Visual Music

"This work is the result of a chance meeting between two studies: one sound: a study by Pierre Schaeffer , the other visual: sequences shot by the artist Raymond Hains with fluted lens whose movements multiply and colorful animated graphics." google translate from website link below Link: http://www.ina.fr/fresques/artsonores/fiche-media/InaGrm00201/etude-aux-allures.html Article: Aural Vision and Non-Sense – A certain cinema… that one could call concrete on Curating the Moving Image Blog and article post A concrete cinema link

Mark Rowan-Hull - Performance Painting Mark explores 'the invigorating ephemeral qualities of visual art and the encapsulating of time in Music via performance'.  He creates and performs painting responding to music.   "In order to publicise his ideas of visualising music Mark embarked on a series of exciting performances and events involving painting live on stage responding to music by composers such as Messiaen, Scriabin, Debussy, Shostakovich and George Crumb together with Jazz and improvisation. These performances took place in a wide variety of settings including the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Festival Hall, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club. source:  http://www.rowan-hull.com/biography/ Website:  http://www.rowan-hull.com/ Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/rowanhull Performance at South Bank Centre, November 2011 https://vimeo.com/42782825

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU HEAR Lis Rhodes recent work, Light Music is installed in Tate Modern, London, Uk from 18th July - 28th October, 2012. " Light Music  is an innovative work presented originally as a performance that experiments with celluloid and sound to push the formal, spatial and performative boundaries of cinema. An iconic work of expanded cinema, it creates a more central and participatory role for the viewer within a dynamic, immersive environment... Light Music  is Rhodes’s response to what she perceived as the lack of attention paid to women composers in European music. She composed a ‘score’ comprised of drawings that form abstract patterns of black and white lines onscreen. The drawings are printed onto the optical edge of the filmstrip. As the bands of light and dark pass through the projector they are ‘read’ as audio, creating an intense soundtrack, forming a direct, indexical relationship between the sonic and the visual. What one hears is the aura...

Sergio Maltagliati CIRCUS 5.1 UNICUM GRAPHICS The images of HomeArt programs by Pietro Grossi, are proposed through software by Sergio Maltagliati. This is a software which generates always different graphical variations.  It is based on HomeArt’s Basic source code.  The music program produces an automatic and generative music,starting from a simple sound cell. Visu@lMusic/HomeArt www.visualmusic.it free video download: http://www.pietrogrossi.org/cerchio4_2_unicum.7z download images: http://www.pietrogrossi.org/Cerchio_4_2%20immagini.7z About "A/V interactive compositions on the NET by Sergio Maltagliati Beginning with netOper@ in 1997, Sergio Maltagliati has created works on the Internet that combine audio and video elements into an intriguing interactive Internet experience. As far as a formal education, Maltagliati studied music at the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, Italy. Shortly after he finished his education at the Conservatory he bega...

OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT JUNE 28–OCTOBER 28, 2012 Whitney Museum, Los Angeles "This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made—Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a recreation of his multiple-screen film events first shown in Germany in 1926, recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in its format, its multiple screens of abstract shapes, color, and light produced an experience that, in Fischinger’s own description of his work, created “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.” Source and for more information visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OskarFischinger Visit Center for Visual Music (CVM) events page for more visual music exhibitions and events http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm

David West's very beautiful piece exploring that luminous quality of light and colour. "Samadhi is a visual music work that is a tribute to the films of computer graphic pioneers, John and James Whitney. The term 'samadhi' is a Sanskrit term for a higher level of awareness. The graphics were produced in Autodesk Maya using fluids and particles." The soundtrack is called 'Evolution' by Absorption http://youtu.be/2yppl2T1Djs Youtube embed

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...