Visual Music

Press Release from the Punto Y Riya Festival and CALL FOR WORKS As you probably know,  Punto y Raya  &  Reykjavík Center for Visual Music  have joined to produce the greatest event in the history of abstract visual music and live cinema: the  Reykjavík Visual Music  -  Punto y Raya Festival 2014 , which will take place  from  January 30 th to  February 2 nd   2014  at  HARPA  Concert Hall (Iceland).  The deadline for the  CALLS FOR ENTRIES  is  October 28th 2013 , and it's approaching fast! There is no entry fee and the films & live set demos are submitted online through our website.  www.puntoyrayafestival.com ::   SHORT FILM  CALL FOR ENTRIES Open to abstract films experimenting with  dots & lines  and avoiding representation.  All techniques are welcome; the soundtrack  cannot feature articulated words  and the maximum running ti...

Image( c) Center for Visual Music. Kreise (Circles), 1933-34 by Oskar Fischinger LECTURE  Preserving Visual Music: The Archives of Center for Visual Music Next Wednesday (October 2nd, 2013 at 1.00 pm in the ATRL ( ATRL.ie ), Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Cindy Keefer, the director of the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles, will be discussing and screening selections from the CVM archive. For those interested in visual music, abstract cinema, expanded cinema, experimental film, this is a must hear and see talk and a great opportunity to hear about the preservation and archiving work of the CVM and an opportunity to meet its director in person. Keefer has co-edited a recently published book on Oskar Fischinger, Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction, distributed by Thames & Hudson. " Cindy Keefer , archivist and curator, will discuss and screen work by pioneers of kinetic art and visual music from Center for Visual Music’s (CVM) archives....

Fractal is a contemporary music production company set up by Anna Murray and Philip Lawson. It aims to create new contexts for contemporary music through informal settings and collaboration with other media. We are dedicated to new Irish music, programming full concerts of works by Irish composers, including specially commissioned music. Fractal have put on a number of music concert events that included a visual element, some of these have been in a music performance setting, where visual artists worked on creating visuals for existing music compositions (or did both for the case of a music composer creating their own visuals).   Their first concert was for the Dublin Culture Night in 2012, this concert also toured Dublin, Mayo and Cork. Visit  https://www.facebook.com/FractalMusicDublin for more information and  http://fractalmusicdublin.wordpress.com/ Synthesis Two innovative programmes have been curated in partnership with the IFI (Irish F...

Found: new restorations and discoveries from Center for Visual Music Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Thursday 26 September 2013, 19.00 – 21.00 £5, concessions available. "This selection explores lost, legendary and rare treasures found in the archives of Center for Visual Music (CVM). Featuring rare works by Jordan Belson, including two unreleased films, the unfinishedQuartet and the premiere of the restoration of the infamous LSD, plus a reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex Concerts (1957–9), and the rarely screened Bopscotch...The programme, featuring many new preserved 16 mm and 35 mm prints, is introduced by archivist/curator Cindy Keefer of CVM." Visit Tate Modern web page for more information www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/film/found-new-restorations-and-discoveries-center-visual-music

A very interesting project consisting of experiments, exhibitions and research in a new medium in audio-visual screenless animation: The Diasynchronoscope  proejct is really a very exciting find, and really worth checking out. The artists and researchers from TROPE (Joint artistic partnership of Carol and Bruno, co-creators of the Diasynchronoscope) are the creators of this new medium. What the medium consists of is a series of physical objects are positioned in space according to Gestalt and animation principles and then animated with synchronized sound using projection mapping technologies. The artists and researchers consider that this might be called ‘concrete animation’. Because the Diasynchronoscope is a screen-less medium‚ videos do notreplicate the experience. If you are interested in experiencing the Diasynchronoscope‚ please contact then and they will either invite you to their studio in New Cross (South London) or to their next show . Quoting from their...

Seeing Sound 3 is now open for submissions - call for works, and papers and in particular live performance works.   DEADLINE for submissions is 27th SEPTEMBE R.  Symposium takes place on 23/24 November, 2013 at Bath Spa University. Practice-Led Research Symposium, Bath Spa University "Seeing Sound is an informal practice-led symposium exploring multimedia work which foregrounds the relationship between sound and image." "It explores areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, audiovisual performance and installation practice through paper sessions, screenings, performances and installations." "This year’s event will have a focus on live performance, but as in previous years, Seeing Sound will also be open to works which fall outside of this focus but within the broader remit of the Seeing Sound series. Submissions should be sited in areas of (audio)visual music, videomusic and other areas of sound-led multimedia practice, ...

Featured on the amazing website - Creative Applications Net (CAN) http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/dedalo-an-instrument-by-quayola-sinigaglia-to-see-the-sound/ Dedalo - An instrument by Quayola & Natan Sinigaglia to 'see' the sound "Developed as a collaboration between Quayola & Sinigaglia, Dedalo is a collection of custom developed vvvv engines (and a toolkit) to generate, exchange and map data between a series of graphics modules and a rendering engine used for live performance and audiovisual concerts... The project began as a collaboration in 2010 with the development of software called  Partitura . The aim was to create an instrument for performance that would allow visualisation of sound in realtime... Dedalo is built using vvvv together with custom specific addons and plugins. All of the graphics are generated in the GPU via DirectX11 and the system works across two separate machines over a network (the manager and therenderer) with...