Visual Music

OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT JUNE 28–OCTOBER 28, 2012 Whitney Museum, Los Angeles "This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made—Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a recreation of his multiple-screen film events first shown in Germany in 1926, recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in its format, its multiple screens of abstract shapes, color, and light produced an experience that, in Fischinger’s own description of his work, created “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.” Source and for more information visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OskarFischinger Visit Center for Visual Music (CVM) events page for more visual music exhibitions and events http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm

David West's very beautiful piece exploring that luminous quality of light and colour. "Samadhi is a visual music work that is a tribute to the films of computer graphic pioneers, John and James Whitney. The term 'samadhi' is a Sanskrit term for a higher level of awareness. The graphics were produced in Autodesk Maya using fluids and particles." The soundtrack is called 'Evolution' by Absorption http://youtu.be/2yppl2T1Djs Youtube embed

Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons on vimeo http://vimeo.com/31319154 I previously posted an excerpt from the stunning rheo: 5 from the youtube website.  Ryoichi Kurokawa's vimeo channel is worth checking out and the wonderful rheo: 5 is on that. This is a beautiful work, and there is something about odd numbers.  The arrangement into 5 screens is really interesting, it reminds me also of the earlier work Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes - again an arrangement of an odd number of screens, this time 3, it also deals with horizon. I did a short blog post on my other blog - sounding visual blog on Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes, recently reshown. see: http://soundingvisual.blogspot.com/2012/01/roy-lichtensteins-three-landscapes.html Excerpt Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons "Audiovisual installation2010 5 HD displays | 5ch multi sound Duration: 08'00" Loop" rheo: 5 horizons from RYOICHI KUROKAWA on Vimeo . Website: http://www...

Jean Detheux - "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." what a great title - posting latest news on Jean Detheux's visual music work "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." is a film in 6 movements, based on related texts of E. E. Cummings that focus on themes of nature and the cycle of life. The sonic material, created by Mikel Kuehn mikelkuehn.com/, is derived from manipulated environmental sounds and the recitation of Cummings texts by soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn. The images were created first (the idea was to create a life in 4 parts, followed by a "recollection" of that life, as if at the moment of death, in the 5th and final movement). The sonic material came later and added an in-between part, visually blank, thus bringing the total to 6 movements." [The work with be presented at The Thirteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Symposium 2012 Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New Lon...

Jt Root, music-visualist and VJ known as Aeonchild, works out of Boulder, Colorado as a Production Designer and Live VJ Performer. Recently has created a visualist piece - The Aeonchild Visualist Project, a commissioned work by Ballet Nouveau Colorado's production of "Love in the Digital Age". source:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeonchild/6820176415/in/photostream I am very taken with the term 'visualist' or 'music-visualist' that Aeonchild uses to describe his process of interpreting music, here is a quote from his website explaining this term. "Aeonchild’s work re-interprets music into a visual language, spinning cosmic messages with symmetrical precision. Through the use of motion graphics, video, light and color, he mixes futuristic visions with ancient symbols of sacred geometry. The result is a visceral experience that fuses sight and sound while teasing the senses with visible rhythms." Source:  http://aeonchild.com/about/ ...

Daniel Palacios - Waves "A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element... But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations." Source: http://danielpalacios.info/en/waves Vimeo Link Waves from Daniel Palacios on Vimeo . Vimeo Description of video documentation "Waves' utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installati...

As part of the Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time Festival,  a programme on Colour Music is being shown on 24th February, 2012 Colour Music Recollections De Balie Friday 24 February 17:00 - 18:30 "A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles Dockum on his ‘Mobilcolor’ instrument, the first recreation of Oskar Fischinger‘s multi-projector shows and a rare screening of documentation of the 1968 recreation by Kurt Schwerdtfeger of the very first light experiments at the Bauhaus. This programme will mark the launch of the posthumous publication of the book The Academy of the Senses, Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education by Frans Evers, one of the founders of both the Sonic Acts festival and the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. The programme will be introduced by Joost Rekveld . This programme has been made possible with the kind support of ...