Visual Music

Check out these amazing audio visual performances with live musicians. The music in this performance I think is really beautiful. Great work. TIME PAINTING by AKITOSENGOKU Collaborate with Hugues Vincent, Frantz Loriot & ryotaro at "Velvet Moon vol.38" -music, dance & Performance night!- October 19, 2011 UrBANGUILD, Kyoto, Japan Hugues Vincent, Frantz Loriot, ryotaro & AKITO SENGOKU Live at "Velvet Moon vol.38" UrBANGUILD, Kyoto from AKITO SENGOKU on Vimeo .

Electroluminesence an audiovisual composition composed by Sharon Phelan in 2009 is a very hypnotic and beautiful audio visual piece with a very stylised colour scheme and motion palette.  Sharon composed the music to the visuals, a kind of deep seeing and hearing.  I saw this again yesterday evening in the ATRL lab, Trinity College, Dublin and it was quite stunning aurally and visually in such a great setting, with high quality projection and audio. Electroluminescence from Sharon Phelan on Vimeo . "Audiovisual composition consisting of video feedback. The music and visuals were informed by each other in an exploration of emergent forms. Slight changes to certain parameters lead to complex results."

This piece is quite incredible in the patterns and sense of depth and dimension.  It is really beautiful.  Semiconductors film 200 Nanowebbers was really brilliant too, but this new work form 2011, is equally as good.  Great work semiconductor 20 Hz - A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. '0 5.00 minutes / HD / 201 1 HD single channel and HD 3D single channel . A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.' "20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually a...

Four Senses Concert, 2002 This important concert that took place in 2002 in the Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand.  The four senses concert were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks (UK). website:  link "The ‘Four Senses’ 1999, 2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences. The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of breathing in, and of visualizing music. Tony Brooks utilised sensors, software and projectors to create an interactive system capturing movement from the orchestra and translating it into painting with col...

Silk Chroma a visual music piece that I created in collaboration with the Irish Composer Linda Buckley and closely worked also with Dermot Furlong and Gavin Kearney at the end of 2010 has won an honouring prize at the forthcoming Visual Music Award 2011. I am totally delighted!   Visit website - Visual Music Award 2011 Visual Music Award @ Cocoon Club, Frankfurt Germany Photographs of the event have been put up by the organisers on their facebook page. Some photographs of Silk Chroma have been put on this page...what a stunning venue the Cocoon Club. Visual Music Award Facebook Page -  https://www.facebook.com/VisualMusicAward Silk Chroma can be seen on vimeo Silk Chroma from Silk Chroma on Vimeo . Silk Chroma - the silent version is also showing at the Expanded Abstraction Exhibition, LACMA Museum's Stark Bar,  Los Angeles as part of a curated show by the Center for Visual Music, this exhibition will continue until late January 2012 http://www...

FOLDS Robert Seidel Lindenau Museum, Altenburg / Germany 18.6.ˆ14.8.2011 FOLDS  is a 2-channel video installation with projections on 19th century plaster casts of Kladeos, Kephissos, Belvedere Torso, Seer and the Three Goddesses from the  Bernhard August von Lindenau Collection . It connects to the fragmentary plaster casts, makes them flow with bygone colors, clothes them and wakes them for a moment then to be stored as into the sediment of oblivion. Documentation of the installation Vimeo // http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds   Youtube // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmg3L0ai5Uo   Web // http://www.robertseidel.com/folds.225.0.html Catalog // http://www.lindenau-museum.de/index.php?id=96 PR // http://robertseidel.com/folds_lindenau-museum_robert-seidel.pdf   Websites : Studio Robert Seidel http://www.robertseidel.com Robert Seidel Vimeo Channel http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds View Folds Documentation on Vimeo fold...

