Visual Music

MuVi7 - Call for Visual Music Works

2024-12-01T23:55:00.003+00:00

MuVi7 (Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music) has a call out for visual music works to be exhibited in various forms for the International exhibition of video on synaesthesia and visual music at the Facultad de Bellas Artes (Universidad de Granada), Convento La Trinidad (Palacio Abacial) and Teatro Martínez Montañés Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain (Spain)

Call for Visual Music Works - MuVi7

CALL FOR KINETIC WORKS

MuVi7 invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, as well as professors and university

students, to submit proposals of videos to be part of a public exhibition, featuring performances

and discussions.

Visual Music exhibition is part of the VIII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science & Art",

which will take place from the 23th to the 25th of October 2025 at Convento La Trinidad,

Palacio Abacial and Teatro Martínez Montañés, Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain.

Deadline for submissions

The deadline for submissions is 30May 2025

Topic - Visual Music

The topic of the exhibition is visual music and synaesthesia. By “visual music”, we refer to any representation, whether purely visual or audiovisual, inspired by music. The correspondences between the visual and musical elements may result from synesthetic perceptions (where the visuals are mental images evoked by music); or from studies exploring analogies between visual and musical languages (rhythms, tonality, texture, colours, etc.). A narrative thread is not required.

Who can participate?

The call is open to three categories of participants:

Participant A: professionals (artists, musicians, designers and performers)

Participant B: university professors.

Participant C: university students or recent graduated (within the last 24 months).

What can you submit?

Any form of moving image (video, animations, etc.) – only visual kinetic work, audiovisual,

or interactive – is eligible for submission.

University professors can submit collections of didactic works.

Students may submit one or more works created as part of a university course.

The submitted works must be unpublished and free of copyright restrictions.

How to make submissions

Submissions can be made through the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/9dbthWawbg

The submitted files should preferably be in MP4 format (codec H264) and must not exceed

500Mb.

Only one work (or collection of works) can be entered on each form.

Each author can submit a maximum of two Works/Forms.

What are the fees?

It is possible to submit one or more works to MuVi7 without paying any fees

However, the participation in the VIII International Congress Synaesthesia: Science & Art requires

payment of the congress registration fee.

Prize and publication

The best three work will receive the MuVi7 award, including a certificate from the Artecittà

Foundation, and respectively 30, 20 and 10, copies of the MuVi7 book.

The Fundación Internacional Artecittà will promote the best works in the artistic circuits.

The 15 best works will be selected for the exhibition (5 from each participant category).

The best 24 works (along with their descriptions), will be published on a book and ebook,

including links to the videos. The works must be unpublished and free of copyright restrictions.

The authors will receive a free digital copy of the book.

The selection of the works will be edited by the Scientific committee of the exposition.

All participants will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision via e-mail by 30th July 2025.

For any inquiries, please contact:

info@artecitta.es and info@sinestesie.it

Also visit the following websites: https://sites.google.com/view/syn25/muvi7

(ebook of the latest edition MuVi6 in: urly.it/312xpp, examples from previous editions in:

http://muvi-visualmusic.tumblr.com/)

http://www.artecitta.es/VIIICongreso25/

MORE INFORMATION

Visit: https://sites.google.com/view/syn25/muvi7

Center for Visual Music - Call For Visual Music Works

2024-11-15T13:55:00.005+00:00

The Center for Visual Music (CVM) has a call for visual music works. CVM is a nonprofit film archive, has been dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media and also supports contemporary visual music work. This call for works is looking to be shown on the CVM's social media, website and as part of their travelling program.

Call for Visual Music Works, 2024 - Center for Visual Music LINK

The deadline for submitting work is the 30th November 2024. So do get your submissions in.

Press Release from CVM

"As part of our anniversary celebrations, CVM is looking for submissions of a new short visual music work. A short film, a new work not released or screened elsewhere (including film festivals). The new film should be original; we are not looking for work that reuses or incorporates footage, shots or images from existing Visual Music films, or is a direct imitation. The chosen film will be shown for 2 months on CVM's website and social media, and at a later date, shown in some theatres as part of CVM's traveling programs (digital exhibition).

This call is made to give attention to the Visual Music work celebrated by Center for Visual Music in relation to image and movement, abstraction and music, not only from historical creators like Oskar Fischinger, but also continuing with contemporary artists. The new film should be original. Length should be 8 minutes or under. We are seeking short abstract visual music work (please do not submit documentaries or feature films, for instance). Please note, we are unable to showcase the film on social media, Vimeo or YouTube if the music is not cleared. A jury will choose works to be included in this celebration. We are looking forward to seeing your new Visual Music work!"

