Visual Music

Early 20th Century Drawn Sound - Russia

2013-05-15T16:34:00.000+01:00

Some excellent resources now available in relation to the early 20th Century Drawn Sound experiments that took place in Russia. This recent news comes from some very timely facebook posts by the Center for Visual Music.

Andrei Smirnov's book 'Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia is just recently published and is available in Europe to purchase. Andrei presented an incredible paper at the recent 'Seeing Sound Symposium', 2011, held in Bath Spa of which I attended and saw and heard the incredible work and experiments presented in relation to this period.

"Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia

Edited by David Rogerson, Matt Price. Foreword by Jeremy Deller. Text by Andrei Smirnov.
Sound in Z supplies the astounding and long-lost chapter in the early story of electronic music: the Soviet experiment, a chapter that runs from 1917 to the late 1930s. Its heroes are Arseny Avraamov, inventor of Graphic Sound (drawing directly onto magnetic tape) and a 48-note scale; Alexei Gastev, who coined the term “bio-mechanics”; Leon Theremin, inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, the Theremin; and others whose dreams for electronic sound were cut short by Stalin's regime. Drawing on materials from numerous Moscow archives, this book reconstructs Avraamov's “Symphony of Sirens,” an open-air performance for factory whistles, foghorns and artillery fire first staged in 1922, explores Graphic Sound and recounts Theremin's extraordinary career—compiling the first full account of Russian electronic music."
Source: http://www.artbook.com/9783865607065.html

Preview documentaries on youtube

Some youtube videos now have some early documentations from this time

Watch a documentary now on youtube of Nikolai Voinov's 'paper sound' from the 1930s Russian Drawn Sound Era.

Youtube Embed 'Nikolai Voinov's 'paper sound' from the 1930s Russian Drawn Sound Era.'

Youtube link: http://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82M

"Nikolai Voinov (1900-1958) demonstrates the techniques of Paper Sound and the creation of music for animation. The demonstration includes two short animations:

"Rachmaninov Prelude", 1932 (1:07)
"The Dance of the Crow", 1933 (2:11)"

Source: http://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82M

Lumigraph Performance by Barbara Fischinger

2012-11-27T11:22:00.001Z

Important Exhibition on the Works of Oskar Fischinger co-organized by the Center for Visual Music

Source Link

16th December, 2012, 14.00pm

Two Events

Performance by Barbara Fischinger, on Oskar Fischinger's Lumigraph
Oskar Fischinger Retrospective - Program Two: Rare Works - Screening of Rare Works by Oskar Fischinger (60 min)

EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam

A very special event, a rarely performed: Lumigraph performance by Barbara Fischinger, assisted by Cindy Keefer at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, before a screening of Oskar Fischinger's rarely seen works, Retrospective - Program Two: Rare Works (compilation )

More information about the Lumigraph Performance
http://eyefilm.nl/sites/default/files/Dancing%20With%20Your%20Hands.pdf

More information on Oskar Fischinger Retro - Program Two: Rare Works
(compilation )
http://www.eyefilm.nl/en/oskar-fischinger-retro-program-two-rare-works?show_id=635365

Oskar Fischinger Retrospective - Program Two: Rare Works:

"Wax Experiments, 1921-1926, b/w, silent, 6 min. A selection of experiments made with Fischinger’s wax slicing machine. Several versions exist; some of the experiments were tinted, though most of those do not survive.

[Early Experiments and Tests] and [Berlin Home Movies], c. 1922-1932, b/w, silent, 5 min. A compilation reel of various animation experiments, plus footage of Oskar, Elfriede and Hans Fischinger in his Berlin studio c. 1930.

[Pierrette I ], from Münchener Bilderbogen Series 1924-26, b/w, silent. Reconstructed by Moritz from original material.

Study No. 1, (c. 1929, b/w, 2 min), silent, originally accompanied by live organists, music unknown

Studie nr. 3, 1930, b/w, silent. 4 min

Study No. 9, 1931, b/w, sound, 3 min. Music: Brahms, “Hungarian Dance No. 6.” With animation by his brother Hans, under Oskar’s direction.

Ornamente Ton (Ornament Sound), c. 1932, b/w, sound, 2 min. A selection of Fischinger’s experiments using synthetic or “drawn” sound patterns photographed onto the optical track. Title added later; assembly by Moritz.

