Visual Music

See Video on You Tube "This was an attempt to visualize some of the abstract noise that goes on inside my head when listening to music. At first blush, it may not seem that different from a software visualizer. Unfortunately, visualizers are bound by the analysis of a stereo mix. While a it may extract information from certain frequency ranges, it can't really tell a clarinet from a duduk and represent each discretely. Here, each element has its own visual counterpart." Source

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laptop_orchestra is an interactive synaesthetic instrument, designed for performances of audio visual compositions in real time. The space conformation of the fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows, brings back to the formation of an orchestral group. http://limiteazero.net/l_o/index.html Limiteazero is an architecture, media design and media art studio based in Milan, Italy, founded in 1998 by Paolo Rigamonti and Silvio Mondino. " Limiteazero’s areas of expertise include: installations design, responsive environment design, crossmedia design for retail, media in architecture and public space, interaction design. The studio works both on independent research projects and commissioned installations, for clients like Toshiba, BlackBerry, Alberto Aspesi, Nice, Siemens, Antonio Citterio & Partners." Source

"The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art." HEAD, SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION & ARTIST NETWORK Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau http://www.virtualart.at/common/recentDocument.do

Octopulse "The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means. The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesiser to convert into cacophonous noises." http://www.shootthestylist.net/octo/index.htm

Octopulse "The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means. The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesiser to convert into cacophonous noises." http://www.shootthestylist.net/octo/index.htm

Center for Visual Music announces a new DVD release : Jordan Belson - Five Essential Films The DVD includes three classic films: Allures (1961) Samadhi (1967) Light (1973) A never-before released film: Fountain of Dreams (1984), and Belson's latest film, Epilogue (2005) Jordan Belson is one of the greatest artists of visual music. Belson creates lush vibrant experiences of exquisite color and dynamic abstract phenomena evoking sacred celestial experiences. ( William Moritz) Curated by Jordan Belson, Produced by Center for Visual Music NTSC, Region-Free, SD, 4:3, TRT approx 45 minutes $25 private home use, $150 institutions (does not include public performance rights) June 2007 release Purchase at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/JBDVD.htm Belson's bio, bibliography, filmography, plus information re the films on the disc: www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson