Visual Music

"Otolab was founded in 2001 in Milan by an affinity group of musicians, djs, vjs, videoartists, videomakers, web designers, graphic designers and architects joined to go through a common path in the field of the electronic music and audiovisual research. The projects are developed through lab sessions, seminars and live performance according to the principles of brainstorming and mutual support, free circulation of knowledge and experimentation." See the otolab vimeo video channel for examples of their audiovisual works and performances http://www.otolab.net/ http://www.vimeo.com/otolab Selection of audiovisual works project descriptions Op7 otolab, op7 (demo) from otolab on Vimeo . otolab 2007 --audio: sn, dies_, mud, scrub, maikko, tonylight --video: mud…

I am hoping to better gather together essays and articles on visual music and visual music relevant topics in this blog.  I have only recently realised that blogger provides a tag facility, and so posts can be accessed via the tags.  A few such tags I wish to try to provide more posts for is the tags: essay , article , research , writing .  I have come across a lot of good writing - online or otherwise, so I am probably really doing this for myself, so I can quickly get access to them again.   CVM and iotaCenter  based in Los Angeles, US provide really good resources and links to excellent resources.  Check them out for more up to date and extensive links. If you have a link to an excellent essay, piece of writing or resource, I would love to put it in this blog, if y…

Excellent experimental Music and Video Resource run by Spenayoung. http://newmusicresource.blogspot.com/

Visual Music Marathon: Musical Fine Art Animation Benchmark by Jean Detheux Excellent article by Jean Detheux, May 24th, 2007 discussing the Visual Music Marathon Event held on April 28th, 2007 in Boston. 13 pages of excellent comments and discussion, with a selection of videoclips from the event online, illustrated with the article. http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3295&page=1

ARTICLE: " On Curating Recent Abstract Visual Music " by Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer © Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer , 2006-08. Authored for The New York Digital Salon's Abstract Visual Music catalog and website. Slight revision, 2008.

Colour Music by Niels Hutchison

Visual Music Exhibition - Hirshhorn Museum 2005 Documentation Website (great resource) http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/ The catalogue for the Visual Music Exhibition can be purchased at Amazon. This book is an excellent resource and introduction to Visual Music. Product Description from Amazon "The influence of music on the development of abstract and mixed-media visual art forms from the early twentieth century to the present day. This ground-breaking new book and the exhibition it accompanies trace the history of a revolutionary idea: that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. Over the past one hundred years some of the most adventurous modern and contemporary artists have explored unorthodox means to invent a kinetic, non-re…

tonecolor - resource in close connections between music and visual arts. "Tonecolor is a resource for those interested in the close connections between music and visual arts. Included are artist/musician listings and articles on tools and ideas regarding the audio/visual connection." http://www.imaja.com/as/tonecolor/ Article: Generative Art: An exploration of meaning "One might define generative art as art where the main technique of development within a piece or series of pieces is an evolutionary process, like biological or physical evolution, or the evolution of ideas. This might mean that the intent of the work is to make evolution the primary message. Evolution involves a complex process of development with many possible influences. Much of art inv…

Media Art History This is an excellent resource. Re:Live Media Art History organises a biannual confernence on the histories of media art, science and technology. The website keeps a record of the conferences. The MediaArtHistoriesArchive - documents and hosts a" digital repository of scholarship examining the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology! Our collections are currently being fleshed out and added to. Archive Goals :: world wide access - create a place for classic texts, cross-pollinated, cutting-edge scholarship - items submitted and regulated by authors - rich metadata MAHArchive connects disciplines which devote research efforts to Media Art, from art history, through film, theater, media and cultural studies, to psychology, informati…

The Scientific Graphics Project The Geometry hierarchy treats subjects in differential geometry, primarily related to surfaces, from a pure mathematics perspective. The Scientific Graphics Project http://archive.msri.org/about/sgp/SGP/index.html see also with left side index:  http://archive.msri.org/about/sgp/jim/geom/index.html Contributors Several people have contributed to the research represented here on the Scientific Graphic Project website. The original design of this site was by James T. Hoffman. David Hoffman James T. Hoffman Matthias Weber Martin Trazet Meinhard Wohlgemuth Eric Boix Michael Callahan Ed Thayer Fusheng Wei

Oscillation - Addressing issues for designing a new work for saxophonist and digital media - Collaboration - 3D animation, saxophone, real-time sound processing, motion capture data Collaboration between Franziska Schroeder, Pedro Rebelo, Peter Nelson "We address issues raised in designing a new work for saxophonist and digital media involving 3D motion capture technology. A saxophonist's kinaesthetics are recorded with a 3D motion capture system, and used as control data in the real-time processing of sound and 3D visuals. We address current gesture research and propose an extension to current gesture taxonomies. Linguistics have been taken as a basis for analysis of communication in musical processes, and serve as a fundamental reference in our discussion. …