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CALL FOR WORKS/PAPERS - Seeing Sound 4 - April 9th-10th 2016

Seeing Sound 4 - Call for papers/works Seeing Sound 4 will take place on the 9th and 10th of April 2016 at Bath Spa University in the UK and is now open for submissions of papers , fixed media works and performance works and - as a special call this year - are looking for imaginative proposals for the MediaWall and atrium space of their new building. The deadline for all submissions is 29 January 2016. Website:  http://www.seeingsound.co.uk/ Seeing Sound is an informal practice-led symposium exploring multimedia work which foregrounds the relationship between sound and image. It explores areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, audiovisual performance and installation practice through paper sessions, screenings, performances and installations. Seeing Sound 4 will take place at Bath Spa over the 9th and 10th of April 2016. It represents a move away from the winter months, and a physical move also – although still hosted in the idyllic Ne...

Sound/ Image Colloquium 2015

Sound/ Image Colloquium 2015 7th - 8th November, 2015 11 Stockwell Street  University of Greenwich  SE10 8EY Greenwich United Kingdom http://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sounddesign/events/sound-image/ Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice. The Sound / Image colloquium is interested in exploring the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we will bring together artists and academics to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena. Michel Chion  is special guest. Additional keynote talks from  Jo Hyde  and  Mairead McClean . The event itself will take place on the weekend of the 7th / 8th November 2015, at the Stockwell Street Building in Greenwich. http://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sounddesign/events/sound-image/ Organiser: Andrew Hill http://www.ahillav.co.uk/ Screenings Sound/ Image Screenings htt...

Digitized Animations from Early Optical Toys

Screengrab of Praxinoscopes webpage:  http://www.dickbalzer.com/Praxinoscopes.599.0.html Richard Balzer has been collecting early optical toys and he and his assistant have digitized many of the discs and outputs from these toys into digital animations, to create a kind of digital museum of historical early moving images. " I have been collecting for more than thirty years, and my collecting wanders around the theme of visual entertainment, and almost all of the collection dates from before 1900. Over time you will find magic lanterns, peepshows, shadows, transparencies, thaumatropes, phenakistascopes and a variety of other optical toys.  " Source:  http://www.dickbalzer.com/ " Nearly five hundred years ago European collectors arranged their pieces in cabinets of curiosities (Wunderkabinette) in an attempt to display their rare pieces. As collections grew, the more ambitious set aside rooms called Wunderkammern (Rooms of Wonder) for visitors to come and view the...

Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Philipp Rahlenbeck - Visual Piano with Uli Mitzlaff

Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano with Uli Mitzlaff at lumina, Cascais    "Published on 14 Oct 2015 This german artist proposes us some serious entertainment. An abstract language of lines, spots and dynamic plans which represent visually music activated by the artist through a MIDI keyboard. Committing the audience in the performance by creating various graphic patterns that expands the geometry of the surrounding architecture, just as the thundering winter approaches in a manipulated and controlled chaos by the artist. Kurt Laurenz Theinert is an artist of light and other different media, who acts live preferably, having his artwork “Visual Piano” being previously presented in cities all around the world. Conceived in collaboration with Philipp Rahlenbeck, this artwork subsists in a device that allows the artist to fill spaces in real time with visual elements without resorting to pre-fabricated clips. Pure live visual music! Ulrich Mitzlaff is living in Portug...

Animation about: Edmund Burke and the sublime - Sounding Visual Blog

History of Ideas Short animations to explain some big questions around freewill, beauty and good and evil. "A fresh take on the History of Ideas as big subjects like beauty, freedom, technology and morality get dissected by a team of thinkers. Philosophers, theologians, lawyers, Neuroscientists, historians and mathematicians join Melvyn Bragg to present a history in many voices." See link to all animations in the series http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3vVjcY47k2p5Wsnj3ZFHV5W/a-history-of-ideas Example Animation Edmund Burke and the sublime "Some things that move us are beautiful, others are sublime. But the sublime moves us more profoundly than the beautiful. See how Edmund Burke tied the experience of the sublime to the possibility of pain and how the idea went on to influence the artistic Romanticism movement. Voiced by Harry Shearer. Scripted by Nigel Warburton." Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b8t1k BOOK: ...