VISIT the Call for Visual Music Works Page for details on how to submit your film

International Call for Works - VISUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

2024-09-19T13:03:00.000+01:00

I am very happy to announce the call for works for visual music films for a visual music festival devoted to contemporary practice to be held at the University of Kentucky, US. Why I am very proud is one of my former students is involved in organising this, well done Kristine

SCFA Visual Music Festival 2025 @ The University of Kentucky

Call for visual music films, Deadline is 15th December 2024

General Rules:

• The films must be made entirely with abstract imagery, avoiding representation. That is:

no cars, no people, no landscapes, no texts, etc.

• You can use any technique you’d like: drawing, video composition, cgi, scratch, op-art,

stop-motion, camera-less…

• The soundtrack cannot feature any words, in any language. If you’re using a song, this

must be instrumental or feature non-narrative voices, (no lyrics).

• Maximum running time is 8 minutes.

• Open and/or closing credits are welcome.

• Films must have been produced after 2017.

• We kindly request authors to enter their film/s in Full HD/1080p, as we’ll screen all the

selected works in that resolution.

• You must provide a direct download link (or via FTP) to your work, as we need offline

access to it. Submitted works without a download link might be disregarded.

• Our preferred formats are .mov/.mp4. Please use none or high-quality compression

whenever possible.

• Audio can be presented in mono or stereo but surround sound or spatial audio can’t be

supported.

• This festival is not a competition. There are no monetary prizes and no judging panel.

Eligibility:

• All people in the world are eligible to participate in this festival. There is no entry fee.

• Each author can submit as many works as they please, but only up to three works per

author may be selected.

SUBMISSION

Email all submissions, via direct download link or FTP to:

visualmusic@l.uky.edu

Deadline is 12/15/24.

By participating in this call, the author conveys the non-exclusive rights to screen their material

at the UK Visual Music Festival. By taking part in our call, participants confirm being the owners

of any license, copyrights, and image/sound rights. Submitting your work does not guarantee

exhibition at the Festival. All applicants will be notified of their final decision via email. By

submitting to and being selected for the festival, you are giving UK permission to potentially

use a portion of your piece, stills or short clips, for festival promotion. Additionally, you are

giving permission for your work to be potentially included on the Singletary Center for the Arts

Vimeo page (non-monetized, educational, non-downloadable).

Larry Cuba - Extract from Film First Fig (1974)

2024-03-03T18:30:00.002+00:00

Larry Cuba gave a master class at Punto Y Raya Festival in 2023, October 11. It is now available to watch on the Punto Y Raya YouTube Channel. In this master class he gives us an incredible archaeological dig (as he introduces his class) into the early days of computer graphics and how he made his computer animated graphic films. Incredibly, he shows a short excerpt of one of his first computer graphic films made at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California in 1974.

Excerpt of First Fig by Larry Cuba 1974

A Taste of Synaesthesia - Art Exhibition - London

2023-10-26T15:14:00.005+01:00

Nine Lyrae Productions in collaboration with Brunel University London in celebration of the 2023 Artist in Residence. UK Synaesthesia Association and @journeythroughthesenses present an International Synaesthesia Art Exhibition titled - A Taste of Synaesthesia. Immerse yourself in a world of digital art, video projections, discussions, and live performances—all set against a synesthetic backdrop.

https://www.ninelyraeproductions.com/

"In this showcase, over 20 international artists will unveil their synesthetic experiences through a variety of art forms. Join us to rediscover the world through a different lens and savour just a Taste of Synaesthesia."

WHEN: Friday 27th October, 2023

WHERE: Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House St, London SE1 9PH,

hello@ninelyraeproductions.com

@oxotowerwharf

Free admission, RSVP on website: https://www.ninelyraeproductions.com/

https://www.ninelyraeproductions.com/

The exhibition consists of a:

Digital Art Showcase Artists Exhibiting: Gaby Cardoso, Cristian Matias Cuchian, Maria Jose De Cordoba Serrano, Leonore Egbert, Umut Eldem, Carrie C Firman, Kate Flurrie, Christy Gurley, Zsolt Gyenes, Carolyn CC Hart, Michael Haverkamp, Timothy B Layden, Ann Le Pore, Maura Mc Donnell, Sam Moore, Valeria Perboni, Svetlana Rudenko, Carol Steen, Tamas Wata Varga, James Wannerton, Ninghui Xiong

Sound Art Installations

Artists exhibiting: Ruaidhri Mannion, Jake Landau, Christopher Schlechte-Bond

Artist in Residence Installation "Bridge"

By Valeria Perboni
Journey Through the Senses

Artists exhibiting: Lucas Masoch, Martynenkova and Mienciuk,Tim Thompson, Raewyn Turner and Brian Harris, Marina WitteMann

Immersive Installation
By Valeria Perboni and Piotr Grzesiak

TIMED EVENTS:

Education Panel

Synaesthesia Documentary SYNscape

Dance Performance Cycloma Ad Astra

“Scents of Home” Synaesthesia Performance

SOUND/IMAGE 2023 - Call for Works

2023-07-27T14:11:00.002+01:00

“Creativity Shared” is the theme of the next SOUND/IMAGE festival in the University of Greenwich, London, UK

A festival curated by the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre.