Yan Breuleux 's beautiful works are really worth checking out. Based in Montreal, both teaching in the faculty of Music at the University of Montreal and completing a Phd, he has accumulated a large portfolio of works that are documented clearly on his website. Website: http://www.ybx.ca/ Yan Breuleux's animations are quite beautiful and some of their presentations and installations are quite breathtaking. He collaborates with musicians and composers and creates pieces for multi-screen, panoramic and hemispheric presentations. He is interested in the influence of architecture in audio visual performance and some of these projects are incredible in their scale and drama. An example project has been documented on flickr. "En préparation de la diffusion de La Tempête pour écran vertical. Une Nuit en Galilée spectacles Samedi 23 Juillet à 20:00" Flickr link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yanbreuleux/sets/72157627253334252/with/5963100991/ PURFORM Yan Breule...

Jane Cassidy's new visual music piece - Square Ball is an installation piece and its inaugural presentation took place in Dublin, in August 2011 as part of the Glitch Festival 2011 organised by MART. This was a really beautiful and clever installation that really is something that needs to be seen and sensed, as an audience member one has to face the projector as the most amazing layers of imagery and patterns unfold with great connections to the music. Video excerpt online courtesy of Red Rua Visit Jane's Blog http://janecassidy.net/

Christina McPhee's three channel video triptych, Bird of Paradise (Christina McPhee 2011) is a stunning silent visual music work, with such visual harmony and balance - a very beautiful work. Bird of Paradise three channels / 10 minutes / HD video /silent / 2011 bird of paradise / channel three from Christina McPhee on Vimeo . It will premiere in a program curated by the Center for Visual Music at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), in late July. The program will screen at LACMA through January 2012. Location: Stark Bar, central plaza (new design by Renzo Piano), LACMA. Check out many of Christina's work on her vimeo channel (to date 39 uploaded) http://vimeo.com/christinamcphee/videos Christina's website: http://www.christinamcphee.net/ About Christina "Christina McPhee’s visual art, media and writings consider site as landscape and language. She develops film and media works that montage remote landscape footage at high – tech energy inst...

Opening late July,2011, Los Angeles: Expanded Abstraction : A special 3-screen program from CVM featuring Scott Draves' Generation 244, plus work by Robert Seidel, Baerbel Neubauer, Christina McPhee, Maura McDonnell and Charles Dockum. Curated by Cindy Keefer. LA County Museum of Art, central plaza, Stark Bar. On view beginning July 28, evenings through January, 2012. Images courtesy Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep. PREVIEW of McPhee's Bird of Paradise video triptych. (re posted from CVM events page: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm OPENING NIGHT - Thursday, July 28 Please join CVM at LACMA at Stark Bar - Thursday, July 28 CVM's new *Expanded Abstraction* 3-screen program begins in LACMA's Stark Bar (central plaza, next to main entrance) at 8 pm...that's the same night as Marclay's THE CLOCK 24 hour screening in Bing Theatre...so please join us while taking a break from The CLOCK, as Stark Bar will be open until 2am screening the C...

Fast Forward: Conversations with machines From camera obscura to cybernetics: filmmaker Joost Rekveld outlines experimental cinema from its hidden past to a distant future. By Joost Rekveld Essay Quote from essay "In this essay I want to develop my thoughts about possible futures for what is now referred to as experimental cinema, inspired by some of the ideas behind expanded cinema. Experimental cinema is a marginal cinema, not in the sense that its purpose is to remain obscure forever, but in the sense that those filmmakers are called experimental who challenge the categories of mainstream cinema. These same artists often cross over from or into other disciplines, so in order not to lose ourselves in speculations concerning the future of everything, we will have to rewind until we find a starting point from which we can can try and extrapolate. " View online at: http://preview.instantcinema.org/essays/852/Fast-Forward-Conversations-with-machines Joost Rekve...

