Visual Music

Barcelona based IQBIT is an electronic composer from Rome based in Barcelona, Spain. IQBIT collaborates with Visual Artists, creating electronic music and sound for collaborative video and audio visual projects.  The works from these colloborations are both linked to research in synaesthesia but are also definitely are Visual Music.  Their visual music arises from a collaboration between music composers and visual artists, so the resulting video is a unity of the composition of visual and audio material.  Some of the videos are live sets - consisting of live audio and video. The words used to describe their works - sound video. Their live sets are described as Audio Visual Projects. Iqbit myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/iqbit Collaborations with xx+xy visuals …

Yolande Harris - media artist and composer. "Yolande is a composer and media-artist working with sound, image and space in a technologically extended environment. She proposes a radical notion of the musical score and uses technology in her work as the means through which to understand the electronically extended spaces we inhabit." (artist statement on website) website: http://www.yolandeharris.net Example Project highlighted here. http://www.yolandeharris.net/light_house.htm A Collection of Circles (or Pharology) Interactive Sound Installation at: CCNOA (Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) Earwitness Sound Art Series, Brussels January 2005 Light Phase performance for video, voice, sound and sensors: Video Dance Festival, International Film Festival …

Radiographic - aesthetic between aural and visual http://www.g39.org/cgi-bin/website.cgi?place=exhibitions&id=64 " ‘Radiographic’ applies the same approach to creating and discussing audio as we would image. Following this line of inquiry, the medium of radio has the propensity to a very particular aesthetic, from the woolly quality of the medium, long-wave frequencies to the hyper real production values of current pop. Specific stations have a particular aesthetic too, from BBC Radio 1’s throwaway immediacy to the steady dulcet lullaby of Radio 4’s information relay. This aural aesthetic is the basis of ‘Radiographic’, though this is by no means a purely aural exhibition. Rather it aims to explore the crossovers, parallels and happy coincid…