[Liebesspiel] (Love Games), c. 1934, b/w, silent, 2 min (may have originally been synchronized to music, unknown)

Swiss Trip (Rivers and Landscapes), 1934, b/w, sound, 11 min. Music: Bach: “Brandenburg Concerto no. 3.” Shot during a Swiss vacation; prefigures his masterpiece Motion Painting no. 1 which uses the same soundtrack.

[Euthymol Ad: Pink Guards on Parade], 1935, color, sound, unfinished (Moritz recreation, 2000, 3 min). Originally 35mm, screened digitally.

Oklahoma Gas ad film, c. 1952, b/w, sound, 1 min. Screened digitally.

[Motion Painting 2 and 3 fragments], c. 1957-60, color, silent, 1 min. Originally 16mm. Late experiments made by filming his painting.

Muntz TV ad, 1952, b/w, sound, 1 min.

Lumigraph I, 1969, 16mm (by Elfriede Fischinger). Color, silent. Documentation of a Lumigraph performance by Elfriede; originally performed to various music.

Introduction by Cindy Keefer (Center for Visual Music)

Programs provided by and curated by Center for Visual Music. All prints are 35mm. Program notes by CVM unless noted.
Prints were preserved by Center for Visual Music, Academy Film Archive, EYE Film Institute and Fischinger Trust, with the support of Film Foundation, Sony, The National Film Preservation Foundation and private donors.

For more about Fischinger: www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films DVD can be purchased at Center for Visual Music.

Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst

2012-11-24T20:37:00.000Z

Source: Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst, CVM page

Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst, a new recreation by the Center for Visual Music of Oskar Fischinger's 1920s multiple-projector performance is installed in a number of museums.
It is installed in Tate Modern, London on the 5th Floor, Collection Displays until 17th May 2013 - so if you get a chance do go and see.
Tate Modern, London, through May 17, 2013, 5th Floor, Collection Displays
I have seen this installation in Tate Modern and was lucky to be at its opening. The interplay of Fischinger's visuals across the three screens is a real visual music feast. The quality of the images were really beautiful as well as the presentation and very large scale installation. The installation has its own dedicated dark room space. Quite wonderful to see the work of such a pivotal, historical pioneer of visual music in Tate Modern

It was also installed in The Whitney Museum, New York from June 28- October 28.

Further Links:
Tate Modern - Oskar Fischinger - 1 June 2012 – 12 May 2013
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/oskar-fischinger
More information about Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Raumlichtkunst.html

A Concrete Cinema?

2012-11-13T17:47:00.000Z

A Concrete Cinema? one of several articles and presentations by Christian Gosvig Olesen on the Curating the Moving Image Blog. Christian has researched this area with great thoroughness and his articles are an excellent resource for those tracking the history of visual music and audiovisual work where there one of its main focuses is on music. In contemporary audiovisual practice, visuals are presented with electroacoustic music and in particular there are many contemporary flavours of music concrete music being used alongside a visual equivalent - a moving image concrete. Concrete cinema is a most apt term here as used by Christian in his articles. He traces the connections with Pierre Schaeffer, whom used the term cinéma concret to describe the intention to work with cinema and music where the cinema is 'A visual counterpoint to what he, together with fellow composer Pierre Henry, had conceived as musique concrète in the late 1940′s." [Source: http://2011.curatingthemovingimage.org/blog/2011/03/16/3075/ ]

Website links:
Articles and posts by Christian Gosvig Olesen
A Concrete Cinema? link
Schaeffer on media research within the O.R.T.F. link
Aural Vision and Non-Sense – A certain cinema… that one could call concrete link
Concrete Cinema – Moodboard + Sketches link
Concrete cinema – Visual Exploration link
A brief note on the term “Concrete cinema” link
A Sketch for a retrospective of Concrete cinema link
Christian's workplan link

Étude aux allures-1960 - Pierre Schaeffer, Raymond Hains

2012-10-25T16:59:00.000+01:00

"This work is the result of a chance meeting between two studies: one sound: a study by Pierre Schaeffer , the other visual: sequences shot by the artist Raymond Hains with fluted lens whose movements multiply and colorful animated graphics."
google translate from website link below

Link: http://www.ina.fr/fresques/artsonores/fiche-media/InaGrm00201/etude-aux-allures.html

Article: Aural Vision and Non-Sense – A certain cinema… that one could call concrete on Curating the Moving Image Blog and article post A concrete cinema link

Mark Rowan-Hull - Performance Painting

2012-10-01T19:08:00.000+01:00

Mark Rowan-Hull - Performance Painting

Mark explores 'the invigorating ephemeral qualities of visual art and the encapsulating of time in Music via performance'. He creates and performs painting responding to music.

