Visual Music

Dina Riccò & Maria José de Cordoba (edited by), "MuVi. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music" Edizioni Poli.design, Milano, 2007 [book+DVD] MuVi , an acronym for Musica Visiva (“Visual Music”), an event of the Second International Conference "Synaesthesia: Science & Art" (from April 28th to May 1st 2007, Granada, Spain), is a collection of kinetic visual, audio-visual or interactive works that spring from music by artists, musicians, designers and performers. This catalogue collects the works of the 23 participants that answered the call for kinetic works. The attached DVD includes 40 movies, for a 150 minute video content. The book is for sale here: http://www.hoepli.it/titoli.asp?editore=POLI.+DESIGN Dina Riccò Politecnico di Milano - Facoltà del Design Dipartimento INDACO via Durando 38/a - 20158 Milano - ITALY http://www.sinestesie.it

The Visual Music Marathon Event took place yesterday, 28 April 2007 at the Egan Research Center, 120 Forsyth Street, Northeastern University, MA 02115 , Boston. What an amazing show of incredibly beautiful and stunning visuals and music. Organised by Dennis Miller. This was an event worth seeing!!! - more here soon. Meanwhile, previews of some of the work that was shown is online at: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html PREVIEW ANIMATION from Visual Music Marathon

The Visual Music Marathon Event took place yesterday at the Egan Research Center, 120 Forsyth Street, Northeastern University, MA 02115 , Boston. What an amazing show of incredibly beautiful and stunning visuals and music. Organised by Dennis Miller. This was an event worth seeing!!! - more here soon. Meanwhile, previews of some of the work that was shown is online at: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html

"Audio Space is a 3D augmented aural space. A user wearing a headset can leave messages at any point within the room and hear all the sounds left by everyone before them spatialised as if the people were really still there. It has been exhibited at ICHIM 05 in Paris and at the 2006 Eyebeam Summer Exhibition in New York." http://muonics.net/site_docs/work.php?id=15 "superimposes a dense sonic environment onto a completely empty physical space and allows the participant to explore and shape this seemingly hidden world of sound. " http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/journal/archives/2006/07/the_making_of_t.html

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/ Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication. One of their events is: "The Graffiti Research Lab will be in Rotterdam from February 7th through the 10th (2007). We’re taking control of the Renzo Piano KPN Telecom Building and turning the Kop Van Zuid into the People’s Revolutionary Green Laser Light District. We are turning the 37 x 72 meter screen into a place to display your uncurated animations and graphics"

"The Heart Chamber Orchestra - HCO - is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo TERMINALBEACH. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.HCO forms a structure where music literally "comes from the heart". "the musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. a computer monitors & analyzes the state of these 12 hearts in real time. the acquired information is used to compose a musical score with the aid of computer software. it is a living score dependent on the state of the hearts." http://www.heartchamberorchestra.org/project.html

http://levitated.net/exhibit/darkside/ Moonlight is an interactive installation of the visualization of the first movement of Beethoven's No.14 Sonata.

http://www.colorofmysound.com/ Assign colors to songs at the free music promotion community, ColorOfMySound.com " Synaesthesia is the mixing of the senses. Those affected by it hear colors, see sounds, and taste tactile sensations. When the two senses involved are sound and color, this phenomenon is no longer limited to synaesthetes: anyone, given a sound and time for contemplation, can ascribe color to that sound. Often, these connections between sound and color will overlap from person to person. Color Of My Sound is an informal experiment to test that hypothesis. First, choose a sound category . Then, after listening, choose the color to which you are most strongly drawn. Give us your thoughts. Then, you can see how others voted for that particular sound. "

http://tones.wolfram.com/ "WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. " This is really fun to play with....!!! Amazing composition controls in terms of a huge variety of musical scales

http://creativelab.kiev.ua/eng/theory/graphics/graphics_eng.htm Interesinting work on transforming music intervals into a graphic image. Other project is the correspondence of sound to colour

http://turbulence.org/Works/graphtheory/ Graph Theory enables you to navigate among 61 short, looping musical gragments to explore a composition for solo violin. Jason Freeman - concept, music programming Patricia Reed - design Maja Ceran - violin

http://unlekker.net/proj/illuminCTM2007/ "Realtime projection, still images for print. Java + Processing w/ OpenGL. " Marius Watz 2007

http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/ "CODE & FORM is a blog supporting the coding and teaching activities of Marius Watz . It contains documentation of workshops, as well as code for various projects. Email tips about relevant links or pieces of code to marius-at-unlekker-net."

" Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience. " See website: http://www.jamespatten.com/audiopad/

http://www.warmcircuit.com/web/artist.php?artist_id=1 Modified Toy Orchestra makes music from abandoned toys. They are a collection of abandoned and reconstructed Childrens electronic toys, conducted by a selection of musicians. See their myspace website :

http://www.futureofsound.org/9.htm Artist Luciana Haill uses medical electroencephalogram, or EEG, monitors embedded in a Bluetooth-enabled sweatband to record the activity of her frontal lobes, then beams the data to a computer that plays it back as song. Source: Make Beautiful Brain Music article in wired magazine

http://www.futuresonic.com/07/2007_submissions.html Futurevisual Call For Projects. Manchester, UK "In 2007 we are inviting submissions of projects at the cutting edge of immersive sound and image. " Deadline: Thursday 15th February 2007.

James Auger-Loizeau

Networked Performance Blog

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.

Bruce Naumann - Stamping in the Studio (excerpt)

Bruce Naumann - Stamping in the Studio (excerpt)

CALL FOR VISUAL MUSIC WORKS Visual Music: Fine art animation, video or film in which the visual elements are informed by musical processes. Call for Submissions Deadline: (postmarked) January 15th, 2007 "Northeastern University is pleased to announce a call for work for the 2007 Visual Music Marathon, to be held on April 28th, 2007 as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. The Marathon will include new and historic works that reflect the theme of the event. Approximately thirty minutes of programming will be selected for national broadcast on the Harmony Channel, available to subscribers of digital cable on the Comcast and Cox networks. (The Harmony Channel will negotiate individual fees with selected artists.)" Please see the site for more information on guidelines and a submission form: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/ Visual Music Marathon - April 28, 2007 - Boston Cyberarts Festival. CALL FOR WORKS

Video and Music Performers (VAMP) at the Tate Britain - December 1st, 2006

Peter Donebauer - The Videokalos Colour Synthesiser. Performance by Peter Donebauer at Tate Britain. Video and Music Performers (VAMP) Friday 1 December 2006, 20.00-21.00 See Tate Britain website for more information http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/musicperform/7149.htm