Visual Music

The Visual Music Archive has been set up by Heike Sperling . This is an excellent online resource for all that is happening in visual music and would be worth bookmarking and coming back to regularly. The layout is really easy to use and follow and this is an exciting resource, that I will definitely be keeping in touch with regularly. Visual Music Archive Heike makes the very interesting points about archiving practice via online means. "Since the Visual Music Archive is not a blog it accumulates slowly and steadily, and shall continue to far into the future. To seek completeness in the field of fine arts seems rather eerie. A wunderkammer, on the other hand, is far more interesting, challenging, and provides inspiring impulses. As a library's inner sanctum." Source: http://www.heikesperling.de/visualmusic.0.html There are really useful categories from which to browse the archive. Latest Editions Artists Works Reading Visit http://visualmusicarchiv...

Celebrating Elfriede Fischinger on her 100th Birthday An Exhibition and Benefit Reception for CVM’s Fischinger Preservation and Conservation Project Hosted by Center for Visual Music in collaboration with The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and The Fischinger Trust "Join us for a celebration of the life of Elfriede (1910-1999), widow of the avant-garde filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger . The evening features an Exhibition of selected photographs, artifacts and Paintings by Oskar Fischinger, a Wine Reception, and a Screening of Home Movies, Interviews and Videos of Elfriede. Highlights include Oskar’s first Stereo Painting (1949), The Lumigraph film (1970) by Elfriede, and unshot animation drawings by Oskar. Proceeds from the evening, which includes a silent auction, will benefit the work of Center for Visual Music, a nonprofit archive engaged in preserving and promoting the Fischinger films and legacy. Elfriede Fischinger (1910-1999) devoted nearly her entire life to...

First-Ever Vimeo® Festival & Awards Celebrates Creative Online Video and Opens for Awards Submission Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC , opened the submissions window today for the Vimeo Awards, which honors creative and original online videos and the people that create them. Starting today, people around the world can submit their videos for consideration across nine judged categories. The judges will choose the Best Online Video from the top videos in each category, and that winner will receive a $25,000 grant to produce new work. Videos must have debuted online within the past two years to be considered. Vimeo will announce the winners during an awards ceremony at the close of its two-day festival on October 8-9 in New York City. Additionally, Vimeo will preview some of the finalists' work at a screening event in Amsterdam in September. "The Vimeo Festival & Awards is an acknowledgement of--and showcase for-- the unprecedented level of creativity, skill and...

"Call for Entries 2010 The avant-garde-artists of the “Absolute Film” movement worked on visionary film experiments. They created visual symphonies from animated images which they composed on film according to their perception as artists. These were called “paintings in time”, ”visual music”, “symphonies of light and sound”, “cinematic paintings”, “color light music” or “space light art”. Target Groups: The “Visual Music Award 2010” is again an international call for proposals addressing young talents. Invited for participation are young independent creative artists and designers as well as students for example in the disciplines of new media art, experimental film and music video and allied disciplines. In the year 2010, for the second time, we invite video jockeys (VJs or DJs) and "live-performance" artists to participate with their formats in the new catagory "visual music live contest"! Criteria of Evaluation: The competition entries should s...

"onedotzero_adventures in motion: festival call for submissions! a fantastic opportunity to get your work seen by a like-minded, connected and creative international community. this years festival premieres at the bfi southbank, London 10-14 november 2010 before touring internationally. deadline for receiving entries is 30th june 2010, 5pm. onedotzero are seeking innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to showcase at the bfi southbank, london, uk, 10-14 november 2010. the five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero's extensive worldwide network of events. onedotzero_adventures in motion has been the largest dedicated digital short film festival in the world since 1999. over fourteen years the programme has expanded to embrace a wide range of digital motion arts and is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industries alike for providing a platform to explore new ideas and fresh innovation through curated...

Sara Rossi's beautiful video installation - " TV effect " created in 2008, is being exhibited as part of the " LookAtFestival 2010 " consisting of Video Art and Music, to be held in Italy, from 15 to 30 May, 2010. Sara's video installation caught my eye for the use of three screens and optical effects that remind me of much visual music work. View video excerpt and still images of " TV effect " on Sara's website http://www.sararossi.net/work/tv_effect/tv_con_video.html LookAtFestival info: http://www.lookatfestival.it/ Sara Rossi website http://www.sararossi.net/

The new video for Jinesis 's music track candy is available to watch on vimeo. The video is a tight audio visual piece, which focuses on abstract visuals to work with the music.  The video was produced by NGB . The music is by Jinesis and the style is experimental soul.  It is wonderful to see a visual music approach been taken to the video for the music track.  Using processing in conjunction with quartz composer and after effects,  "Candy" explores visuals sonically exuding the 'feeling' of music in a 'synthesized synesthesia'. More information on the video "The Video for Jinesis's slinky audio escapade "Candy" was designed to take geometric lines and patterns and interpret the five senses we feel when in love into just 2: audio and visual. Open to the viewers interpretation, the video's Kaleidoscopic effect is intended to unravel the premeditated ideas of set borders when we think of love." Source: http://vimeo.co...