Visual Music

Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons on vimeo http://vimeo.com/31319154 I previously posted an excerpt from the stunning rheo: 5 from the youtube website.  Ryoichi Kurokawa's vimeo channel is worth checking out and the wonderful rheo: 5 is on that. This is a beautiful work, and there is something about odd numbers.  The arrangement into 5 screens is really interesting, it reminds me also of the earlier work Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes - again an arrangement of an odd number of screens, this time 3, it also deals with horizon. I did a short blog post on my other blog - sounding visual blog on Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes, recently reshown. see: http://soundingvisual.blogspot.com/2012/01/roy-lichtensteins-three-landscapes.html Excerpt Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons "Audiovisual installation2010 5 HD displays | 5ch multi sound Duration: 08'00" Loop" rheo: 5 horizons from RYOICHI KUROKAWA on Vimeo . Website: http://www...

Jean Detheux - "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." what a great title - posting latest news on Jean Detheux's visual music work "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." is a film in 6 movements, based on related texts of E. E. Cummings that focus on themes of nature and the cycle of life. The sonic material, created by Mikel Kuehn mikelkuehn.com/, is derived from manipulated environmental sounds and the recitation of Cummings texts by soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn. The images were created first (the idea was to create a life in 4 parts, followed by a "recollection" of that life, as if at the moment of death, in the 5th and final movement). The sonic material came later and added an in-between part, visually blank, thus bringing the total to 6 movements." [The work with be presented at The Thirteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Symposium 2012 Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New Lon...

Jt Root, music-visualist and VJ known as Aeonchild, works out of Boulder, Colorado as a Production Designer and Live VJ Performer. Recently has created a visualist piece - The Aeonchild Visualist Project, a commissioned work by Ballet Nouveau Colorado's production of "Love in the Digital Age". source:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeonchild/6820176415/in/photostream I am very taken with the term 'visualist' or 'music-visualist' that Aeonchild uses to describe his process of interpreting music, here is a quote from his website explaining this term. "Aeonchild’s work re-interprets music into a visual language, spinning cosmic messages with symmetrical precision. Through the use of motion graphics, video, light and color, he mixes futuristic visions with ancient symbols of sacred geometry. The result is a visceral experience that fuses sight and sound while teasing the senses with visible rhythms." Source:  http://aeonchild.com/about/ ...

Daniel Palacios - Waves "A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element... But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations." Source: http://danielpalacios.info/en/waves Vimeo Link Waves from Daniel Palacios on Vimeo . Vimeo Description of video documentation "Waves' utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installati...

As part of the Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time Festival,  a programme on Colour Music is being shown on 24th February, 2012 Colour Music Recollections De Balie Friday 24 February 17:00 - 18:30 "A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles Dockum on his ‘Mobilcolor’ instrument, the first recreation of Oskar Fischinger‘s multi-projector shows and a rare screening of documentation of the 1968 recreation by Kurt Schwerdtfeger of the very first light experiments at the Bauhaus. This programme will mark the launch of the posthumous publication of the book The Academy of the Senses, Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education by Frans Evers, one of the founders of both the Sonic Acts festival and the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. The programme will be introduced by Joost Rekveld . This programme has been made possible with the kind support of ...

Soundmachines - an instrument for performing electronic music "Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer. The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen New Beetle stand at the IAA motor show in late Summer 2011. In cooperation with the sounddesigner/ producer Yannick Labbé of TRICKSKI fame, we developed three unique discs, each controlling one track of an Ableton Live Set exclusively made for the Event. The show was supported by a set of realtime generated visuals, running on a 25m wide LED wall." source:  http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines Vimeo demonstration see also:  http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/soundmachines-objects-sound/

Very interesting projects - book, CD, research by Konstantin Zadorozhnikov on cimatics/cymatics and music.  Konstantin Zadorozhnikov composes music according to i-ching, and used cymatics to demonstrate the beautiful patterns this creates.  However, this kind of music and cymatics is used in a muscial feng sui to provide a type of healing in a home. "Based on his discoveries, he created the project musical matrix, which gained fame through a series of "Symphony of Change", executable "Konstantin Magical Mystery Orchestra". This music is unusual is the fact that mathematically corresponds exactly to the universal matrix of I-Ching, which is called "Chinese Bible" and "Ancient computer. Scientifically proven and compliance of the matrix system of genetic coding. Creating a "musical mandalas - the most important way of musical Fee Shui. Using the work "Symphony of Change" is not necessary to carry out complex calculations to spe...

Scott Snibbe a media artist, filmmaker and researcher in interactivity and an artist whose work embraces visual music approaches, has just released a really interesting application for the iPad, whereby an individual or a networked group of individuals can create visual music type animations together, using a responsive animation with touch. The animations look very beautiful, are customisable and look like a lot of fun to experiment with or to perform with? Link to MotionPhone App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motionphone-hd/id373089458?mt=8usg=AFQjCNGrpboR5cOaBX_E-QXl6GW0uh8Gtw Information about MotionPhone on Scott's website: http://www.snibbe.com/blog/2012/02/03/motionphone/ The really interesting aspect of this project/application is that it is based on Scott's original development of Motion Phone 23 years ago in 1995, where he developed a networked version using Silicon Graphics workstations and this very version was seen by many contemporary interac...

