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…

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…

Jane Cassidy's new visual music piece - Square Ball is an installation piece and its inaugural presentation took place in Dublin, in August 2011 as part of the Glitch Festival 2011 organised by MART. This was a really beautiful and clever installation that really is something that needs to be seen and sensed, as an audience member one has to face the projector as the most amazing layers of imagery and patterns unfold with great connections to the music. Video excerpt online courtesy of Red Rua Visit Jane's Blog http://janecassidy.net/

Edwin van der Heide - Sound Modulated Light #1 Installation sound modulated light installation screenshot "Sound Modulated Light #1 is an environment of light and sound. The sound is not present acoustically, but is radiated by the lights. The light sources are the carriers of the sound. Every light source in the arranged space has a double role, simultaneously being part of the light design and part of the sound design. The sound is modulated on top of the light by means of intensity modulation. The lights flicker, but mostly at a speed that cannot be perceived by the human eye." source text Photos available at: http://www.evdh.net/sound_modulated_light/ More projects by Edwin van der Heide at: http://www.evdh.net/ Update: May 2011 "S…