Visual Music

Sacred Lumia Gallery by Louie M. Brill Louis M.Brill is a lumia artist who works from his Lumia art studio in San Francisco, US. He also writes a blog named, Sacred Lumia , here he explores "the processes of Lumia and how it fits into the world of art, cinema and culture as a visual medium of appreciation”. This is a really great resource for artists and scholars interested in the practice and context of lumia art. Louis embraces “the light as the paintbrush and canvas to present Lumia art as a very evocative and nattarive visual presence.” An important part of his practice is that lumia can be controlled through directed artistic intensions and I think this is a very commendable point. WIth the advent of technologies that can do the art for you, there is stil…

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…

Visual Music Salon November 18, Los Angeles: A CVM Salon Event, in association with Blindspot Project. Featuring films by Jordan Belson, Joshua Light Show, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, David Lebrun, Harry Smith, John Stehura, Jud Yalkut, plus contemporary videos by Bret Battey, Scott Draves, Chris Harvey, Christina McPhee, Steve Woloshen and more. 16mm prints and digital, A Visual Music Salon - CVM and Blindspot presented by Cindy Keefer of CVM ; filmmakers Lebrun and Harvey in person. PLUS Live Music by Golden Animals, featuring liquid light show by The Blindspot Project and Joshua Payne Orchestra, featuring live video painting by Ryan Patrick Griffith More information: See Facebook Events Announcement for up to date information https://www.facebook.com/events/1834…

Video of performance of KIMA by Analemma Group and Union Chapel Organ Project at Union Chapel From description on Youtube Published on 25 Apr 2015 "In an epochal site-specific performance night, London based art collective Analema Group and the Union Chapel Organ Project transformed Union Chapel’s ornate wooden ceiling into a canvas for real time visual music . KIMA – ‘wave’ in ancient Greek – interprets music as interplay of light and form, an artistic quest for a new reading of sound. KIMA uses mathematical equations of cymatics – sound waves creating patterns on matter to organize sound in visual way. In Mare Undarum, Joby Burgess (powerplant) performed percussion improvisation with Claire M Singer – accompanied by the dancer Estela Merlos (previously at Ramber…

Beautiful animations from Matt Abbis From Matt’s website: Matt Abbiss animates, draws and lectures (mainly about animation). Website: http://cargocollective.com/abbiss Point by Matt Abbis

Analema Group presents KIMA: The Wheel at the London Roundhouse. The audience explores their voices as sound is transformed into visual form. KIMA: The Wheel @ Roundhouse (screengrab from youtube) "Analema Group presents KIMA – Wheel at the Roundhouse. On the 360 canvas of Ron Arad’s Curtain Call, the audience experiences sound as an immersive visual phenomenon. A sound poem, Evgenia Emets’ “Wheel” guides the audience in exploring their own voices.” Source: https://analemagroup.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/kima-wheel-performed-at-the-roundhouse-curtain-call/

Punto Y Raya Festival 2016 WHEN: OCTOBER 20th-23rd 2016 @ ZKM in KARLSRUHE, Germany. FREE ADMISSION until full capacity is reached. Punto y Raya Festival Logo The sixth edition of Punto y Raya Festival encompasses four intensive and wonderful days of pure Abstract Art in Motion, featuring: Official Competition (117 films from 33 countries) German Panorama curated by Robert Seidel, Dirk de Bruyn retrospective & Hong Kong Visual Music PyRformances by Dirk de Bruyn (AU), YRO (France) and Robert Lippok (DE) Installation by Larry Cuba (USA) Academy programme with masterclasses and retrospectives by Jodie Mack (USA), Max Hattler (DE·Hong Kong), Dirk de Bruyn (AU) & Holger Lang (Austria). puntoyrayafestival.com zkm.de Teaser created by KinoManual (Maciej Bączyk &am…

Addictive TV perform at SPLICE , London’s new and only audiovisual performing arts festival which runs from 3-5 June, 2016 " Addictive TV ’s line-up is founder Graham Daniels and mash-up guru Mark Vidler, aka Go Home Productions. The pair met in 2005, through EMI, working together on Mark’s album track Rapture Riders – remixing Blondie’s Rapture with The Doors Riders on the Storm. The album Mashed was released in 2007. Graham and Mark’s shared passion for film and music, plus their parallel journeys through VJ and mash-up DJ cultures, have brought the guys to where they are now; entertaining audiences and winning new fans by playing and making music their own way, audiovisually." [Source:  http://www.addictive.tv/biography ] Graham and Mark kindly a…

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…

Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano with Uli Mitzlaff at lumina, Cascais    "Published on 14 Oct 2015 This german artist proposes us some serious entertainment. An abstract language of lines, spots and dynamic plans which represent visually music activated by the artist through a MIDI keyboard. Committing the audience in the performance by creating various graphic patterns that expands the geometry of the surrounding architecture, just as the thundering winter approaches in a manipulated and controlled chaos by the artist. Kurt Laurenz Theinert is an artist of light and other different media, who acts live preferably, having his artwork “Visual Piano” being previously presented in cities all around the world. Conceived in collaboration with Philipp Rah…