Dates: 9-12 November 2023
Submission Deadline: 25 August 2023

University of Greenwich, London, UK

SOUND/IMAGE 2023 - Call for works - web page

Press Release:

"This festival brings together artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.

To celebrate the publication of a new book on sonic creativity “Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music” and the launch of our new creative practice research facilities the “Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies” this 2023 edition of the festival invites submissions that respond to the theme “Creativity Shared”.

We seek projects in Sound and Audiovisual Practice that articulate the value of the creative process and its potential to engage with the world in new ways:

How do we use our art to communicate?

In what ways do we use our media to tell stories and make audiences feel?

What are our ethical responsibilities to our audiences?

How do we best share knowledge of our practices (when it is so often bound up in tacit and embodied practices?)

Engaging in a rich complementary programme of talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts and workshops – we hope to stimulate discussion, debate and to engage diverse perspectives and new insights.

To expand on this theme we are delighted to welcome special guest artists, including for this 2023 edition, New Zealand electroacoustic composer John Young. Look out for future announcements of other special guests in the coming weeks.

We seek submissions that explore the diverse areas of sound / image practice and actively encourage applications from candidates of all ethnicities, backgrounds and genders, who are traditionally underrepresented. In addition, because we’re keen to welcome innovators and foster the next generation of new practitioners, we will give special consideration to applications from students, apprentices and emerging artists."

Website with information and submission details:

LINK TO WEBSITE

Call for Talk / Papers

Submissions are invited discussing creativity and creative practice on the following topics including, but not limited to:

Audio-visual Composition;

Visual Music;

Acousmatic Composition;

Audio-visual Performance;

Sound and Image Relationships;

the Sonic Image;

Practice-Research Methods;

Perception of Sound;

Embodiment & tactility;

Impressions of space and place.

Please submit 500 word abstract:

Call for Audio-Visual Works (fixed media)

Composers and filmmakers to submit their audio-visual compositions for screening. Works should be no longer than 15 minutes in duration.

Single Screen fixed media works will be presented at formal screenings in our ‘Cinema’ space with 16:9 HD projection and up to 7.1 surround sound.

Immersive, 180º or 360º works will be presented in our new Digital Theatre Space in Bathway with access to the full Loudspeaker Orchestra system.

Online links to the work should be submitted via a non-expiring link (Soundcloud/Dropbox etc.)

Call for Acousmatic Works (fixed media)

Composers to submit acousmatic compositions for performance.

Works should be no longer than 15 minutes in duration.

Works will be presented via our loudspeaker orchestra.

Online links to the work should be submitted via a non-expiring link (Soundcloud/Dropbox etc.)

Call for Live / Interactive Works

We invite composers, performers and creators to submit live AV performances, live sound performances, XR performances, and other formats of interactive presentations.

Works should be no longer than 15 minutes in duration.

Performances will be presented in our Virtual Production Film Studio space with a 6×3 meter ultra-high definition LED wall.

Online links to the work should be submitted via a non-expiring link (Soundcloud/Dropbox etc.)

Call for Installations

Sound artists, fine artists, audiovisual artists, immersive VR, AR, XR content artists to submit proposals for installations and gallery exhibition.

Installations will be presented in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in the Stockwell Street Building. The exhibition will run from Saturday 11 November until Saturday 16 December: http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk/category/stephen-lawrence-gallery/

(Please note it is the responsibility of the artists to provide any required specialist technical equipment needed for their work).

Deadline

Deadline for submissions is Friday 25 August at 23:59 UTC+1.

LINK TO WEBSITE

Digital Alchemy - Visual Music Work

2023-07-21T16:52:00.002+01:00

Digital Alchemy is titled after the eighteenth century alchemy chemistry practices to create precious metals. In this digital abstract world, you are brought on a journey into the transformation of textures, colour and timbre in visuals and music. There are two anchor points in this motion surface, as two vertical lines offset and near the edges, that holds this surface of multiple gossamer threads of visual alchemic material, consisting of softness and sharpness are side by side. Perfect geometries merge with chaotic micro motions. The music is a composition by Cobi van Tonder, titled 'Gala', which consists of micro tones, vibrations of varying intensities, macro gestures. Both visual and music works consist of colours that shift and change with intensity and dynamic changes while other parts are still.

