Visual Music

Telerektion - Beautiful Visuals and Music by Alex Itin

Alex Itin - Artist in Residence at the Institute for the Future of the Book

Chris O'Shea is an interactive media artist and researcher. "His focus is on creating works that encourage new methods of play and collaboration, challenging our perception of space and physical objects. His specialization is in synaesthesia, a fusion of sonic and visuals , through models of interaction that borrow from toy design, video game culture and urban play. Chris uses an open source process and hacked appropriated technology in the development of his work." See more information on his work and projects at: http://www.chrisoshea.org/about/ An example of one of his projects: Chris O'Shea - Plink Plonk (Onedotzero / V&A) - "Mechanical music boxes as input to collaborative visuals." Pixelsumo - Research by Chris O' Shea Chris also keeps a resource website which is an excellent resource on the area of visual music - sound image interaction. http://www.pixelsumo.com pixelsumo

The Color Piano Project - "an interactive representational system devised to bridge visualization and understanding between language, color and music. The Color Piano Project is an open source exploratory educational color/music system. " by Dan Vlahos

Article " Where Abstraction and Comics Collide " Esther Leslie on Oskar Fishinger in Tate (UK) magazine "TATE ETC" Issue 7 - Summer 2006 " Kandinsky allegedly saw the animated film Composition in Blue by Oskar Fischinger, who was influenced by the painter’s imagery and diversified into an extraordinary range of art and commerce, working briefly on Disney’s Fantasia. Esther Leslie assesses the underrated artist’s work ..."

NEW Oskar Fishinger DVD available online at the Center for Visual Music. The DVD contains ten of Oskar Fishinger's classic Visual Music films. For more details about the films on the DVD see the following DVD Press Information: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVDPress.htm Details on how to order visit The Center for Visual Music website at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm

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