Visual Music

Featured on the amazing website - Creative Applications Net (CAN) http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/dedalo-an-instrument-by-quayola-sinigaglia-to-see-the-sound/ Dedalo - An instrument by Quayola & Natan Sinigaglia to 'see' the sound "Developed as a collaboration between Quayola & Sinigaglia, Dedalo is a collection of custom developed vvvv engines (and a toolkit) to generate, exchange and map data between a series of graphics modules and a rendering engine used for live performance and audiovisual concerts... The project began as a collaboration in 2010 with the development of software called  Partitura . The aim was to create an instrument for performance that would allow visualisation of sound in realtime... Dedalo is built…

"rain is a minimalistic audio visual composition you can play yourself" The iphone application was created by Rainer Kohlberger , a Berlin based freelance visual artist and designer. rain documentation website http://kohlberger.net/rain credits rain was created by rainer kohlberger 2010. sound samples by max kickinger. follow twitter.com/khlrqa vimeo http://vimeo.com/10557321 You can view more work by Rainer on his website http://kohlberger.net/

I have just come across this most interesting installation research project to be shortly exhibited in paris. There is a lot of imagery that uses software generative processes to create "scripted" imagery - these images are always incredibly beautiful, and ordered displaying the most wonderful 'ordered' patterns that would be very hard to realise/create by hand processes. When these patterns are tied up to audio processes, then the most incredible synergy seems to take place. This project is a very physical realisation of both scripted animation and an interactive sonar field. What caught my eye was the imagery and the tight connection with sound. (Author comment) "b iot(h)ing - Invisibles is an interactive installation exhibited at the Pra…

Computer Baroque - curated by Richard Wright. online exhibition from 14 April to 14 July 2009 "Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright. Computer Baroque is a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the late eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology... The Computer Baroque programme screened at Tate Modern on 20 March 2009; the majority of those works are now showing here from 14 April to 14 July 2009. Programme notes by curator Richard Wright." See: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_b…

Richard Baily's incredible images and animations are in quicktime video format on the webstie Image Savant. The colours and forms that he has created are incredible. Richard provided animations for several hollywood films and sadly died in 2006. Many of his images can be seen on the http://www.imagesavant.com/ website. Link to page with video clips: http://www.imagesavant.com/QT.html The center for Visual Music provide an excellent memoriam to him and his work http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Baily.htm

Article: Say it with Pictures by Dennis H. Miller for Electronic Musician Sep 1, 2008 Really informative article by Dennis H. Miller on tools (several free) that can convert images to sound and one that converts sound to images.  Written by Miller for Electronic Musician. See:  http://emusician.com/software/say-with-pictures/index.html

frame from Erev Shel Shoshanim youtube video Erev Shel Shoshanim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOPB2qptdw Ned Resnikoff - Illustrated, music movies Ned Resnikoff creates incredible illustrated music movies with his own software program Vizzy. The images for the movies are mathematical representations of audio data. Check out his movies on his website and on youtube. Ned is a musician who has combined his interests in music and mathematics by applying wavelet filters to audio analysis. He works on software tools to make sound and music something we can see, understand, and modify in new ways. More information and contact details and video clips on his website Website: http://nedwaves.com/ You Tube Videos of the following recent movies : Gymnopedies: http://www.yo…

Božidar Svetek, "a private researcher and video artist, has since 1979 been exclusively concentrating on the connection of music, painting and technics, i.e., the linking of sound and picture. With the onset of modern computer technology, he transfers such »classic« experience into a new medium. In 1996 he took out a patent for a procedure of visualizing a sound event, so that by the help of a new instrument, he »plays« the colour contents of each music work. The new instrument offers a new post-productive expressive form to music, which is accessible to every individual. What is achieved by this is a film quality that opens new concepts and aesthetic extensions united in two human immanences, in a united duration frame of time and space. All the so far accompli…

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…