Digital Alchemy

Visuals: Maura McDonnell Music: Cobi van Tonder Year: 2018 Medium: Digital Video Genre: Visual Music; Abstract Digital Film; Experimental Film; Music and Art; Art Installation

I have made this video public on vimeo for the summer period. I created this visual in 2018 in collaboration with Cobi van Tonder and discussions with her on a selection of her micro-tonal music compositions. I picked her piece 'Gala' to work with for a visual music treatment. I loved creating the visuals for Cobi's meditative and evocative music. Cobi is an amazing music composer and all round talented person. Her music is beautiful. After listening to her music, I was drawn to certain colours and textures and motions, resulting in pink and an alchemy of gold. (c) visuals copyright Maura McDonnell (c) music copyright Cobi van Tonder Cobi van Tonder #mauramcdonnellart #visualmusic #abstractfilm #irishartist #experimentalfilm

Watch “Digital Alchemy” on #Vimeo https://vimeo.com/286607499

Digital Alchemy from Maura McDonnell on Vimeo.

FOR INSTALLATION AND SCREENINGS contact visual music blog author Maura McDonnell, see profile for contact details.

Performing Media Festival - 2023 - South Bend, Indiana

2023-02-16T10:21:00.001+00:00

The Performing Media Festival [PMF~2023] is an annual showcase of audio-visual performance works in which artists working with emerging technologies unapologetically cross disciplinary boundaries to create new works of integrated media. Inspired by Debora Bernagozzi’s curated show titled Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists, "Performing Media", as Debora called it, eloquently encapsulates the performance of multimedia works that underpin all the events of the current festival, named after that exhibition. Over the years, co-founders Ryan Olivier and Eric Souther came to define performing media as a genre that uses multimedia elements in a performative manner, which so far has come to include live audio-visual performances, generative media processes, and edits/recordings of real-time captures. This evolving definition of performing media is re-evaluated each year along with the developing medium.

Now in its seventh year, the Performing Media Festival [PMF~ 2023] will feature special guest artist Sabina Covarrubias (PhD), headliners After Ours (Eli Kahn & Arthur Schroeder), electronic music ensemble the Audio Visual Collective, and a full roster of instrumentalists from Ensemble Concept/21 (EC/21). The festival will take place across the city at the South Bend Museum of Art (January 14th - March 19th), on the campus of Indiana University South Bend (Mar 6th - 10th), at the arts incubator Langlab South Bend (March 10th), and on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (March 27th). In addition to our invited guests, over 60 artists were selected from our international call for works to showcase their works throughout the festival. All events are free and open to the public.

www.performingmediafestival.com
South Bend, Indiana

Performing Media Festival, South Bend, Indiana - 2023

SBMA Installation: [January 14th - March 19th] Wednesdays - Sundays 12:00 - 5:00 PM: South Bend Museum of Art

The curatorial staff at the South Bend Museum of Art have installed a collection of works in both the Project Room and Weikamp Galleries, many of which reflect on nature or perform it through media. Weikamp Dot Room Works: Eric Lemmon Astraeus, Allison Tanenhaus ColoBara, Thales Ferreira's exercise to open the sea #1, Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro's The Grand Transparents, DaVideo_Tape [Dave Mosier]'s EncounterZ IV, Sophia Brueckner's Under One Sky, Steve Bretschneider's Hydrodynamica, Julie Zhu's nadir aux pommes, David Fodel's Nimitta, John Gibson's edgewater, Leandro Limonghi's Al píe del árbol. Project Room Works: Cheryl Pagurek's Dualities and Pluralities, João Pedro Oliveria's Things I Have Seen in My Dreams, Allison Tanenhaus's Breathing and Spectralia, Lyoubov's Genesis perception, Minato Sakamoto's Cooking Fields, Thales Ferreira Sparse Poems, Yuanyuan (Kay) He's StellarScape – Children of the Stars, and Daniel Blinkhorn's frostbYte - chalk outline.

IQ-Wall Installation: [March 6th - 9th] Monday - Thursday 11:00 - 2:30 PM: University Grill, Administration Building, IU South Bend

[PMF~] takes over the 4x4x4k IQ-Wall at IU South Bend for the week to screen a reel of media works, including Alberto Novello's Sphere Degradation, Jiayue Cecilia Wu's Mandala, Willyn Whiting's Framework II, Christopher Poovey's Distant Guides, Sylvain Souklaye's Tinkered Thinking, Bill Alves's Static Cling, Ted Moore's quartet, Matthew Goodheart & Shawn Lawson's Berlin Head Metal IV, Maxwell Miller's Danaus Plexippus, Mark Cetilia's Sytimox, Paolo Pastorino's Burning inside, Anıl Çamcı's Vylderness Worldmaking through Modular Synthesis and VR, David Fodel's Drift, and Katie Jenkins Monologue for Solo Vocalizing Cellist.