"In order to publicise his ideas of visualising music Mark embarked on a series of exciting performances and events involving painting live on stage responding to music by composers such as Messiaen, Scriabin, Debussy, Shostakovich and George Crumb together with Jazz and improvisation. These performances took place in a wide variety of settings including the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Festival Hall, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club.

source: http://www.rowan-hull.com/biography/

Website: http://www.rowan-hull.com/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/rowanhull

Performance at South Bank Centre, November 2011

https://vimeo.com/42782825

Lis Rhodes - Light Music - Tate, London

2012-09-25T14:54:00.000+01:00

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU HEAR

Lis Rhodes recent work, Light Music is installed in Tate Modern, London, Uk from 18th July - 28th October, 2012.
"Light Music is an innovative work presented originally as a performance that experiments with celluloid and sound to push the formal, spatial and performative boundaries of cinema. An iconic work of expanded cinema, it creates a more central and participatory role for the viewer within a dynamic, immersive environment...
Light Music is Rhodes’s response to what she perceived as the lack of attention paid to women composers in European music. She composed a ‘score’ comprised of drawings that form abstract patterns of black and white lines onscreen. The drawings are printed onto the optical edge of the filmstrip. As the bands of light and dark pass through the projector they are ‘read’ as audio, creating an intense soundtrack, forming a direct, indexical relationship between the sonic and the visual. What one hears is the aural equivalent to the flickering patterns on the screens."
Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks/display/lis-rhodes-light-music

Documentary of Lis Rhodes - Tate Modern

On this webpage, you can view a documentary created by Tate Modern as part of their 'The Tanks: Art in Action'. Lis Rhodes talking about her work and the ideas at work and discusses the ideas at work, from synchronisaiton, documentary, commercial fiction.

Lis Rhodes - Dresden Dynamo (1971 - 1972)
Rhodes "made a film without a camera where the sound track is exactly the image and the image is exactly the sound track. That relationship between an image and a sound, instead of being maybe added later, maybe dubbed was actually synced from the moment it was made, exactly. So what you see is what you hear."

CIRCUS 5.1 - Computer Programs - Music - Graphics

2012-05-03T20:55:00.001+01:00

Sergio Maltagliati

CIRCUS 5.1

UNICUM GRAPHICS

The images of HomeArt programs by Pietro Grossi, are proposed through software by Sergio Maltagliati. This is a software which generates always different graphical variations. It is based on HomeArt’s Basic source code. The music program produces an automatic and generative music,starting from a simple sound cell.
Visu@lMusic/HomeArt
www.visualmusic.it
free video download:
http://www.pietrogrossi.org/cerchio4_2_unicum.7z
download images:
http://www.pietrogrossi.org/Cerchio_4_2%20immagini.7z

About

"A/V interactive compositions on the NET by Sergio Maltagliati

Beginning with netOper@ in 1997, Sergio Maltagliati has created works on the Internet that combine audio and video elements into an intriguing interactive Internet experience. As far as a formal education, Maltagliati studied music at the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, Italy. Shortly after he finished his education at the Conservatory he began to paint. He then created his own style of combining the two practices into interactive web sites where the viewer is invited to compose a unique work by simple mouse manipulations. Maltagliati often collaborated with a famous electronic music professor from Italy named Pietro Grossi. Grossi was the first person to introduce the infamous experimental musician from America, John Cage, to Italy in 1964. In 1965 Grossi was offered the first professorship teaching electronic music in Italy. The professorship was at the Conservatory in Florence where Maltagliati later attended."
Source: http://www.visualmusic.it/biography.htm

VIEW 8 VIDEO CLIPS ONLINE of CIRCUS 5.1
YouTube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A3999413A79BE6E

Example 1 - Youtube embed:

Pietro Grossi / Sergio Maltagliati - Circus_8 (1)

Youtube link: http://youtu.be/9ftWjiZKje0

Do view the other videos in this series, playlist link provided above.

