Visual Music

"'Raumlichtmusik' - Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments." Essay by Cindy Keefer (Director Center for Visual Music ) "Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Creative Data Special Issue. Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, and MIT Press. October 2009." This is an important historical visual music essay on Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson's early experiments in creating abstract cinema for immersive projection environments. It traces the origins in their work of what is more common today - the immersive multimedia environment. Information about plans Fischinger had to present a multimedia performance for the Farblichtmusik shows (started by László) has been researched and documented in this essay and is very exciting information to check out for the scholar interested in accurately tracing the origins of visual music and in particular, its links to contemporary multimedia performance. The vorte...

I have been coming across Andrew Hill's name in relation to visual music quite frequently recently. An up and coming artist and researcher in the audio-visual artwork genre. Flux is quite beautiful in its sound and image relationships - ordered, synaesthetic, gorgeous. More info on Andrew Hill "Andrew Hill is a composer from the UK. He studied electroacoustic music and music technology at Keele and De Montfort Universities electing to focus his studies upon audio-visual composition. He is currently conducting PhD research investigating audience reception of electroacoustic audio-visual artworks with Leigh Landy and Bret Battey at De Montfort University." Source: http://vimeo.com/andrewhill Flux Flux from Andrew Hill on Vimeo . "An audiovisual piece inspired by cyclic patterns, exploring sound and image relationships." Source: http://vimeo.com/20174827 See also: http://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/AndrewHill

Call for works Understanding VISUAL Music 2011 Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies in collaboration with the Department of Music CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Montreal - Canada August 26th and 27th, 2011 Website for more information: http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca/index.html INFORMATION ABOUT CALL FOR WORK AND SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE WORKS *_DESCRIPTION_* A two-day conference focused on developing an understanding of the practice of visual music, its definition, related creative and perceptual considerations, current trends, technological innovation, and possible future directions. The event will take place on *Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th of August 2011* and will include paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and creative works presentations. We are inviting researchers to present studies that address visual music's multiple definitions and dimensions, questions around visual music aesthetics an...

Rosa Menkman's work is beautiful in how it works with glitch and artifact images in her video work. "Every technology possess its own inherent accidents. ЯOSΛ MEИKMΛN is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences." Source of quote: http://aboutrosamenkman.blogspot.com/ Radio Dada by Rosa Menkman Video: Rosa Menkman Music: Extraboy Radio Dada from Rosa Menkman on Vimeo . "The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image created by feedback (I turned a high-end camera on a screen that was showing, in real time, what I was filming, creating a feedback loop). Then I glitched the video by changing its format and subsequently exporting it into animated gifs. I (minimalistically) edited the v...

Light Dreams: Visual Music by Vibeke Sorensen Date: Mon, 05/16/2011 - 8:00pm - 9:45pm Location: CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, Stanford University, USA Event Type: Concert "a retrospective of works by the renowned visual music artist and scholar Vibeke Sorensen. The concert will include a world premiere of Green Space, a new work in stereoscopic 3D." Website with more information: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/light-dreams-visual-music-vibeke-sorensen

" MuVi3. International exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music " Palacio de los Condes de Gabia (Granada, Spain) and Almeria University 16 th -19 th of February 2012 MuVi3, invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of kinetic works to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. The event is organized by the Foundation of Artecittà (Granada), the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Granada and the University of Almeria. Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2011 Fee of submission: Free For informations: http://muvi-visualmusic.tumblr.com/ Download of the Text and Forms of the Call in: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7288487/CallMuVi3%20%2812apr11%29.zip Contact: info@sinestesie.it and info@artecitta.es

This is a very fascinating audio visual work - emulating human emotion - those of love and fear, and how wonderful this piece is. The introduction is like the audiovisual elements breathe together.... a beautiful artwork. Audiovisuelle Rauminstallation fear:love from Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien on Vimeo . "fear: love is an audiovisual installation by Gerrit Kress, which deals with the two emotions fear and love. It shows the center of human emotion: an inner core that contains the particular emotion, grown in a system of transmitting and receiving arms that allow communication with the body and mind."[google translate from German] Source: vimeo link: http://vimeo.com/23318809