Visual Music

"Binary Opposition" for Video and Electronics by Edgar Barroso Edgar Barroso "Born in Mexico in 1977, Edgar Barroso is a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at Harvard University where he works with Hans Tutschku, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, Michael Gandolfi and Chaya Czernowin. " Source: http://edgarbarroso.net/?page_id=12 This is a stunningly beautiful audiovisual work, that seems to reduce both aural and visual material to one thing, which is then used as material to craft a unified work that consists of aural and visual material. What I love about this piece, is its incredible sense of structure and development with visual and aural elements evolving over time into a variety of similar and dissimilar transformations - really e…

I was lucky to be involved in the creation of the visual music visuals for a collaborative work entitled "Silk Chroma". Working as a collaborative team to create this work was a wonderful experience. The Irish composer Linda Buckley was a pleasure to work with and the electro-acoustic composition that she composed is beautiful. Linda and I worked closely together to realise the ideas for the work, interestingly Linda described much of the music she would like to create in visual terms that really appealed to me and inspired the visuals. Similarly some visuals and still images that I created inspired sounds and timbres for Linda. Good stuff. Silk Chroma is an audio-visual work that is inspired by the novella Silk by Alessandro Baricco as a conceptual f…

{R}ake A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video Event: Thurs April 22 - 8pm Issue Project Room in The Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street (corner 3rd Avenue) 3rd Floor Park Slope, Brooklyn 718 330-0313 This Month's A/V: Set 1 - Giles Hendrix - Video Set 1 - Richard Lainhart - Music Set 2 - Kamran Sadeghi - A/V Set 3 - Bradford Reed - Music Set 3 - Ursula Scherrer - Video This Month's Message: {R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways. Link for more information on this event More Info:…

Joe Hyde's project Zeotrope 1998 "explores issues around the relationship between people and machines, and questions perceptions of the 'perfection' of technology. It is about use and misuse; abuse, breakdown. " View video and info at: http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/video/zoetrope/ Joseph Hyde's website provides documentation, video clips and audio clips of his projects and collaborations. His work combines media into audiovisual works - electroacoustic music and video, interactive projects etc. He uses digital and electronic media to make sonic and multimedia works, installations and performances. Areas of exploration in his work are the complex interaction of abstract sound and image, and the integration of interactive technology into li…