COMMENT:
What a very interesting find - project. Using programs to generate graphics and music originating in early computer music programs for computer and tape composition, this is a great discovery, thanks to Sergio for getting in touch.

still from Circus 8 (1)

OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT

2012-04-26T10:35:00.001+01:00

OSKAR FISCHINGER: SPACE LIGHT ART—A FILM ENVIRONMENT

JUNE 28–OCTOBER 28, 2012

Whitney Museum, Los Angeles

"This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made—Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a recreation of his multiple-screen film events first shown in Germany in 1926, recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in its format, its multiple screens of abstract shapes, color, and light produced an experience that, in Fischinger’s own description of his work, created “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.”

Source and for more information visit:
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OskarFischinger

Visit Center for Visual Music (CVM) events page for more visual music exhibitions and events
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm

Samadhi by David West

2012-04-03T20:01:00.000+01:00

David West's very beautiful piece exploring that luminous quality of light and colour.

"Samadhi is a visual music work that is a tribute to the films of computer graphic pioneers, John and James Whitney. The term 'samadhi' is a Sanskrit term for a higher level of awareness. The graphics were produced in Autodesk Maya using fluids and particles."
The soundtrack is called 'Evolution' by Absorption

http://youtu.be/2yppl2T1Djs

Youtube embed

Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons

2012-03-03T13:02:00.000Z

Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons on vimeo
http://vimeo.com/31319154

I previously posted an excerpt from the stunning rheo: 5 from the youtube website. Ryoichi Kurokawa's vimeo channel is worth checking out and the wonderful rheo: 5 is on that.

This is a beautiful work, and there is something about odd numbers. The arrangement into 5 screens is really interesting, it reminds me also of the earlier work Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes - again an arrangement of an odd number of screens, this time 3, it also deals with horizon.
I did a short blog post on my other blog - sounding visual blog on Roy Lichtenstein's Three Landscapes, recently reshown.
see: http://soundingvisual.blogspot.com/2012/01/roy-lichtensteins-three-landscapes.html

Excerpt
Ryoichi Kurokawa - rheo: 5 horizons
"Audiovisual installation2010
5 HD displays | 5ch multi sound
Duration: 08'00" Loop"

rheo: 5 horizons from RYOICHI KUROKAWA on Vimeo.

Website: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/

Jean Detheux - "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..."

2012-02-27T15:04:00.000Z

Jean Detheux - "...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..."

what a great title - posting latest news on Jean Detheux's visual music work

"...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." is a film in 6 movements, based on related texts of E. E. Cummings that focus on themes of nature and the cycle of life. The sonic material, created by Mikel Kuehn mikelkuehn.com/, is derived from manipulated environmental sounds and the recitation of Cummings texts by soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn. The images were created first (the idea was to create a life in 4 parts, followed by a "recollection" of that life, as if at the moment of death, in the 5th and final movement). The sonic material came later and added an in-between part, visually blank, thus bringing the total to 6 movements."

[The work with be presented at The Thirteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Symposium 2012
Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London Connecticut 06320, US]

"Film will be presented on March 1st, at 8:00 p.m., as part of a Multi-Media concert at Evans Hall.
Also, on March 2 at 1:30 p.m., composer Mikel Kuehn will give a talk on the geneis of this piece: “Forging Creative Pathways though Collaboration: Detheux and Kuehn’s ...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings...”
source: http://visualmusic.ning.com/events/visual-music-at-the-13th-biennial-symposium-on-arts-and

"...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." from Jean Detheux on Vimeo.

see also: http://vimeo.com/18551194

The Aeonchild Visualist Project

2012-02-22T09:31:00.002Z

Jt Root, music-visualist and VJ known as Aeonchild, works out of Boulder, Colorado as a Production Designer and Live VJ Performer. Recently has created a visualist piece - The Aeonchild Visualist Project, a commissioned work by Ballet Nouveau Colorado's production of "Love in the Digital Age".

