Visual Music

Los Angeles premieres. Co-presented with Center for Visual Music “Joost Rekveld has provided an undeniable masterpiece with #37.” International Film Festival Rotterdam This ravishing “play of light” explores rhythmic abstractions in the cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld’s #37 (Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly beautiful study of the propagation and diffraction of light through crystalline structures. Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup also offers award-winning animated shorts from around the world, most of which are screening in L.A. for the first time. Featured artists include Scott Draves, Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen, Bärbel Neubauer, Thorsten Fleisch, Bret Battey, Michael Scroggins, Samantha Krukowski, Mondi, Devon Damonte, Scott Nyerges, Vivek Patel and Yusuke Nakajima. Plus the final film by the late CGI wizard Richard “Doc” Baily. In ...

EraSer + vj Ape5 are an audiovisual and experimental project from Italy. More on ape 5 Ape5 is active since 2001 both as a VJ and video-artist, basing his performances on the research and experimentation of real-time video, interested in the interaction between arts and video and in the experimentation of glitch aesthetisc of the sound. In 2005, he established vidauxs.net on the the first net labels that focus on real-time audio-video interaction. Lately he is into building audio-video controller that use open-source hardware See: http://www.ape5.it/ More on EraSer Matteo de Ruggieri using the pseudonym of EraSer has given birth to his own electronic experimental project through the art of circuit bending, exclusively playing with toys and musical instruments transformed by him, creating glitch and lo-fi electronic sounds on an intense melodic basis. An artist and circuit bender, he has set up circuitbend.it the first italian website based on this art, has modified toys for intern...

Audio Visual Performance A Visual and Sonic interplay by the painter- filmmaker Jean Detheux and pianist Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven See http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/2009/en/programmation/festival/?search=ok&lab=cinewild Programme note: "Normally, when you present a piece, you specify your intentions. But in this case, it is the absence of intention that defines our performance. We are not hoping for anything in particular to take place since it is precisely the “whatever happens” that interests us—all the more so if it is beyond our will or our control. We can say that the performance will be comprised of certain elements. There will be music, both early (Frescobaldi, Dowland, Couperin) and contemporary (Jean-Luc Fafchamps, John Adams, Steve Reich, Maurice Ravel, Claude Ledoux, Collard-Neven). There will also be free improvisation, music that doesn’t yet exist but lives only in the realm of possibility. At the same time, there will be images, drawn and reworked, as well as pho...

The punto y raya festival to be held in Barcelona on November 26th to 29th, 2009 (see website ) in its call for works has collected an amazing selection of audio visual works. The website provides excellent documentation of the works being shown and is a brillant starting point for checking out contemporary audio visual work - both fixed media, installation and performance. See festival videos page at: http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/english/videos_eng.html The 2009 official competition program for the festival showcases contemporary work - there are 76 films from all over the world, there is a link to more information about each film and a screengrab from the film - this is an excellent festival http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/2_edicion/eng/competicion09_mod1_eng.html "This festival explores the ultimate synthesis of the form·movement duality in different spheres of human endeavour. Due to the simplicity of its criteria, it uses abstraction's prime matter to reveal th...

"Sound Expression, graphics and audiovisual animation an experimentatl approach in line with their theoretical work on psicosonography. Intermodal ethic and integrated graphic design. This website is based on a few examples of their work." http://www.inter-modal.org/ Also see: http://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/antonio

48X48 from VS Team on Vimeo . Installation du collectif Visual System, pour l'édition 2009 du festival Scopitone à Nantes. 48X48 a été réalisée par Julien Guinard, Stephen Roques et Valère Terrier. Une sculpture lumineuse interactive et contrôlable, une œuvre volumétrique en apesanteur de 64m2, le collectif travaille sur des structures architecturales provisoires avec une technologie détournée : la led. Conçue comme un espace de lumière sans armature, généré par son environnement, elle happe le spectateur qui mènera rapidement un jeu spatial (sa position), architectural (points de vue de l’installation dans l’espace) et cinétique (vitesse de déplacement), alors conditionnés par la présence ou absence de lumière. Remerciement très spécial à Monsieur Thierry Pillet et à la Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère qui sont à nos côtés depuis le début. A previous post showing their architectural installations is here

Practice-led Visual Music Research Symposium, Bath Spa University, 19/20th Sept 2009 "Bath Spa University’s Center for Musical Research hosts an informal two-day symposium exploring a broad range of multimedia work highlighting the relationship between sound and image. Areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, lumia, cymatics, live audiovisual performance and relevant installation work will be examined and explored." http://seeingsound.co.uk The excellent programme organised by Dr Joe Hyde consisted of papers/presentations , performances and screenings . The mix of screenings, talks, papers and performances made this a really rich event and a wonderful opportunity to see and hear the work that is being created now in the area of practice-led Visual Music Research and to hear in detail how this is being done across many universities and various research activities in the UK, US, Ireland, Germany. Screenings came from a mix of historical work...