Call for Contributions to the "klingt gut! / sounds good!" symposium on sound - Hamburg

"lectures, workshops and panel discussions on sound art, sound design and the interdependence of aesthetics and technology" http://www.klangsymposium.de/ Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Audio Engineering Society Hamburg Student Section are inviting to "klingt gut! / sounds good!" symposium on sound, June 4-6 2015 at the Arts and Media Campus Hamburg. During 3 days, topics from sound design and sound art to electroacoustic music in combination with visual design are discussed in lectures, workshops, panel discussions and presentations.  Until April 12, 2015.  Submissions for a proposal for a conference contribution or artwork, lectures and tutorials as well as proposals for audiovisual presentations (e.g. film sound design, installation, sound art­) are welcome. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 2015 Visit website for more information: http://www.klangsymposium.de/

Call for Submissions - Understanding Visual Music - Brazil

The deadline for submitting papers for this forthcoming conference on research and creation outcomes about visual music is TODAY - March 9th, 2015. http://uvm2015.unb.br/ "UNDERSTANDING VISUAL MUSIC - UVM 2015” June 10-12, 2015 at University of Brasilia, Brazil DEADLINE for submissions: March 9, 2015. The Computer Art Research Laboratory of the University of Brasilia (Brazil) in association with the Electronic Arts Research and Experimentation Centre (CEIArtE) of the National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina) and Concordia University (Canada) is pleased to invite you to submit proposals to share your research and creation outcomes as well as to discuss concepts, current trends, technological innovations and creativity aspects of visual music. "Understanding Visual Music - UVM" was born from the idea of knowing better the conceptual roots of visual-music. The first edition of UVM was held in Montreal, 2011 ( http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca ). In 2013 the...

Call for Videomusic Compositions - Montreal Videomusic Festival 2015

The Montreal Videomusic Festival 2015 are now inviting proposais for videomusic compositions. The Festival will take place in April 2015 in Montreal, Canada. Deadline is very close - March 10th 2015 For more information visit the facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/events/857820210945198 Information from facebook page is posted below: Montreal Videomusic Festival 2015 CALL FOR WORKS April 10-11-12, 2015 Espace Notre-Dame, Montreal, Canada We are now inviting proposals for videomusic compositions. GENERAL INFORMATION - International works will be presented during three days - Live audiovisual performances on evenings - Special Vitrine to Montreal based students SUBMISSION DEADLINE : March 10th 2015 FEES Free submission and registration. SUBMISSION We invite submissions for compositions of videomusic that are related the following practices : - Electroacoustic or experimental music - Sonic art - Animation - Visual art, photography Maximum of 2 works ...

KIMA - music like you’ve never seen before

KIMA - music like you’ve never seen before Evolution of Motion, Sound, Geometry and Colour by Analema Group and the Union Chapel Organ Project With Special Guests: Claire M Singer - Organ Joby Burgess – Percussion (Powerplant) Estela Merlos - Dance Laura Moody – Cello (Elysian Quartet) Robert Ames- Viola (LCO) Emily Burn – Voice (Voice) Date of performance: 22 March 2015 – 20.00 pm, doors 19.00 pm Place: Union Chapel, Compton Terrace N1 2UN, London Booking: Tickets: £10/£7 conc. + advanced booking fee via http://www.unionchapel.org.uk Programme (with 2 intervals) MARE UNDARUM AXIS MUNDI AURORA Music for your eyes and ears. Based on a natural phenomena, brought to life using leading technology - KIMA paints music in light on the incredible architecture of the Union Chapel. In collaboration with contemporary music’s foremost talents, Analema Group and the Organ Project present a unique audio-visual performance, centred around the Henry Willis Organ (187...

Videomusic concert - Dias de MĆŗsica ElectroacĆŗstica 21 - CEC

Title: videomusic concert Date: 15th February, 2015 Organisers: CEC, Dias de MĆŗsica ElectroacĆŗstica festival, Curation Joseph Hyde. The CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community) has programmed three concerts in the 21st edition of the Dias de MĆŗsica ElectroacĆŗstica festival () in Seia, Portugal, from 13–15 February, 2015. The videomusic concert which is one of the three concerts programmed by CEC for this festival is curated by Joseph Hyde and consists of recent videomusic works. This concert will take place on the 15th February, 2015. See facebook page:  http://facebook.com/564944106975362 This videomusic works concert is also a followup to the publication in the April 2014 issue of eContact! 15.4. — Videomusic: Overview of an Emerging Art Form / VidĆ©omusique: aperƧu d’une pratique artistique Ć©mergente. Many of the names on the programme can be found in this issue of eContact!. http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/15_4 The programme for the videomusic concert is ...