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeonchild/6820176415/in/photostream

I am very taken with the term 'visualist' or 'music-visualist' that Aeonchild uses to describe his process of interpreting music, here is a quote from his website explaining this term.

"Aeonchild’s work re-interprets music into a visual language, spinning cosmic messages with symmetrical precision. Through the use of motion graphics, video, light and color, he mixes futuristic visions with ancient symbols of sacred geometry. The result is a visceral experience that fuses sight and sound while teasing the senses with visible rhythms."

Source: http://aeonchild.com/about/

The Aeonchild Visualist Project

"Opportunity" by Brasstronaut

The Aeonchild Visualist Project - "Opportunity" by Brasstronaut from Jt Root on Vimeo.

Love in the Digital age is a "wickedly passionate collision of dance and multimedia reveling in the most irresistible, intoxicating force on the planet: LOVE."

Source and more information on this performance at: http://bncdance.com/company/performances/season-10/love-in-the-digital-age/

Daniel Palacios - Waves

2012-02-19T16:18:00.000Z

Daniel Palacios - Waves

"A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element...

But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations."

Source: http://danielpalacios.info/en/waves

Vimeo Link

Waves from Daniel Palacios on Vimeo.

Vimeo Description of video documentation

"Waves' utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installation. The string between the two motorized chambers reacts to the people presence and movements, it twirls to produce a sine-wave simulation that eloquently resembles both the digitization of real-time sound waves and patterns of flow and connectivity found in natural systems.

The simple act of making the "invisible" visible can produce profound effects in both our understanding of the world around us and the close relationship we have to the natural and built environment that we occupy daily. Although the project may seem like a simple visualization of intangible forms, it nevertheless connects to our visceral side by creating unique sound output and striking visual stimuli that engage with "persistence of vision" and our connection to the spaces we occupy and their sonic and electromagnetic inhabitants."
Source: http://vimeo.com/12075151

Colour Music Recollections - Sonic Acts, 2012

2012-02-19T13:38:00.000Z

As part of the Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time Festival, a programme on Colour Music is being shown on 24th February, 2012

Colour Music Recollections
De Balie
Friday 24 February
17:00 - 18:30

"A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles Dockum on his ‘Mobilcolor’ instrument, the first recreation of Oskar Fischinger‘s multi-projector shows and a rare screening of documentation of the 1968 recreation by Kurt Schwerdtfeger of the very first light experiments at the Bauhaus.
This programme will mark the launch of the posthumous publication of the book The Academy of the Senses, Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education by Frans Evers, one of the founders of both the Sonic Acts festival and the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. The programme will be introduced by Joost Rekveld.
This programme has been made possible with the kind support of Center for Visual Music."

Source: http://2012.sonicacts.com/index.php#film-screening-colour-music-recollections-post

Programme

Kurt Schwerdtfeger
Reflektorische Farblichtspiele(1922/1968, 18’, 16mm colour)

Oskar Fischinger
R-1, ein Formspiel(1926-1933/1993, 1993 recreation by Bill Moritz, 7′, 35 mm cinemascope, B&W and colour) (print from Center for Visual Music)

Jud Yalkut
Turn, Turn, Turn(1966, 10′, 16 mm colour)

Charles Dockum
1969 Mobilcolor Projector film(1969, 15’, 16 mm colour, silent)

Hy Hirsh
Come Closer(1953, 7’, 16 mm, colour)

soundmachines

2012-02-16T16:15:00.001Z

Soundmachines - an instrument for performing electronic music

"Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.

The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen New Beetle stand at the IAA motor show in late Summer 2011. In cooperation with the sounddesigner/ producer Yannick Labbé of TRICKSKI fame, we developed three unique discs, each controlling one track of an Ableton Live Set exclusively made for the Event. The show was supported by a set of realtime generated visuals, running on a 25m wide LED wall."

source: http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines

Vimeo demonstration

see also: http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/soundmachines-objects-sound/

Musical Matrix of the Universe - Konstantin Zadorozhnikov

2012-02-15T09:40:00.000Z

Very interesting projects - book, CD, research by Konstantin Zadorozhnikov on cimatics/cymatics and music. Konstantin Zadorozhnikov composes music according to i-ching, and used cymatics to demonstrate the beautiful patterns this creates. However, this kind of music and cymatics is used in a muscial feng sui to provide a type of healing in a home.