IQ-Wall Artist Meet & Greet: [March 9th] Thursday 5:00 - 6:00 PM: University Grill, Administration Building, IU South Bend

Festival welcome address and introductory remarks featuring interactive media works by Eric Lemmon (Politics I) and Lark Spartin (DIstant Distraction, Foul Breach, Separate Sensation) at the 4x4x4k IQ-Wall. This will be a great opportunity to meet festival artists and those who worked to put the festival together.

EC/21 Performance: [March 9th] Thursday 7:00 - 9:00 PM: Louise E. Addicott & Yatish J. Joshi Performance Hall, IU South Bend

A concert of media works featuring Ensemble Concept 21 (EC/21) performing Ryan Olivier's NST: Non-Sustainable Token, Aaron Israel Levin's This is the one with the videogame violence, Rodrigo Pascale's Malleable, Antonio Sanz Escallón's Branches, Cecilia Suhr performing her own work Paradigm Shift: Tapping into the Quantum Field, and fixed media works by David Bird (what glows is fuchsia), Patrick Reed and Jae-Eun Sun (A Long Day), SiHyun Uhm (Splash of Colors), and Bret Battey (Estuaries 4), as well as documentation from Natasha Bogojevich's live score to Lisa Barcy's film The Ephemeral Orphanage.

Special Guest: Sabina Covarrubias [March 10th] Friday 12:00 - 12:50 PM
Louise E. Addicott & Yatish J. Joshi Performance Hall, IU South Bend

Don't miss this keynote presentation by [PMF~ 2023]'s special guest artist Sabina Covarrubias (Ph.D.). She will present a live performance work with visuals in multichannel surround sound and be available to discuss her work after the performance.

Langlab ft. After Ours: [March 10th] Thursday 7:00 - 11:15 PM: Langlab South Bend

This evening of performances and celebration features a combination of local artists and international guests with screenings, installations, and live concert sets. Grab a drink and some food and take in the art at this community gathering of performance media! Artists include IUSB's Audio Visual Collective performing Wesley S. Uchiyama-Penix's The Border of Wind, screenings of Mark Sniadecki's Nematodes, Addison Bird's Sticking Your Head in the Rabbit Hole, Zhang Yinan's Rain-ball, Austin Yip's This is All About That Monster, Andre Perim's ID, Maura McDonnell's Digital Alchemy, Jérémie Martineau's Distractions, Horizons, and Kian Ravaei's Outcry. There will be a performance by Minneapolis-based duo John C.S. Keston and Mike Hodnick performing their work SYNTAX, Eric Souther returns with his partner Jason Mullen to perform a new work of theirs. There will be solo performances by livvy94 (with SNES), Edmar Soria [Homeomorphism Phi(0)], and tiainen.xyz (Impromptu). Between sets, be sure to check out Nick LeJeune's projection installation, Indiscrete Entities. The evening will close with a performance by headliner After Ours (Eli Kahn & Arthur Schroder) with visuals crafted by Eli Kahn and performed by Ryan Olivier.

POSTLUDE: A Photosonic Mass: [March 27th]: Monday 8:00 - 9:00 PM: LaBar Performance Hall, O'Neill Hall, University of Notre Dame

POSTLUDE, the brainchild of Kari Francis, explores themes of ritual, space, and musical assemblage by connecting different settings of the Catholic mass by Satie, Rautavaara, Pärt, Snider, Byrd, and Bray into a single ceremony. Featuring lighting design by Performing Media Festival alum Alex Christie, POSTLUDE offers a secular reimagining of the mass liturgy with electronic interludes by IU South Bend's Audio Visual Collective created specifically for the LaBar Performance Hall.

Contact festival host Ryan Olivier for inquiries (performingmediafest@gmail.com)

Web: www.performingmediafestival.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/performingmediafest

Instagram: www.instagram.com/performingmediafest

YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhmB-Cqic59_rS0Nmfulmw

Poster for Performing Media Festival, 2023

WORK: Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow) by Matt Winston

2022-10-07T12:59:00.006+01:00

A beautiful visual music piece titled Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow), Electronics, Flute and Piano in Eb Major where visuals and music are composed by Matt Winston can be viewed online.

Frame from the film, 'Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow)'

Matt graduated from the MMT programme in 2021 and I was his supervisor for his project in which one of the outputs was this beautiful film.

The film was premiered at the MMT 2021 Exhibition which was online because of the Pandemic.