Capital Irish Film Festival: Music and Multimedia Concert

Capital Irish Film Festival: Music and Multimedia Concert - Washington DC A  music and multimedia concert curated by composer Sarah O'Halloran as part of the Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF) showcases a selection of fixed-media works featuring original music and original moving images by mainly Ireland based composers and moving image artists. "Enjoy opera with animation, Irish dance with sound art, and abstract video art with ambient electronics then vote for your favorite piece. The makers of the Audience Choice work will win a $1500 prize." Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015 from 5.00 to 6.30pm at the Goethe Institut, Wachington DC, US. See website for more information and for booking details: http://www.solasnua.org/calendar/music-and-multimedia Brochure for the Capital Irish Film Festival http://www.solasnua.org/s/CIFF-Brochure-13-Jan-2015.pdf Capital Irish Film Festival http://www.solasnua.org/ciff Music and Multimedia Programme : (source we...

Visual Music Award 2015 - Call For Works

Visual Music Award 2015 - Call for Entries NOW Starting right now  - submission deadline May 15th 2015 The  Visual Music Award 2015  is a junior creative competition for works on music visualizations from the fields of new media art, experimental film or animation. We invite you to participate with your work for the Visual Music Award 2015  Call for Entries 2015 .  The  submission deadline  is on friday   May 15th 2014 . As submissions to the Visual Music Award 2015 and the Visual Music Live Contest 2015 we expect interpretations of music by visionary artistic visualisations. The holistic media compositions should come close to "paintings in time", "visual music", "symphonies of light and sound", "cinematic paintings", "color light music" or "space light art". This year's prize winners and awardees will receive a certificate and also prizes by our sponsors as well as a unique presentation of their works ...

Video - Jan Mayen directed by Michael Fragestein

"Jan Mayen" is the title for a music video directed by Michael Fragstein at BĆ¼ro Achter April for Boozoo Bajou´s Album '4'. The video is really beautiful. Abstract as the director says just like the music. There are some really lovely animations of forms into and out of other forms and I love the colour combinations. Very intersting work being created by Michael and his team at BĆ¼ro Achter April, they are based in Stuttgart, Germany. Work divided into stills, motion, design engineering and interactive with the really relevant subtitle "Digitale Form". More information: Michael Fragstein at BĆ¼ro Achter April: http://8apr.de/studio.html Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/59911840 Boozoo Bajou: http://www.boozoobajou.com/ Vimeo embed of Jan Mayen JAN MAYEN, BOOZOO BAJOU from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo .

Circle of Light - Moscow International Light and Multimedia Festival

The 4th Moscow international light and multimedia festival «Circle of Light» will be held from 11th to 14th October, 2014 in Moscow, Russia. The festival will include a selection of works from the international call for works for the International Projection Mapping Art Vision Contest. The theme of the competition is "Light around the world". The Contest of 2014 will be held in three different locations that will be divided according to the general idea of projections shown: VDNH Pavilion 1 Art Vision Classic http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/classic/ VDNH Pavilion 12 Art Vision Modern http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/modern/ VDNH Pavilion 32 + Full scale model of Rocket Art Vision VJing Battle http://lightfest.ru/en/art-vision-contest/vj/ During the contest, mapping video design groups from all over the world will be able to fully demonstrate their vision of 3D mapping video projections. The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy” ...

"Visual hearings, a synesthetic experience"

" Visual hearings, a synesthetic experience " is an online international group exhibition curated by Enrique Salmoiraghi. The online exhibition is based in Argentina. It will be online from July 2014 to October 2014. The exhibition consists of visual music works and in particular audio-visuals experiments in reactivity. For more information visit the online exhibition at: http://www.espaciobyte.org/espaciobyte.php?cat=108

Reconstruction of the Ballet triadico 1970 by Margarete Hastings

Reconstruction of Ballet Tradico from the Margarete Hastings sketches. A very interesting website (in French) - an online research website of the work of Oskar Schlemmer at: http://triadicos.wordpress.com/ A really interesting seminar - Rerunning Ballet Tradico Seminar "the seminar is intended as a space for reflection on the creation stage, particularly on what some call "broad-ranging dance reconstruction" and that we are more interested in the processes that determine results, we have called "rerunning" a term that assumes more open as interpreter of anyone who wants to rerun a past stage work." http://triadicos.wordpress.com/seminario-de-reejecucion/ Oskar Schlemmer Drawings: http://triadicos.wordpress.com/bocetos-2/ Useful links and resources http://www.thecityreview.com/bauhaus.html http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/bauhaus/Main.html# Video of the reconstruction of Triadic Ballet made ​​by Margarete Ha...

