Visual Music

New Music Dublin 2021 New Music Dublin was held online this year. Several musicians, music ensembles, artists, producers, composers brought us over 15 virtual performances with 33 world premieres of new music compositions and it was streamed on http://newmusicdublin.ie. A quote of the sheer effort to bring this festival to fruition is below. So New Music Dublin 2021 is, explicitly, a festival for lockdown conditions. It’s a set of ideas, a programme made up of solutions to the question posed above: how do we make music together, when we can’t be together? These solutions stretch from how to get orchestras back together – both on stage, and remotely – through to making music individually, and from music beamed-over-thousands-of-miles internationally, to wholly unobserved and unwitnessed private music-making. Every event in New Music Dublin is framed and presented in this spirit of exploration, enquiry and engagement, of existing despite the existential threats we all face. Sour...

A really interesting development for a multimedia company to provide music concert visuals that you can purchase online. Ion Concert Media is a multimedia company based in Minneapolis, MN, US, that have developed Muséik, a new digital sync software that makes it easy to synchronize digital media with live music for Orchestra,   Concert Band, Choirs, Worship, Rock & Pop and Theater.  Many of the productions work with images and music in a style akin to a visual music production.  Ion Concert Media are providing development opportunities for visual and music live show producing, to what they say is digital show control for the 21st Century. Information Muséik combines revolutionary digital sync technology with an online library of pre-licensed rentable digital show content to create the world's easiest and most affordable solution for sourcing and presenting high quality digital assets for live shows.  On their website you will find, you can purchase video and audi...

An interesting visual exploring a type of digital nature in the new music project "Flows" recently released by Freska and with music video collaboration by AUJIK. PRESS RELEASE In "Flows", the two artists Freska and AUJIK tried to visualize and voice the paradox of nature, which is its refinement and primitiveness and creates a conflict of these two categories, leading to chaos in this world, through which evolution is born.  Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, DNA manipulations, and body enhancements. The Primitive includes fauna, flora, and the Earth itself with its precious stones, minerals, and metals. The pulsating foliage and advanced interfaces that emerge in the biosphere serve as sacred artifacts, visions of a futurist environment. Through crossbreeds of biotic and technological systems, animism for the Digital Age presents new possibilities for evolution and strives for Post-Human nirvana....

Alberto Novello is a new media artist and visual music composer who uses laser, modified CRT monitors and oscilloscopes to create audiovisual compositions in which the sound and video signals are the same.  He works on collaborations. Alberto Novello - Frame from Feedback Plane#2 Alberto Novello's art practice approach "Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN ’s practice uses found or decontextualized analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repurposes and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the natural vibrance of ana...

Julie Watkins, a practicing visual music artist and theories the in field published the following paper, 'Composing Visual Music: Visual Music Practice at the Intersection of Technology, Audio-visual Rhythms and Human Traces' in 2018. It is published by the Body, Space & Technology journal and is available to read on their website. Read Online:  https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/10.16995/bst.296/# This article is an excellent article on Visual Music and it raises several theoretical ideas as well as analysis of the author's own visual music practice and research intertwined with a very rich source of references to key texts and works in the field. Harvard Citation: Watkins, J., 2018. Composing Visual Music: Visual Music Practice at the Intersection of Technology, Audio-visual Rhythms and Human Traces. Body, Space & Technology, 17(1), pp.51–75. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/bst.296 Reservoir Image retrieved from  https://vimeo.com/181309546   Copyright 2014 b...

2020 marks the fifth year of the SOUND/IMAGE colloquium held at University of Greenwich, London. For 2020, the colloquium is celebrating the publication of an edited volume, featuring artists and academics who have participated in the first years of the conference.   Sound Image Exhibition - University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street Building The book reference is: KNIGHT-HILL, A (2021) Sound & Image: Aesthetics and Practices. Routledge: New York.  https://www.routledge.com/Sound-and-Image-Aesthetics-and-Practices/Knight-Hill/p/book/9780367271466 To celebrate the achievements and continuing success of the SOUND/IMAGE conference, they have hosted an exhibition in the Project Space at the University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street Building The exhibition featured audiovisual works from the book artist contributors. This very cool 360 video documentation features excerpts of works by: Louise Harris - Alocas Philip Sanderson - Tracking Bret Battey - Estuaries 3 Video Embed of 36...

The SeenSound: Visual/Music series provides a space for the presentation of short visual/music works.  "SeenSound is a regular monthly event in Melbourne, Australia, showcasing a wide range of local and international audio-visual works from around the world, with a specific focus on live improvisation. Running formally since 2012, SeenSound emerged from the work of local a/v artists Brigid Burke, Mark Pedersen and Roger Alsop, and has expanded to include a host of regular contributors and guests." Source: [ link ] The Visual/Music series commenced in 2011, curated by Melbourne-based audio-visual artist Brigid Burke, and is supported by Loop bar.   In recent times, it has been curating and presenting monthly editions and screenings online, archived on their website as 'Seensound Livestream' and which can be attended live for a small fee.  As a result of these livestreams new audiences from around the world can attend the editions. October Seensound Livestream - Sound...