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. …

KIMA - music like you’ve never seen before Evolution of Motion, Sound, Geometry and Colour by Analema Group and the Union Chapel Organ Project With Special Guests: Claire M Singer - Organ Joby Burgess – Percussion (Powerplant) Estela Merlos - Dance Laura Moody – Cello (Elysian Quartet) Robert Ames- Viola (LCO) Emily Burn – Voice (Voice) Date of performance: 22 March 2015 – 20.00 pm, doors 19.00 pm Place: Union Chapel, Compton Terrace N1 2UN, London Booking: Tickets: £10/£7 conc. + advanced booking fee via http://www.unionchapel.org.uk Programme (with 2 intervals) MARE UNDARUM AXIS MUNDI AURORA Music for your eyes and ears. Based on a natural phenomena, brought to life using leading technology - KIMA paints music in light on the incred…

Title: videomusic concert Date: 15th February, 2015 Organisers: CEC, Dias de Música Electroacústica festival, Curation Joseph Hyde. The CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community) has programmed three concerts in the 21st edition of the Dias de Música Electroacústica festival () in Seia, Portugal, from 13–15 February, 2015. The videomusic concert which is one of the three concerts programmed by CEC for this festival is curated by Joseph Hyde and consists of recent videomusic works. This concert will take place on the 15th February, 2015. See facebook page:  http://facebook.com/564944106975362 This videomusic works concert is also a followup to the publication in the April 2014 issue of eContact! 15.4. — Videomusic: Overview of an Emerging Art Form / Vidé…

Visual Music Award 2015 - Call for Entries NOW Starting right now  - submission deadline May 15th 2015 The  Visual Music Award 2015  is a junior creative competition for works on music visualizations from the fields of new media art, experimental film or animation. We invite you to participate with your work for the Visual Music Award 2015  Call for Entries 2015 .  The  submission deadline  is on friday   May 15th 2014 . As submissions to the Visual Music Award 2015 and the Visual Music Live Contest 2015 we expect interpretations of music by visionary artistic visualisations. The holistic media compositions should come close to "paintings in time", "visual music", "symphonies of light and sound", "cinematic paintings&…

" Visual hearings, a synesthetic experience " is an online international group exhibition curated by Enrique Salmoiraghi. The online exhibition is based in Argentina. It will be online from July 2014 to October 2014. The exhibition consists of visual music works and in particular audio-visuals experiments in reactivity. For more information visit the online exhibition at: http://www.espaciobyte.org/espaciobyte.php?cat=108

Day 2 of PuntoyRaya and Reykjavik Visual Music Festival happening today - January 31st, 2014 Visit:  http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/schedule/friday#ag for more information Join their facebook page for stunning photographs from the opening night of the festival January 30th 2014 and some stunning live cinema/ audiovisual photographs from this event. https://www.facebook.com/rvmfestival

Visual Music Award 2014 Submission deadline: February 28th 2014 The "Visual Music Award 2014" is a creative competition for works on music visualizations from the fields of new media art, experimental film or animation. The Visual Music Award team invite you to participate with your work in this year's "Visual Music Award 2014" Please visit: http://visual-music-award.de/en for more information on how to submit your work "The Visual Music Award 2014 submission deadline ends on February 28th 2014 - The award ceremony will take place on March 28th 2014 in GeAs contributions to the "Visual Music Award 2014" and the "Visual Music Live Contest 2014" we expect interpretations of music by visionary artistic visua…

UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT), Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles), and Corwin Chair, UCSB Department of Music, present  Exploring Visual Music - A special one day Symposium November 16, 2013 University of California, Santa Barbara 11 am, CSNI, Elings Hall, Lab 2611 "To further the development of new modes and technologies for representation and creation in the field of Visual Music, MAT, CVM and Corwin Chair present a one-day symposium investigating the aesthetics, techniques and histories of visual music. The event at UCSB includes a series of 20 minute talks by invited presenters, plus short screenings of historical and contemporary visual music films. Presenters include Clarence Barlow, Cindy Keefer, Jack Ox, Casey Mongoven, and special gue…

SoundImageSound 10 ~ Festival of New Music and Visual Image January 30/31, 2014 Conservatory of Music ~ University of the Pacific ~ Stockton, California Call for Works: This year SoundImageSound celebrates its tenth season with presentations of works by artists who bridge sound and visual image in the creation of compositions sometimes referred to as visual music or intermedia. The festival again hosts an open submission process for new works by artists from around the globe. In honor of its tenth season, SoundImageSound welcomes guest artist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski to the festival. Composer, performer, and intermedia artist, Kapuscinski is on the faculty of Stanford University where he directs the Intermedia Lab at CCRMA. During the festival he will speak abo…

Press Release from the Punto Y Riya Festival and CALL FOR WORKS As you probably know,  Punto y Raya  &  Reykjavík Center for Visual Music  have joined to produce the greatest event in the history of abstract visual music and live cinema: the  Reykjavík Visual Music  -  Punto y Raya Festival 2014 , which will take place  from  January 30 th to  February 2 nd   2014  at  HARPA  Concert Hall (Iceland).  The deadline for the  CALLS FOR ENTRIES  is  October 28th 2013 , and it's approaching fast! There is no entry fee and the films & live set demos are submitted online through our website.  www.puntoyrayafestival.com ::   SHORT FILM  CALL FOR ENTRIES Open to abstract films experimenting with  dots & lines  and avoiding representation.  All techniques are welc…