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Performing Media Festival - 2023 - South Bend, Indiana
The Performing Media Festival [PMF~2023] is an annual showcase of audio-visual performance works in which artists working with emerging technologies unapologetically cross disciplinary boundaries to create new works of integrated media. Inspired by Debora Bernagozzi’s curated show titled Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists, "Performing Media", as Debora called it, eloquently encapsulates the performance of multimedia works that underpin all the events of the current festival, named after that exhibition. Over the years, co-founders Ryan Olivier and Eric Souther came to define performing media as a genre that uses multimedia elements in a performative manner, which so far has come to include live audio-visual performances, generative media proce…

Ryoichi Kurokawa - single channel to sculptural display
Ryoichi Kurokawa, arranging the audiovisual display Ryoichi Kurokawa creates stunning audiovisual work for music concert and installation settings. His aesthetic has a recognisable visual and sound, although that aesthetic does appear in lots of other visual and sound approaches by other artists working at this time, one can still recognise Kurokawa’s work. I did a bookmark type blog post in 2009 about his work. Revisiting his work and examining the documentaiton on his website (a really lovely experience in itself), his work has really developed in the interim period and in particular what is of note is his use of the display in his work in which he arranges in unusual positions. For example, in rheo: 5 horizons, the 5 HD plasma displays are arranged not hori…

Videomusic concert - Dias de Música Electroacústica 21 - CEC
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…

Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano
Light Installation Artist - Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano Kurt Laurenz Theinert is a photographer and light artist, who develops, performs and installs incredible light installations.  The following is a summary of his visual piano instrument. " The visual piano is an instrument which makes it possible to create moving images in a space. It is unique and was conceived and developed by the photographer and light installation artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert in collaboration with the software designers Roland Blach and Philip Rahlenbeck. Using a MIDI-keyboard it is possible to generate varying graphic patterns which can be digitally projected onto one or more screens. These dynamic and immediate drawings in light are not (as with VJ soft-and H…

Sensorium 1 - Dublin - March 11th, 2011
S E N S O R I U M was a weeklong festival of new music from Irish and international artists featuring workshops, talks and a series of concerts. It included everything from electro-acoustic works and audio visual displays to improvisation, performance art and contemporary dance. The goal of Sensorium "is to show co-creative musical works in a structured curation intended to stimulate multiple senses and challenge the audience’s attention through changing aesthetics and perceptions". see: http://www.projectartscentre.ie/programme/whats-on/1191-sensorium for the programme for the week Sensorium was curated by Judith Ring , Angie Atmadjaja and Emily Kalies I attended the Sensorium 1 night on friday, March 11th and really enjoyed the variety of works tha…

Visual Music in Montréal - October 2010
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

Sound and Image Event - Colchester, UK
A unique event encompassing film,artworks, music, live performance and interactive experiences in showcasing the world of *visual music. *Items included range from pioneering work in the field to new pieces created for the evening, from cutting-edge to humorous interpretation and from international prize winning items to local endeavour. "What does music look like? This is the question that Colchester music lecturer Julia Orpen is attempting to answer at The Headgate Theatre on Sunday 6th December. The event, entitled “ Sound and Image ” is part film show, part art show, part concert and is the result of eighteen months personal investigation that has led to both local and global collaboration. Sub-titled ‘ The World of Visual Music ’, the series of short films …

Collectif EXYZT - inter disciplinary
EXYZT is a inter disciplinary collective based in paris ( architects, artists, cooks, graphic designer, vj's, ... ) These video excerpts documenting are so good I had to embed a few of them here, so I could easily come back to this post again and view these incredible vj/dj/performance, live, architecture sets - see their video channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/exyzt Boom-Box / Dj'stage / EXYZT / 1024 / Nuit-Blanche / Amiens / 4. oct 2008 USHBOOM / EXYZT @ Karosta / 2007 "A Video performance at the Labichampi festival in karosta ( Latvia )... As ninauguration of the timber structure we built in the an abandonned soviet house we performed on the facade thanks to a very simple set up. 1 mac 3 4500 lum beamers ... K@2 futur art center ?! in 2010&…

Ryoichi Kurokawa - Japan - audiovisual artist
"Ryoichi Kurokawa is a japanese audiovisual artist. His works take on multiple forms such as screening works, recordings, installation and live performance. Kurokawa composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. Kurokawa accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition. He also performed live-visual for musicians such as HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE(ex.YMO: Sketch Show + Ryuichi Sakamoto). In recent years, Kurokawa is invited to numerous noted international festivals and museums …