Visual Music

BOOK: L ive Visuals  History, Theory, Practice Edited By Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka Copyright Year 2023  Available to order July 2022 Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice Book Cover - 1st Edition https://www.routledge.com/Live-Visua-ls-History-Theory-Practice/Gibson-Arisona-Leishman-Tanaka/p/book/9781032252681 ISBN 9781032252681 July 29, 2022 Forthcoming by Routledge 576 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects, and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real-time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’ mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord i…

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 installations. Seeing Sound Symposium - Bath Spa University For 2020, the Seeing Sound Symposium is taking place online over two days on 12th December and 13th December 2020.    The call for works, panels and papers closes 16th November, 2020 Call for Submissions NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE to midnight GMT Monday 16th November 2020 http://www.seeingsound.co.uk/2020-submissions/ The Seeing Sound Symposium has been taking place biannually since 2009 and the we…

About In Situ EnsembIe "The In Situ Ensemble is comprised of three performer-composers: Michael Janz on synthesizers, Ian Stahl on guitar, vocals, and electronics, and Anthony Storniolo on percussion and live video synthesis. They create site-inspired audiovisual performances by blending electroacoustic free improvisations with audio and video recordings gathered from the surroundings of where the performance will take place. Their work uses documentation as a catalyst for improvisation; field recordings and video recordings become source materials that are then translated and manipulated, recontextualizing our preconceived notions of the sonic and visual objects. Musically, the trio draws upon a diverse soundscape that ranges from quiet minimalism to co…

A most interesting and exciting project conceived by Luca De Rosso. AVO is a audiovisual performance work that explores live human-computer collaboration. It is a project that is at its early stages but it has already been documented immacutely by De Rosso. He is also very generously providing his software as open source for anyone who would like to also try it for their own audiovisual work. De Rosso is open to bookings for the performance of this work, which you can make an enquiry about online via a form on his website. Documentation of AVO - Luca De Rosso AV0 is an exploration on human-computer collaboration in the audio visual field, dedicated to those believing in computers as partners in the creative flow. "In the computer-aided creative process, whethe…

Urban Projections performs at Splice Festival - the UK’s only dedicated audiovisual performing arts festival which runs from 26-28 May 2017. http://www.splicefestival.com/ Rebecca Smith (aka Urban Projections) is creating some fabulous work for various settings, and the work is full of creativity, innovation and ingenuity and really worth checking out further and if you are in London do go see her performance at the Splice Festival. Rebecca kindly took time out of her preparations for her performance at the forthcoming Splice Festival to answer a few questions about her work and forthcoming performance. I am very happy that she answered some questions and for me to now present her answers to the readers of this visual music blog and to get the opportunity for Rebec…

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…

Chiaki Watanabe is performing new live audio visual performances and installations in May, June 2010 at several visual music and audio visual events in Copenhagan, Denmark and Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany. "Chiaki Watanabe is a visual artist/designer based in Copenhagen, and New York. She creates abstract visual music works in various forms: video, live video performance and installation. Her work explores cross-sensory experience in a minimalist framework by integrating sound and visual imagery. Known for “hardcore-abstract” visuals. Her interest lies in visual phenomena within music and music within visual phenomena – visual music in physical space - psychophysical effects of visual music - how visual music stimulates the senses."(US/JP/DK) Bio at: ht…