Visual Music

Live@CIRMMT presents: Videomusic Videomusic Concert The live@CIRMMT Performance Series includes four to six performances per year that highlight the artistic research output of CIRMMT. http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/videomusic On 8th December, 2016 Live@CIRMMT presented Videomusic presenting videomusic works of the following composers/artists. Bret Battey (US) https://vimeo.com/bathatmedia Julien Beau (France) https://vimeo.com/julienbeau Myriam Boucher (Canada) https://vimeo.com/user20638366 Line Katcho (Canada) https://vimeo.com/user18362331 Further Resources Article: Matter and Emotion: Myriam Boucher’s Waves of Sound and Light Posted by Taliesin Herb in FringeBlog on December 7, 2016 http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/videomusic Myriam Boucher - Cités _excerpt

Shoko Ise (Visuals) and Steve Jansen (Music) -"Swimming In Qualia - Ascent" Swimming In Qualia - Ascent The visuals and music in this music video installation work, "Swimming in Qualia - Ascent" are well matched. The visuals are by Shoko Ise and the music is by Steve Jansen. What strikes me as rather beautiful about this work is the misty, faded, soft look of the visuals in which shadows and suggestions of light coming in from afar are presented and the durations of the transitions and the movement suggest a gentle place. The long tones and gong like sounds suggest an atmosphere of gentle softness also.  There are some beautiful vertical cutting and crossfades of flowers, lilies and leaf foliage that create the most mesmerising effect. A visual technique that I have seen in many works, reminding me of the temporal cut up photographic collages of David Hockney but in the moving image temporal domain, Swimming In Qualia - Ascent Words: Maura McDo...

Ryoichi Kurokawa, arranging the audiovisual display Ryoichi Kurokawa creates stunning audiovisual work for music concert and installation settings. His aesthetic has a recognisable visual and sound, although that aesthetic does appear in lots of other visual and sound approaches by other artists working at this time, one can still recognise Kurokawa’s work. I did a bookmark type blog post in 2009 about his work. Revisiting his work and examining the documentaiton on his website (a really lovely experience in itself), his work has really developed in the interim period and in particular what is of note is his use of the display in his work in which he arranges in unusual positions. For example, in rheo: 5 horizons, the 5 HD plasma displays are arranged not horizontally but vertically and in sequence, each of these displays are fed a channel of video and there is 5 channels of sound. His recent work unfold (2016), consists of three projections arranged in a curvature presentat...

Un Souririe by Aurora Gasull  Auroral Gasull has been working in Visual Music for the last 10 years. Her latest work in ‘ Un Souririe ’ (A Smile) with music of Olivier Messiaen. This is a very beautiful animation, that has many visual worlds presentet to us akin to phrases in music, in which a visual world explores the music world and changes and transforms. Some very evocative scenes, for example, a really lovely expansive scene of colours shapes that work as a whole but which expand and contract into stretched or compressed shapes - lovely motion experiences. http://www.aurora.cat/auroraunsourire/ From biography on her website 'Born in Barcelona, cellist and member of a number of chamber groups up to 1990, she first approaches visual arts through photography, drawing and painting. She gains experience in multimedia with interactive design and does a Master in Musical Creation and Sound Technology (Pompeu Fabra University) and finally specializes in 3D with a Master in...

Visual Music Salon November 18, Los Angeles: A CVM Salon Event, in association with Blindspot Project. Featuring films by Jordan Belson, Joshua Light Show, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, David Lebrun, Harry Smith, John Stehura, Jud Yalkut, plus contemporary videos by Bret Battey, Scott Draves, Chris Harvey, Christina McPhee, Steve Woloshen and more. 16mm prints and digital, A Visual Music Salon - CVM and Blindspot presented by Cindy Keefer of CVM ; filmmakers Lebrun and Harvey in person. PLUS Live Music by Golden Animals, featuring liquid light show by The Blindspot Project and Joshua Payne Orchestra, featuring live video painting by Ryan Patrick Griffith More information: See Facebook Events Announcement for up to date information https://www.facebook.com/events/1834564693422053/ They will be screening screening the Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show film (1970) from archive

Video of performance of KIMA by Analemma Group and Union Chapel Organ Project at Union Chapel From description on Youtube Published on 25 Apr 2015 "In an epochal site-specific performance night, London based art collective Analema Group and the Union Chapel Organ Project transformed Union Chapel’s ornate wooden ceiling into a canvas for real time visual music . KIMA – ‘wave’ in ancient Greek – interprets music as interplay of light and form, an artistic quest for a new reading of sound. KIMA uses mathematical equations of cymatics – sound waves creating patterns on matter to organize sound in visual way. In Mare Undarum, Joby Burgess (powerplant) performed percussion improvisation with Claire M Singer – accompanied by the dancer Estela Merlos (previously at Rambert Dance Company). The second piece, Axis Mundi, brought together Robert Ames, London Contemporary Orchestra’s artistic director and Laura Moody (Elysian Quartet) and Claire M Singer on the organ. The evening came to a clo...

Beautiful animations from Matt Abbis From Matt’s website: Matt Abbiss animates, draws and lectures (mainly about animation). Website: http://cargocollective.com/abbiss Point by Matt Abbis