GENERATION Z RUSSIAN PIONEERS OF SOUND ART AND MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY IN 1910-1930 June 9 - July 20, 2011 OSA Archivum and the authors of GENERATION Z exhibition cordially invite you to the opening which will take place on 9th of June at 6:00 p.m. The exhibition will run at OSA Archivum, Budapest from June 9 till July 20, 2011.  ADDRESS: 1051 BUDAPEST, ARANY J. U. 32. http://www.osaarchivum.org/ exhibition details at http://bit.ly/lSXejp Variophone, theremin terpsitone, rhythmicon, emiriton, ekvodin, graphical sound – just to mention a few of the amazing innovations of the beginning of the 20th century in Soviet Russia, a country and time turbulent with revolutions, wars and totalitarian dictatorship. While the history of Russian post-revolutionary avant-garde art and music is fairly well documented, the inventions and discoveries, names and fates of researchers of sound, creators of musical machines and noise orchestras, founders of new musical technologies have been larg...

Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) Major Painting Exhibition at the Peyton Wright Gallery - Santa Fe, New Mexico Opening July 2011 Oskar Fischinger - Layers of Sound Oskar Fischinger's paintings are being exhibited at the art dealers gallery - Peyton Wright Gallery.  These paintings are a real treat to view.  Peyton Wright Gallery have put many of Oskar Fischinger's paintings online, many of these have probably not been seen before, as they have not been put online before. Some of these paintings have strong musical themes.  There are several that I really like and a beautiful one for me is, Layers of Sound.  However, there are many others and Fischinger's very distinct artistic and aesthetic style is really apparent.  A great treat to be able to view these paintings online via the Peyton Wright Gallery, and if you are lucky enough to be near Sante Fe, a treat to see in reality. View Paintings online at: http://www.peytonwright.com/art/main.php?g2_itemId=9...

"'Raumlichtmusik' - Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments." Essay by Cindy Keefer (Director Center for Visual Music ) "Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Creative Data Special Issue. Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, and MIT Press. October 2009." This is an important historical visual music essay on Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson's early experiments in creating abstract cinema for immersive projection environments. It traces the origins in their work of what is more common today - the immersive multimedia environment. Information about plans Fischinger had to present a multimedia performance for the Farblichtmusik shows (started by László) has been researched and documented in this essay and is very exciting information to check out for the scholar interested in accurately tracing the origins of visual music and in particular, its links to contemporary multimedia performance. The vorte...

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 audiovisual piece inspired by cyclic patterns, exploring sound and image relationships." Source: http://vimeo.com/20174827 See also: http://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/AndrewHill

Call for works Understanding VISUAL Music 2011 Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies in collaboration with the Department of Music CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Montreal - Canada August 26th and 27th, 2011 Website for more information: http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca/index.html INFORMATION ABOUT CALL FOR WORK AND SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE WORKS *_DESCRIPTION_* A two-day conference focused on developing an understanding of the practice of visual music, its definition, related creative and perceptual considerations, current trends, technological innovation, and possible future directions. The event will take place on *Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th of August 2011* and will include paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and creative works presentations. We are inviting researchers to present studies that address visual music's multiple definitions and dimensions, questions around visual music aesthetics an...

Rosa Menkman's work is beautiful in how it works with glitch and artifact images in her video work. "Every technology possess its own inherent accidents. ЯOSΛ MEИKMΛN is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences." Source of quote: http://aboutrosamenkman.blogspot.com/ Radio Dada by Rosa Menkman Video: Rosa Menkman Music: Extraboy Radio Dada from Rosa Menkman on Vimeo . "The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image created by feedback (I turned a high-end camera on a screen that was showing, in real time, what I was filming, creating a feedback loop). Then I glitched the video by changing its format and subsequently exporting it into animated gifs. I (minimalistically) edited the v...