"Based on his discoveries, he created the project musical matrix, which gained fame through a series of "Symphony of Change", executable "Konstantin Magical Mystery Orchestra". This music is unusual is the fact that mathematically corresponds exactly to the universal matrix of I-Ching, which is called "Chinese Bible" and "Ancient computer. Scientifically proven and compliance of the matrix system of genetic coding. Creating a "musical mandalas - the most important way of musical Fee Shui. Using the work "Symphony of Change" is not necessary to carry out complex calculations to specify the acoustic parameters, since the musical matrix, as the system I Ching, is universal, that is, to contain a coded information about all objects and phenomena of the universe. "
http://healingmusic.jimdo.com/

Russian website with more information: http://magicalmusic.jimdo.com

Demonstration: Musical I-Ching as Cymatic

http://youtu.be/zfBa0534PKY

Scott Snibbe - MotionPhone app for iPad

2012-02-12T11:09:00.000Z

Scott Snibbe a media artist, filmmaker and researcher in interactivity and an artist whose work embraces visual music approaches, has just released a really interesting application for the iPad, whereby an individual or a networked group of individuals can create visual music type animations together, using a responsive animation with touch. The animations look very beautiful, are customisable and look like a lot of fun to experiment with or to perform with?

Link to MotionPhone App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motionphone-hd/id373089458?mt=8usg=AFQjCNGrpboR5cOaBX_E-QXl6GW0uh8Gtw

Information about MotionPhone on Scott's website:
http://www.snibbe.com/blog/2012/02/03/motionphone/

The really interesting aspect of this project/application is that it is based on Scott's original development of Motion Phone 23 years ago in 1995, where he developed a networked version using Silicon Graphics workstations and this very version was seen by many contemporary interactive animation developers since such as Golan Levin, John Maeda and many others, so good that Scott has adapted this original idea into new technology.

Visual Music influences for Scott in the development of this application are Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye.

Scott Snibbe website: http://www.snibbe.com/

Pedro Mari/ Defetto - πάντα ῥει

2012-01-22T16:54:00.002Z

Pedro Mari/ Defetto

Very beautiful harmonious colour - very musical, like the harmonics available in a music tone. These images are as beautiful still as they are in motion.

source image: http://www.defetto.com/1117/14230/works/iiiii-aii-panta-rhei
see also flickr: flickr.com/photos/defetto/sets/72157602683025565/

"Everything is subject to change.
The harmony of things is contained in their perennial change.
This change is not random or chaotic; it is governed by precise rhythms.
πάντα ῥει is an eternal flow, constantly evolving, never equal to himself."
source: http://www.defetto.com/1117/14230/works/iiiii-aii-panta-rhei

Vimeo embed (silent)

πάντα ῥει from defetto on Vimeo.

Website: http://www.defetto.com/
vimeo: http://vimeo.com/defetto

Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński - Awake

2012-01-17T11:14:00.000Z

Visual artist - Video artist - Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński
hypnotic neon like imagery - a kind of beat video - forwards, backwards motion, light filled colour. Colour with a hint of volume, graphical figures with a slight sense of depth. Lovely
(I am in a one word, adjective type description mode these days!)

Awake

Awake from Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński on Vimeo.

Minimal music vs minimal visualisation.
Music: Emptyset - Awake
Picture: Mikołaj Pasiński
http://vimeo.com/12325755

Staub Leben - Live reactive environment.

2012-01-16T17:54:00.001Z

Arístides García
Staub Leben - Live reactive environment

This is quite incredible - in its drama, and visual impact and performance.

Staub Leben Vimeo Link http://vimeo.com/34756702

Staub Leben from lasal on Vimeo.

Credits for project on vimeo link

"UdK Berlin, Intermediales Bewegungslabor.
Campus-Kollision, Januar 2012, HZT-Uferstudios.

Prof. Nik Haffner: Projektleitung.
Arístides García: Projektleitung, Konzept, Programmierung.
Nikola Pieper: Technische Leitung.

Körper:
Emilia Pfohl, Marine Bertrand, Hanne Müller, Marieke Hohberge, Swann Nowak.

Juan Gabriel Harcha : Tanzer.
Hannes Mück : Kamera."

