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Jim Andrews - Interactive Audio + Color music + Digital Poetry - 2022

Jim Andrews Jim Andrews is a net artist, poet, programmer, visual and audio artist, mathematician and essayist. Andrews has created a new interactive audio, colour music and digital poetry application, titled Enigma n2022 that can be accessed via the internet in your own browser to create a variety of sounds and visual music. First use is free, then the app can be purchased and downloaded from a range of app stores. From the words of Jim in his press release, he describes Enigma n2022 as "a philosophical music & poetry toy for poets, musicians & philosophers from the age of 7 up. This is a new sort of poem. A new sort of music. A new sort of toy. A new sort of instrument. A new sort of art. This puts it all together." Credits:  Jim Andrews: Concept, code, design, visuals, audio Natalie Funk: Design consultant, App developer Jeremy Owen Turner: Art consultant There are many modes of interacting with the controls, for example: "If you do nothing, it performs in ...

PUBLICATION: Synesthesia: intersensory aspects of cognitive activity in science and art

PUBLICATION:  Synesthesia: intersensory aspects of cognitive activity in science and art Svetlana Rudenko (Pianist) and Maura McDonnell (Visual Music Artist) - Visual Music Collaboration on Scriabin Piano Sonata No.5., Moscow, 2019 Cover of Publication: Proceedings of the II International Conference of the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS) The book consists of the proceedings and materials of the II International Conference of the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS).  The title of the conference was  Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects of Cognition Across Science and Art and it was held in Moscow.   The editor-in-chief for this publication is A.V. Sidoroff-Dorso ( IASAS Vice President  of Academics, Science, and Global Enterprise) ISBN: 978-94051-260-8 Publisher:  Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University Year of publication: 2021 Format: online edition ŠŸŠ¾Ń€Ń‚Š°Š» ŠæсŠøхŠ¾...

CALL FOR WORKS - MuVi6 - VISUAL MUSIC

MuVi6 (2022) MuVi6 invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of videos to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. Visual Music exhibition is part of the VII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science & Art", to be held from the 26th to the 29th of October 2022, Faculty of Fine Art "Alonso Cano", University of Granada, and Convento de Capuchinos, AlcalĆ” la Real (JaĆ©n, Spain) Deadline for Submissions Latest date for submissions is 30 May 2022. Dates of Exhibition 26th to the 29th of October 2022. Where AlcalĆ” la Real, JaĆ©n, Spain (Convento de Capuchinos) Granada, Spain (University of Granada, Faculty of Fine Arts "Alonso Cano") Topic The topic of the exhibition is visual music and synesthesia. For “visual music”, we intend every representation to be only visual or audiovisual, suggested by the music. The correspondences between the visual and music can ...

FORTHCOMING BOOK: Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice

BOOK: L ive Visuals  History, Theory, Practice Edited By Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka Copyright Year 2023  Available to order July 2022 Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice Book Cover - 1st Edition https://www.routledge.com/Live-Visua-ls-History-Theory-Practice/Gibson-Arisona-Leishman-Tanaka/p/book/9781032252681 ISBN 9781032252681 July 29, 2022 Forthcoming by Routledge 576 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects, and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real-time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’ mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord in the 18th Century, to the visual music of the mid-20th Century, to the liquid light shows of the 1960s, and finally to the virtual reality and projection mapping of present moment, Live Visuals is both an over-a...

The Art of Sound and Light, St Petersburg

SECOND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "THE ART OF SOUND AND LIGHT", SAINT PETERSBURG, took place from OCTOBER 18–20, 2021. The conference was online this year.  The conference was organised and hosted by: The Department of Organology inside the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, the Foundation for support of the audiovisual and technological art “Prometheus” (Foundation “Galeev-Prometheus”) and Sergey Zorin’s Optical Theater.  https://artcenter.ru/en/second-international-scientific-and-practical-conference-the-art-of-sound-and-light/   The three day event was co-ordinated by Olga Viktorovna Kolganova — Department of Organology Scientific Research Scientist, Russian Institute for the History of Art (St. Petersburg). The organising committee was: Olga Viktorovna Kolganova, Anastasia Borisovna Maksimova - Associate Professor of Kazan State Power Engineering University, Jƶrg Jewanski - Adjunct Professor at the University of MĆ¼nster, Germany, S...

Call for Paper Submissions - The Art of Sound and Light - St Petersberg

Second International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Art of Sound and Light" - Deadline September 10th 2021 Call for Paper Submissions - Second International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Art of Sound and Light" (to be held St. Petersburg, October 18–20, 2021 and with online Zoom facility to attend and present).  Details below. The deadline for applications for the International Scientific Conference "The Art of Sound and Light" has been extended until September 10th 2021 - Submit Abstracts for papers for this conference.  Applications for participation in the conference are accepted until September 10, 2021 to: email addresses: kolganova.spb@gmail.com or instrum_conf@mail.ru   Information THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY AUDIOVISUAL SUPPORT Fund AND TECHNOLOGICAL ART OF "PROMETEY" BY B. M. GALEEV (GALEV-PROMETEUS Foundation) OPTICAL THEATRE SERGEY ZORIN Second International SCIE...

Crash Ensemble - [R E A C T I O N S] - Ireland

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...