Light Dreams: Visual Music by Vibeke Sorensen Date: Mon, 05/16/2011 - 8:00pm - 9:45pm Location: CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, Stanford University, USA Event Type: Concert "a retrospective of works by the renowned visual music artist and scholar Vibeke Sorensen. The concert will include a world premiere of Green Space, a new work in stereoscopic 3D." Website with more information: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/light-dreams-visual-music-vibeke-sorensen

" MuVi3. International exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music " Palacio de los Condes de Gabia (Granada, Spain) and Almeria University 16 th -19 th of February 2012 MuVi3, invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of kinetic works to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. The event is organized by the Foundation of Artecittà (Granada), the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Granada and the University of Almeria. Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2011 Fee of submission: Free For informations: http://muvi-visualmusic.tumblr.com/ Download of the Text and Forms of the Call in: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7288487/CallMuVi3%20%2812apr11%29.zip Contact: info@sinestesie.it and info@artecitta.es

This is a very fascinating audio visual work - emulating human emotion - those of love and fear, and how wonderful this piece is. The introduction is like the audiovisual elements breathe together.... a beautiful artwork. Audiovisuelle Rauminstallation fear:love from Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien on Vimeo . "fear: love is an audiovisual installation by Gerrit Kress, which deals with the two emotions fear and love. It shows the center of human emotion: an inner core that contains the particular emotion, grown in a system of transmitting and receiving arms that allow communication with the body and mind."[google translate from German] Source: vimeo link: http://vimeo.com/23318809

CVM at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany May 11. For more information on this event, visit http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$7532 Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center for Visual Music Los Angeles, will discuss and screen work by pioneers of kinetic art and pre-digital cinema from CVM's archives... Keefer will screen work from CVM's archives including Dockum's “Mobilcolor Projections,” Bute's “Abstronics” (an early oscilloscope film), a short Bute documentary, the Fischinger “Lumigraph Film,” and more. She will discuss CVM's work with the Fischinger legacy, current preservation work, and “Raumlichtkunst,” the new restoration of his 1920s multiple-projector performances. Followed by the screening “Films Sacred and Profane” by Jordan Belson Visit: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm for more information on Center For Visual Music and visual music related events and news

"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 engrossing work from start to finish. View on vimeo "Binary Opposition" for Video and Electronics by Edgar Barroso from Edgar Barroso on Vimeo . "Binary opposition is a piece that explores the inter...

Vessel - Alba G. Corral and Jon Hopkins The visuals in this piece are just beautiful. Vessel - Jon Hopkins from Alba G. Corral on Vimeo . Collaboration between Jon Hopkins and Alba G. Corral in L.E.V. 2011 Website: Alba G. Corral "Alba G. Corral (Madrid, 1977), based in Barcelona, use the code to create visual tools to give life real-time digital abstract landscapes. Develops programming visual generative art and live performances in the live context cinema. Combines form and technique, getting narratives that create atmospheres express sensitivity and taste for color. Has come a long way always related to visual manipulations. Improvisation different atmospheres digital sound and language become abstract organic sensations in their creations take shape Processing carried out with the tool. Regularly collaborates with musicians of the Barcelona scene as Miguel Marín, Stendhal Syndrome, or Nikka Aneas Iris, co which is the audiovisual project The Space in Be...

VISUAL MUSIC PROGRAMME at 18th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, May 2011 presented a Visual Music supporting programme at the festival. http://www.itfs.de/en/ CVM (Center for Visual Music) presented two historical programs of abstract animated films by Oskar Fischinger, including preserved prints and rarely-screened films. Title of Program: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective , May 7, 2011 Cornelia and Holger Lund presented contemporary visual music Title of Programme: Visual Music: Contemporary , May 8, 2011. A programme was put together on Norman McLaren Title of Programme: The animator as musician , May 6, 2011 See: http://www.itfs.de/en/programmes/supporting-programme/visual-music.html Visit CVM Events page for up to date information on Visual Music Events http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm

Advanced Beauty - 18 Sound Sculptors - 2009 Curated by Universal Everything Soundtracks by Freefarm A DVD was created and there are links to purchase the DVD on their website. The website created to support the collection is excellent with links to the artists whose work is documented online, with video clips online on their website and on their vimeo channel, so all can be seen online which is a great resource. "Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects. The first collection is a series of audio-reactive 'video sound sculptures'. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack. The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing,...