Visual Music

Johnathan Gillie's animations are such surreal worlds which animate in the most unusual manner where many things exist at different times and in different spatial locations with their own temporal appearance and disapearance, for his work 'Ways of seeing' he considers the physiological processes involved in the act of seeing itself. Very beautiful and intriguing work. Ways of Seeing A Broken Bell  He has been working in Moving Image since 1995. Is involved with Trampoline Multimedia 1997-2000 and is one half of av_dv 1999-2004. He is currently employed as Senior Technician in Moving Image Dept of NTU.  His current practice involves video, animation, computer graphics and sound production. More Information Johnathan Gillie - [Creative Journal  Website ] [ Vimeo ] WATCH ON VIMEO Ways of Seeing Ways of Seeing from Jonathan Gillie on Vimeo . Information about Ways of seeing from vimeo page. "Ways of Seeing is an experiment using a strobe process to...

I have just come across the work of Andreas Karaoulanis. His animations are 'stop me in my tracks' beautiful. I have watched some from his vimeo channel, but felt I must post this to keep track of this great work. Why do I like it? The illustrations in a moving collage type style are so rhythmic. The movements and the flat arrangement of objects and cut outs in a formless and groundless space, in fact, the space is just a background colour in many works, is perfectly in tune with the musicality of the music, not just a synchronised beat but a whole mood, style and playfulness that may not even be apparent in the music, if one listened to the music on its own, but emerges with his playful rhythms and arrangement and positioning of independent yet connected to each other graphic elements. This is really wonderful choreography and movement. Biography "Andreas Karaoulanis comes from a Computer Science studies and Animation. His current work deals with interact...

UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT), Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles), and Corwin Chair, UCSB Department of Music, present  Exploring Visual Music - A special one day Symposium November 16, 2013 University of California, Santa Barbara 11 am, CSNI, Elings Hall, Lab 2611 "To further the development of new modes and technologies for representation and creation in the field of Visual Music, MAT, CVM and Corwin Chair present a one-day symposium investigating the aesthetics, techniques and histories of visual music. The event at UCSB includes a series of 20 minute talks by invited presenters, plus short screenings of historical and contemporary visual music films. Presenters include Clarence Barlow, Cindy Keefer, Jack Ox, Casey Mongoven, and special guest Barbara Fischinger." Source: http://centerforvisualmusic.org/ExploringVM/ PROGRAM 11 am Welcome remarks by Clarence Barlow, UCSB; Introduction to program by Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music, plus 2 open...

Matthew Biederman's work Event Horizon , multichannel HD video, 4.1 audio, custom software, computers 2012, is an incredible sensation of colour. And what can I say but put it that way - a sensation of colour. Commissioned for: 1st Biennial of Digital Art, Montreal and Presented at: Salle McLaren, Cinematheque Quebecqoise May 3 - June 10, 2012. An interview about it is included in the recent Sonic Acts Catalogue, 2013, Dark Universe More information on the work:  http://www.mbiederman.com/Event-Horizon "The work metaphorically explores the phenomenon of the ‘event horizon’. Understood scientifically, the term refers to the space-time beyond which events cannot affect an observer. The most common situation where this occurs naturally are the edges of a black hole, where beyond the event horizon, no light escapes and can therefore not be observed. Taken metaphorically, the event horizon can be understood as the point of perception itself. Event Horizon reflects on the...

SoundImageSound 10 ~ Festival of New Music and Visual Image January 30/31, 2014 Conservatory of Music ~ University of the Pacific ~ Stockton, California Call for Works: This year SoundImageSound celebrates its tenth season with presentations of works by artists who bridge sound and visual image in the creation of compositions sometimes referred to as visual music or intermedia. The festival again hosts an open submission process for new works by artists from around the globe. In honor of its tenth season, SoundImageSound welcomes guest artist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski to the festival. Composer, performer, and intermedia artist, Kapuscinski is on the faculty of Stanford University where he directs the Intermedia Lab at CCRMA. During the festival he will speak about the creation of Linked Verse, an evening-length work that fuses sound and image. Its music is a concerto for cello, Japanese shō, and spatialized sound while its visual landscape is a live rendering of 3D projections ...

Exhibition Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia at Raven Row, London Exhibition tour with Lars Bang Larsen Thursday 31 October, 6.30pm Lars Bang Larsen will lead a tour of the exhibition Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia in conversation with Alex Sainsbury. This event is free but booking is essential as space is very limited. Please email info@ravenrow.org to reserve a place. Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia Exhibition continues until 15 December 2013 To many artists in the sixties who referred to the counterculture, or who used hallucinogenic drugs as an artistic tool, the term ‘psychedelic’ was seen as compromised and the idea of a ‘psychedelic art’ resisted. It is for this reason that ‘psychedelic art’ cannot be easily categorised as a genre; neither can it be understood as an entirely overlooked art form. This exhibition sets out to question what ‘psychedelic art’ might be, and reassess t...

The online article "A Brief History of Optical Synthesis" was written by Derek Holzer in 2007 as part of his Tonewheels project exploring optical sound and colour music. This web article became the basis of a lecture that Derek gives on optical sound and graphical composition. Quote from introduction "The technology of synthesizing sound from light is a curious combination of research from the realms of mathematics, physics, electronics and communications theory which found realization in the industries of motion picture films, music, surveillance technology and finally digital communications. As such, it's history is an interesting cross section of 20th century history, reaching from the euphoria of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century inventors (who often struggled between "scientific" and "supernatural" explainations of their work) through the paradigm-smashing experiments of the Soviet avant-garde in the 1920's and 1930...