Pedro Mari/ Defetto Very beautiful harmonious colour - very musical, like the harmonics available in a music tone. These images are as beautiful still as they are in motion. source image:  http://www.defetto.com/1117/14230/works/iiiii-aii-panta-rhei see also flickr: flickr.com/photos/defetto/sets/72157602683025565/ "Everything is subject to change. The harmony of things is contained in their perennial change. This change is not random or chaotic; it is governed by precise rhythms. πάντα ῥει is an eternal flow, constantly evolving, never equal to himself." source:  http://www.defetto.com/1117/14230/works/iiiii-aii-panta-rhei Vimeo embed (silent) πάντα ῥει from defetto on Vimeo . Website:   http://www.defetto.com/ vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/defetto

Visual artist - Video artist - Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński hypnotic neon like imagery - a kind of beat video - forwards, backwards motion, light filled colour.  Colour with a hint of volume, graphical figures with a slight sense of depth.  Lovely (I am in a one word, adjective type description mode these days!) Awake Awake from Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński on Vimeo . Minimal music vs minimal visualisation. Music: Emptyset - Awake Picture: Mikołaj Pasiński http://vimeo.com/12325755

Arístides García Staub Leben - Live reactive environment This is quite incredible - in its drama, and visual impact and performance.  Staub Leben Vimeo Link http://vimeo.com/34756702   Staub Leben from lasal on Vimeo . Credits for project on vimeo link  "UdK Berlin, Intermediales Bewegungslabor. Campus-Kollision, Januar 2012, HZT-Uferstudios. Prof. Nik Haffner: Projektleitung. Arístides García: Projektleitung, Konzept, Programmierung. Nikola Pieper: Technische Leitung. Körper: Emilia Pfohl, Marine Bertrand, Hanne Müller, Marieke Hohberge, Swann Nowak. Juan Gabriel Harcha : Tanzer. Hannes Mück : Kamera." Arístides García - website link http://aristidesgarcia.tumblr.com/works

Richard Lainhart's audio visual work I have been a fan of, ever since I encountered one of my favourite audio visual works, Pneuma.  I have already blogged about this work previously.  I am very saddened to hear that Richard died on the 30th December, 2011.  So as a tribute to him and his wonderful piece Pneuma, I am reposting it here and am very saddened to hear this news. PNEUMA - Richard Lainhart http://vimeo.com/1014353 Pneuma from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo . "Pneuma" is based on growth patterns generated by celluar automata software, processed in Adobe After Effects to create constantly changing structures ranging from the crystalline to the architectural. The soundtrack is a live improvisation on the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer, controlled by the Haken Audio Continuum Fingerboard fretless keyboard controller. This HD version was rendered in May, 2008. Warning: "Pneuma" displays an intense, periodic flicker pattern that some may ...

Call for Submissions: VIDEODROME 2012 April 01 / 2012 Call for Submissions: VIDEODROME 2012 at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Deadline: April 1st 2012 WEBSITE: http://www.dropframevideo.com/news.html Now accepting submissions of A/V works under 5 mins. VIDEODROME is Toronto's foremost event for Visual Music and A/V culture since 2004. Visual Music is video and audio composition made from video edits, simultaneously video AND music where picture matches sound, cut for cut, beat for beat, rhythmic media work where sound and image are equally dominant. See examples here: http://www.dropframevideo.com/videos.html Based on the Cronenberg concept, VIDEODROME is an exercise in televisionary excess and sensory overload, video screening as party and vice-versa, in the words of dropFRAMEvideo: "bridging the gaps between the sofa, the club, and the gallery." Works must be complete and received by April 1st by post at 193 Augusta, Toronto, ON, M5T 2L4...

CTM.12 – SPECTRAL "// 30 January – 5 February 2012 // Various venues, Berlin With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January to 5 February 2012 . As always, CTM runs parallel to and in cooperation with Berlin’s festival for art and digital culture, transmediale, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskirche, Gretchen, Kater Holzig and Horst Krzbrg, a discourse series developed in collaboration with the philosopher, psycho-historian and author Andreas L. Hofbauer will address the festival’s theme by pursuing questions con...

Jean Piché OCÉANES, 2010/2011 Exploring parallels between image and music with particle generated image and granular synthesis generated sound - incredibly beautifully composed. 'A videomusic work by Jean Piché, 'exploring the aesthetic potential of particle based computer generated imagery. Analogous to granular sound processing, particle synthesis allows for the creation and control of complex materials using an large number of very small components. Sound and image coordination does not explicitely use synchresis as a discursive device but aims for an elevated relation based on metaphor and emotional detachment, as if contemplating a field of images from a distant perspective.' source: http://vimeo.com/25933560 view on vimeo OCÉANES from Jean Piché on Vimeo .

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...