio and video collaborations between Curtis Roads and Stephen O'Reilly, it has been a ever shifting project over the years which constantly continues to evolve. The first performance of the materials that grew into the project was in 2001 at a concert with Autechre and Russell Haswell in Los Angeles. Since then it has been performed in many diverse venus around the world." Point Line Cloud (selections) from Brian O'Reilly on Vimeo . From Vimeo - description "Beneath the level of the note lies the realm of sound particles. Each particle is a pinpoint of sound. Recent advances let us probe and manipulate this microacoustical world. Sound particles dissolve the rigid bricks of mus…

October 13, 14, 15, 18, 21 - 2010 A rich array of visual music events featuring film, concert, lecture and live performances of Jean Detheux's visual music works. Jeans visual music works are quite incredible. Jean Detheux's Visual Music in Montréal Visit: http://visualmusic.ning.com/events/event/listUserEvents?user=JeanD2 for more information Have just viewed Jeans visual music visuals for Phrygian Gates (excerpt) Music - John Adams, piano Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven- simply stunning view excerpt online at: http://www.vudici.net/movies/Transe_Demo/Phrygian_Gates_Demo_en.html

Genesi is a live audiovisual show by Abstract Bird. Both the music and the visuals are generated in realtime using the input of two electric instruments (a wind instrument and a piano). More information on Abstract Birds and about this piece Genesi Some stills at: http://www.abstractbirds.com/genesi/ and flickr.com/​photos/​abstractbirds/​sets/​72157624962280404/​ Genesi by Abstract Birds Genesi (trailer) from Abstract Birds on Vimeo . This is a very beautiful work and at present one of my favourite audio visual pieces - ok I do have a lot of favourites, its the quietness and simple shadings - just great. "Abstract birds are Pedro Mari and Natan Sinigaglia, two visual music artists. Their work combines images with sounds through the use of mus…

Pixel Noizz Influenced by Hans Richter's Rhythmus 21. Pixel noizz developed a plugin to produce richter style video glitches from any input. PXN_richterizz from pixel noizz on Vimeo . View Pixel noizz vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/pixelnoizz Visit pixel noizz blog: http://pixelnoizz.wordpress.com/