Arístides García - website link
http://aristidesgarcia.tumblr.com/works

Richard Lainhart - Wonderful Audio Visual Compositions

2012-01-06T21:02:00.003Z

Richard Lainhart's audio visual work I have been a fan of, ever since I encountered one of my favourite audio visual works, Pneuma. I have already blogged about this work previously. I am very saddened to hear that Richard died on the 30th December, 2011. So as a tribute to him and his wonderful piece Pneuma, I am reposting it here and am very saddened to hear this news.

PNEUMA - Richard Lainhart

http://vimeo.com/1014353

Pneuma from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.

"Pneuma" is based on growth patterns generated by celluar automata software, processed in Adobe After Effects to create constantly changing structures ranging from the crystalline to the architectural. The soundtrack is a live improvisation on the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer, controlled by the Haken Audio Continuum Fingerboard fretless keyboard controller. This HD version was rendered in May, 2008.

Warning: "Pneuma" displays an intense, periodic flicker pattern that some may find uncomfortable. Those subject to seizures should not view this film."

VIDEODROME 2012 - Call For Works

2011-12-21T17:51:00.001Z

Call for Submissions: VIDEODROME 2012 April 01 / 2012
Call for Submissions:
VIDEODROME 2012 at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Deadline: April 1st 2012

WEBSITE: http://www.dropframevideo.com/news.html

Now accepting submissions of A/V works under 5 mins.

VIDEODROME is Toronto's foremost event for Visual Music and A/V culture since 2004. Visual Music is video and audio composition made from video edits, simultaneously video AND music where picture matches sound, cut for cut, beat for beat, rhythmic media work where sound and image are equally dominant. See examples here: http://www.dropframevideo.com/videos.html

Based on the Cronenberg concept, VIDEODROME is an exercise in televisionary excess and sensory overload, video screening as party and vice-versa, in the words of dropFRAMEvideo: "bridging the gaps between the sofa, the club, and the gallery."

Works must be complete and received by April 1st by post at 193 Augusta, Toronto, ON, M5T 2L4
Or posted to a file-sharing service such as SENDSPACE.

Proposals for live performances or installations will also be considered.
VIDEODROME is administrated by Jubal Brown, dropFRAMEvideo, and Apocalypse Tomorrow.

VIDEODROME 2012
Spring 2012, at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto
More info on last years event here:
http://www.mocca.ca/exhibition/videodrome-audiovisual-overdose/

SPECTRAL - CTM Festival 2012

2011-12-20T12:35:00.000Z

CTM.12 – SPECTRAL

"// 30 January – 5 February 2012
// Various venues, Berlin

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials.

The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January to 5 February 2012. As always, CTM runs parallel to and in cooperation with Berlin’s festival for art and digital culture, transmediale, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012.

In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskirche, Gretchen, Kater Holzig and Horst Krzbrg, a discourse series developed in collaboration with the philosopher, psycho-historian and author Andreas L. Hofbauer will address the festival’s theme by pursuing questions concerning art, theory, and music.

Ghosts Off the Shelf is an exhibit created by the curator, art critic, and architect Thibaut de Ruyter at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, and explores the artistic use of the exponentially growing capacities of technical archives and their “inherent ghosts”. The exhibit opens on 27 January as part of Vorspiel, a comprehensive partner program within which a number of independent Berlin art, music, and media spaces will present their activities.

transmediale and CTM will once again present exciting collaborative projects at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

The full music, discourse and exhibition program will be revealed soon, meanwhile have look on the program preview."

Source: http://www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-festival/ctm12.html

Jean Piché - OCÉANES

2011-12-02T13:17:00.001Z

Jean Piché
OCÉANES, 2010/2011

Exploring parallels between image and music with particle generated image and granular synthesis generated sound - incredibly beautifully composed.

'A videomusic work by Jean Piché, 'exploring the aesthetic potential of particle based computer generated imagery. Analogous to granular sound processing, particle synthesis allows for the creation and control of complex materials using an large number of very small components. Sound and image coordination does not explicitely use synchresis as a discursive device but aims for an elevated relation based on metaphor and emotional detachment, as if contemplating a field of images from a distant perspective.'
source: http://vimeo.com/25933560

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OCÉANES from Jean Piché on Vimeo.