The Visual Music Piece is inspired by Chromesthetic Art and the Synaesthesia phenomenon.

Filmed on Kodak Tri-X Black & White Super 8 film and digitally processed using Adobe After Effects.

Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjzQf6OmWU

Matt Winston - Amach Amárach (Out Tomorrow), 2021

MuVi 6 - Video and Moving Image on Synaesthesia and Visual Music

2022-10-07T10:18:00.002+01:00

BOOK, SCREENING, WEBSITE:
MuVi6. Video and Moving Image on Synaesthesia and Visual Music (2022). - An exciting innovative multiple production presentation of the best in multidisciplinary artwork research and practice in visual music and videos exploring synaesthesia.

Cover of Book:MuVi 6

MuVi 6 is an annual showcase of innovative and exciting moving image video art works that explore either a visual music expression or synaesthesia or both. This year, the premiere screening will take place at the end of October, 2022 and is taking place as part of the VII International Congress “Synaesthesia: Science & Art” Palacio Abacial and Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain) Facultad de Bellas Artes Alonso Cano, Universidad de Granada (Spain)

This is multiple output/ production endeavour as MuVi 6 publishes a book with essays on research topics pertaining to the academic field and the arts practice. It also hosts a website and videos to be streamed online.

More Information:

https://lnkd.in/ezgNAkS9

#visualmusic #screening #MuVi6 #video #artwork #digitalart #synaesthesia

BOOK LAUNCH - Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice

2022-09-24T13:37:00.002+01:00

TWO EVENTS to make the occasion of the launch of the book publication: Live Visuals

Live Visuals Book Launch, November 5th, 2022, BFI, London -
Live Visuals Book Launch After Party, - Live Audio-Visual Performances, November 6th, 2922
Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street Corner), SE1 7LG

LIVE VISUALS BOOK LAUNCH

The Live Visuals book launch will be held in the BFI, Southbank London on the 5th November, 2022 from 13:00 to 19:00 pm.

The book launch celebrates the launch of Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, edited by Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman and Atau Tanaka, which was recently published by Routledge - https://routledge.pub/Live-Visuals

Live Visuals - BOOK LAUCH

Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art and a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture – from VJing to immersive environments, architecture to design – Live Visuals also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context. The event will feature presentations by chapter authors, a panel with Live Visuals specialists such as Chris Allen from the Light Surgeons, Scratch video artist George Barber, and Stefan Arisona from Corebounce and Scheinwerfer VJ collective. A historical reel featuring some classics in audio-visual culture will also be screened. If you would like to attend, then you can sign up at the eventbrite page, link below

Get Tickets to Attend the Book Launch

More information:
@bfi southbank
https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-southbank

Book Purchase at: https://routledge.pub/live-visuals

Might see you there!

LIVE VISUALS Audio-Visual Performances - November 6th, 2022

Sunday 6 Nov, 2022,
Doors 19:00 - Performances 19.30-23.00

Tickets £6 Advance/ £8 OTD

Live audio-visual performances by:

Light Surgeons
Atau Tanaka & Adriana Sá
Jo Hyde

Steve Gibson & Stefana Arisona

More information:
@iklectik
https://iklectikartlab.com

Steve Gibson - https://www.telebody.ws/
Jo Hyde - https://josephhyde.co.uk/
Light Surgeons - http://www.lightsurgeons.com/

Atau Tanaka - http://www.ataut.net/

Adriana Sá - http://adrianasa.org/

Stefana Arisona - https://robotized.arisona.ch/

Svetlana Rudenko - Pianist - Music and Art Concert - Dublin

2022-09-21T20:35:00.002+01:00

Concert: Jack B. Yeats AR and other Art Music
Piano: Dr Svetlana Rudenko
Talk: Prof Mads Haahr
19th September, 2022, 7.30 pm
John Field Room
National Concert Hall, Dublin

Svetlana Rudenko and Collaborators on Music and Art Concert, with Talk/Narrative by Prof. Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin presented a concert of Music and Art Music Works

Svetlana Rudenko performs an exciting programme of music accompanied by various art presentations, National Concert Hall, Dublin, September 19th, 2022

On Monday 19th September 2022, the innovative and talented concert pianist Dr Svetlana Rudenko performed an exciting programme of music which included a varied and interesting visual art element. Svetlana collaborated with several artists and computer scientists to provide the art part of the programme.

An original Psychogeography project in which Svetlana collaborated with the Haunted Planet Games Design Company to create an Augmented Reality app exploring the paintings of Jack B. Yeats, as well as contemporary Synaesthete artists along with music compositions composed by Svetlana was presented in a live performance format with narration by Professor Mads Haahr (Trinity College Dublin). This narration was accompanied by Svetlana performing her original compositions on piano and a slide projection of Jack B Yeats paintings.