Contact - Augmented Acoustics

Felix Faire (UK), a Parametric System Designer had designed some very interesting interactive installations. One of these, Contact is an interface with which to manipulate and visualize sounds. Beautiful results. View Contact: Augmented Acoustics CONTACT: Augmented Acoustics from Felix Faire on Vimeo . "CONTACT is a tangible audio interface to manipulate and visualize sounds generated from interaction with a simple wooden surface. Any physical contact with the table generates acoustic vibrations which are manipulated and visualized LIVE as they occur using several communicating pieces of software. All code will be opensource and available on github. Bartlett School of Architecture Msc AAC Tutor: Ruairi Glynn" More information: http://www.coroflot.com/felixfaire/profile Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/felixfaire

Force.Line.Border by Casey Farina

Force.Line.Border by Casey Farina is a beautiful audiovisual work that consists of an animated score where the movie serves as the score for three musicians who interpret a section of the screen. The design of the visual composition and the simplicity of the idea to work with three ideas/parameters of force, line and border is combined with the percussive sounds and motions so elegantly. Work : Force.Line.Border Author : Casey Farina Date : Percussion : Douglas Nottingham, Joe Perez, and Robert Esler "Black = Sound White = Silence Force.Line.Border. is an animated graphic score for a trio of indeterminate instrumentation. This work is the latest in a series of animated graphic scores that builds on the concepts developed by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, and Earle Brown for using abstract visual imagery to define musical events. The animated score is projected into the space and the musicians perform composed improvisations derived from their interpretation...

Robert Henke - LumiĆØre

LumiĆ©re - An audiovisual live performance with laser projections "Three powerful white lasers draw rapid successions of ephemeral objects, seemingly floating in space. The data used to draw the shapes is transformed into audible frequencies. Laser patterns and sonic treatments are performed as an improvised dialog between the artist and the audiovisual machine. LumiĆØre is an exploration of synchronicity and divergence, of light and darkness, movement and sound at the limits of perception." Source: http://www.monolake.de/concerts/lumiere.html LumiĆ©re Technology Information Quote from technical page: "The lasers are controlled with analog signals, created in MaxMSP. These signals are technically the same type of signals used for audio, but they serve a different purpose and are usually not intended to be made audible. They rather control the movement of extremely fast and precise mirrors and the intensity of the laser beams and by doing so allow me to draw ...

Day 2 - Reykjavik/PuntoyRaya Visual Music Festival -

Day 2 of PuntoyRaya and Reykjavik Visual Music Festival happening today - January 31st, 2014 Visit:  http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/schedule/friday#ag for more information Join their facebook page for stunning photographs from the opening night of the festival January 30th 2014 and some stunning live cinema/ audiovisual photographs from this event. https://www.facebook.com/rvmfestival

s+v+m Blog - Resource for sounds-visual-movement

s+v+m Blog - Resource for sounds-visual-movement Rodrigo Carvalho Excellent resource in this blog by Rodrigo Carvalho of VISIOPHONE. In particular Carvalho uses the blog to keep a notebook on sounds-visual-movement topics (like a sister of this blog!) Really great articles on live performance work. To quote: "This blog intends to work as notebook for my research on synergies between Sound-Visuals-Movement, audiovisual interactive systems, augmented realities, graphic representations of sound and movement in real time, hypersensory immersive media and synaesthesia states." His recent post on graphic sound visualisers is just brilliant (courtesy of a facebook post one of the leaders in the field of live audio-visual performance, Max Hattler ) http://s-v-m.tumblr.com/post/74852362487/graphic-sound-visualizers-viii Blog URL: http://s-v-m.tumblr.com/ Other websites by Rodrigo Carvalho www.visiophone-lab.com www.twitter.com/visiophone-lab www.vimeo.com/vis...

Call for Music and Multi-Media Works from Irish Artists and Composers

Solas Nua: Call for Music and Multi-Media Works from Irish contemporary artists "Solas Nua ( www.solasnua.org ) was founded in 2004 to present the best of Irish contemporary arts to audiences in the United States. We invite Irish composers and media artists to submit pieces which combine original music and multi-media to be shown in Washington D.C. in Autumn 2014. Selected works will be eligible for a $1500 prize, which will be based on audience votes. DETAILS: Closing Date: August 15th 2014 Duration: Works shorter than 6 minutes are preferred, but longer works will be considered. Solas Nua plans to show selected works in a concert event, and may also display works at a D.C. visual arts venue. This opportunity is open to Irish-born, and Irish-resident artists of any age. Artists from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are encouraged to apply. Submissions must feature the work of one Irish artist, and may feature the work of additional international col...