Visual Music

“Creativity Shared” is the theme of the next SOUND/IMAGE festival in the University of Greenwich, London, UK  A festival curated by the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre.  Dates: 9-12 November 2023  Submission Deadline: 25 August 2023 University of Greenwich, London, UK  SOUND/IMAGE 2023 - Call for works - web page Press Release: "This festival brings together artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.   To celebrate the publication of a new book on sonic creativity “Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music” and the launch of our new creative practice research facilities the “Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies” this 2023 edition of the festival invit…

2020 marks the fifth year of the SOUND/IMAGE colloquium held at University of Greenwich, London. For 2020, the colloquium is celebrating the publication of an edited volume, featuring artists and academics who have participated in the first years of the conference.   Sound Image Exhibition - University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street Building The book reference is: KNIGHT-HILL, A (2021) Sound & Image: Aesthetics and Practices. Routledge: New York.  https://www.routledge.com/Sound-and-Image-Aesthetics-and-Practices/Knight-Hill/p/book/9780367271466 To celebrate the achievements and continuing success of the SOUND/IMAGE conference, they have hosted an exhibition in the Project Space at the University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street Building The exhibition featured audio…

The Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices book edited by Andrew Knight-Hill is available to pre-order on the Routledge website and on Amazon.  It is available in April.  A Focal Press/Routledge publication and part of the Sound Design Series. Publisher's Description  Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices, applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both the aesthetics and practices that underpin the audiovisual. Contributions draw upon established discourses in electroacoustic music, media art history, film studies, critical theory and dance; framing and critiquing these arguments within the context of diverse audiovisual practices. The …

I have been coming across Andrew Hill's name in relation to visual music quite frequently recently. An up and coming artist and researcher in the audio-visual artwork genre. Flux is quite beautiful in its sound and image relationships - ordered, synaesthetic, gorgeous. More info on Andrew Hill "Andrew Hill is a composer from the UK. He studied electroacoustic music and music technology at Keele and De Montfort Universities electing to focus his studies upon audio-visual composition. He is currently conducting PhD research investigating audience reception of electroacoustic audio-visual artworks with Leigh Landy and Bret Battey at De Montfort University." Source: http://vimeo.com/andrewhill Flux Flux from Andrew Hill on Vimeo . "An …

Filter Magazine Issue 66 / Synchresis Explored: Australian Sound Artists working at the spontaneous weld between sounds and image. December 2007. http://filter.anat.org.au/category/issue-66/ Articles: Monster and Maps by Mitchell Whitelaw Synchresis DVD "The Synchresis DVD, curated by Mitchell Whitelaw brought together ten Australian sound artists: Gordon Monro , Wade Marynowsky , Peter Newman , Jean Poole , BotBorg, Julian Oliver & Steven Pickles, Robin Fox, Andrew Gadow and Abject Leader. 3000 copies were circulated in Filter Issue 66 nationally and internationally and the DVD was launched at the Chauvel Cinema Sydney with live performances by Robin Fox, Peter Newman and Ian Andrews." http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/synchresis/ …

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 …

"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 …