Jack B. Yeats AR and other art music

Svetlana also presented a programme of piano music from Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. F. Chopin's, Ballade N1 Op. 23, was accompanied by a projection of a painting done in response to the music by Synaesthete artist Ninghui Xiong.

Original Painting by Ninghui Xiong, painted and presented to include his
synaesthetic responses to Svetlana's performance of Chopin's music

Scriabin's Sonata N5 Op. 53 was accompanied by a rich animation that was composed by visual music artist Dr Maura McDonnell (this blog's author), in collaboration with Svetlana. Two paintings that consisted of both sensory and synaesthetic responses by Timothy B. Layden and Svetlana were used as source material for the animation as well as a range of images that Svetlana imagines when she is playing the music and textures and dynamic colours by Maura. What was really interesting about this was the range of images, and sensory experiences of three people: namely Svetlana, Tim and Maura were weaved together in the final animation.

Timothy B. Layden's painting that was painted in a live performance in a previous performance by Svetlana on Scriabin's Sonata N5 is about to come to dynamic life in the animation by Maura McDonnell for this concert.

Video's of previous concerts featuring Svetlana's performances and the visuals by Maura can be found on Svetlana's website concert page
https://www.svetlana-rudenko.com/concerts

Finally, a stunning performance of 7 Rachmaninoff Preludes were performed, accompanied by some text information informing the audience of the stories and imaginings that Svetlana experiences when playing these pieces, inviting the audience to consider these ideas in their listening.

More concerts are planned for the future. Watch this space.

Further Links
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/events/event/jack-b-yeats-ar-and-other-art-music.php
https://www.svetlana-rudenko.com/
https://hauntedplanet.com/
https://www.tblayden.com/
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=mmcdonn
https://www.instagram.com/nhxiong7/

CALL FOR WORKS, PAPERS, CONCERTS - Sound/Image22

2022-08-02T07:59:00.003+01:00

Press Release

CALL FOR WORKS – SOUND/IMAGE22

18-20 November 2022, University of Greenwich 

This festival brings together artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. 
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all ethnicities, backgrounds and genders, who are traditionally underrepresented.  

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Submit your proposals for – TALKS, CONCERTS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES, INSTALLATIONS – exploring diverse areas of sound / image practice, including (but not limited to): Audio-Visual Composition; Visual Music; Acousmatic Music; Expanded Cinema; Experimental Film; AV Performances; Sound and Image Relationships; Sonic Image; Perception of Sound; Embodiment & tactility; Impressions of space and place. 

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Deadline for submissions: 12 August 2022 at 23:59 UTC+1 

For further information and details visit: Website

Journal on Synaesthesia and Art available to purchase now

2022-08-02T07:25:00.004+01:00

The Journal: 'Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects of Cognitive Activity Across Science and Artack' is available in print and is available to purchase now.

Cover photo of Svetlana Rudenko, visuals by Maura McDonnell. IASAS, 2019

Available now

It is very exciting to see the cover photo for the just published journal - Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects of Cognitive Activity Across Science and Art is of a photograph from the multimedia concert in which pianist Svetlana Rudenko and I (visuals) collaborated on in Moscow in 2019.

Anton Dorso has edited the journal bringing together and documenting all the presentations, papers, art exhibits, concerts, and all aspects of the conference. See CC Harts post below for links to the journal and for details and how to purchase.

The international conference was organised by the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists and Scientists and was held in Moscow in 2019 and huge thanks especially to CC Hart for all she did to coordinate a very large international and local gathering.

I attended this conference and it was an incredible gathering of artists and scientists and academics. The multimedia concert that Svetlana Rudenko and I presented (Svetlana Piano and Maura Visuals) was held at the Conservatory, Small Hall, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, Moscow. Svetlana and I collaborated on two concerts and a paper presentation and we had a very moving visit to Alexander Scriabin 's museum.

Visit the following webpage for details on how to order: https://iasasevents.com/2022/08/01/synaesthesia-cross-sensory-aspects-of-cognitive-activity-across-science-and-art/?fbclid=IwAR3bDBht3qLm1DBOJE5nkKlOmzXjkgGFdAUAkyZhaYttz9u0xBBJJvUKJk8

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

2022-05-29T20:06:00.001+01:00

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 'gallery mode'—which it enters when there's no input for 2 minutes (or after you press 'g'). You just watch and listen, then. If, on the other hand, you interact via touch, mouse or keyboard, it enters 'interactive mode' and responds to you.

As Jim further explains: "Click the background until it's all funky—or click and hold for zipFunk, which fast-forwards you into the unknown, the interzone, through revolutions of the meanometer color pie at top left. Set the speed of meaning slider, the audio pitch range, anywhere from 10 octaves down to 2 octaves up. You glimpse different worlds of meaning in the different levels of pitch—though the 5-second audio source sound is vocal—of the word 'meaning' intoned thrice, played backwards once, forwards twice.

...This is the enigma of meaning—not a shortage of it."

Best with headphones.

Video demonstration and talk by Andrews on Enigma n2022

Further Information

Interactive Art and Music App: Enigma n2022
https://enigman.vispo.com/

Watch on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8SWu6tAoc

Jim Andrews Website
https://vispo.com/cv/ja.htm

Essay on Enigma n2022 by Jim Andrews
https://vispo.com/writings/essays/Enigman2022.pdf

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

2022-05-19T15:42:00.007+01:00

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

Портал психологических изданий PsyJournals.ru — https://psyjournals.ru/synaesthesia2021/issue/index.shtml [Synesthesia: intersensory aspects of cognitive activity in science and art]

VIEW PDF online:
https://psyjournals.ru/synaesthesia2021/issue/index.shtml

Table of contents

I am proud to mention that the cover photo consists of a visual music performance of Scriabin's Sonata N5 by concert pianist Svetlana Rudenko with visuals crafted by Maura McDonnell for the performance.

CALL FOR WORKS - MuVi6 - VISUAL MUSIC

2022-04-07T09:55:00.005+01:00

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, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain)

Deadline for Submissions

Latest date for submissions is 30 May 2022.

Dates of Exhibition

26th to the 29th of October 2022.

Where

Alcalá la Real, Jaén, 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 be the results of synesthetic perceptions (the visuals are the mental images suggested by the music); or the correspondences can be the result of studies on the analogies between the visual and musical languages (rhythms, tonality, texture, colours, etc.). The support of a narrative thread is not required.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information and details on how to submit your work visit the website:

https://sites.google.com/view/syn2022/muvi6

#visualmusic, #callforworks, #MuVi6

FORTHCOMING BOOK: Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice

2022-03-24T09:27:00.000+00:00

BOOK: Live Visuals History, Theory, Practice

Edited By Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka

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-arching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art, and also a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture – from VJing, immersive environments, architecture to design – Live Visuals also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context.

This book will appeal a wide range of scholars, students, artists, designers, and enthusiasts. It will particularly interest VJs, DJs, electronic musicians, filmmakers, interaction designers, and technologists.

FOR INFORMATION ON CHAPTERS AND AUTHORS visit Routledge Website

https://www.routledge.com/Live-Visua-ls-History-Theory-Practice/Gibson-Arisona-Leishman-Tanaka/p/book/9781032252681

The Art of Sound and Light, St Petersburg

2021-10-21T19:35:00.002+01:00

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, Jörg Jewanski - Adjunct Professor at the University of Münster, Germany, Sergey Mikhailovich Zorin — practicing light artist, founder of the Optical Theater (Moscow), Mikhail Sergeevich Zalivadny — St. Petersburg State Conservatory. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (St. Petersburg), Maksim Ivanovich Karpets — Russian Institute for the History of Art, St. Petersburg.

The conference was an international event and consisted of papers and practical works and presentations.

Academic Research Papers and Posters

The papers presented were organised around the following topics:

Synaesthesia and crossmodal correpondences

Light, colour and sound in traditional culture

Synaesthesia in the visual arts

Sound and light in musical art

Sound and image in the art of cinema

Sound and light as elements of stage space

Optical theater and light theater

Sound and light in multimedia art

Historical and bibliographic reviews and book presentations

Audiovisual Compositions and Documentaries

The documentary “Prometheus. The Poem of Kazan Fire” Вступительное слово: режиссер Дидар Оразов Opening remarks: director Didar Orazov

OPTICAL THEATER Sergey Zorin — Daria Golovanova (Moscow, Russia)

MOSCOW “THEATER OF LIGHT”, Alexey Goltykhov (Moscow, Russia)

RUSSIAN INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE ARTS — ITMO UNIVERSITY, Sofia Petrash — Olga Kolganova — Anna Spiridonova
3D visualization of Grigory Gidoni’s Light monument (Leningrad, 1927 — Saint Petersburg, (2020).
Tatyana Merkulova — Olga Kolganova — Anna Spiridonova (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
3D visualization of V. Baranoff-Rossine’s optophone (2021),

MOSCOW “THEATER OF LIGHT” Alexey Goltykhov (Moscow, Russia) T

here was a presentation of audiovisual compositions from an international cohort of individual artists and composers, education schools and music studios.

Zsolt Gyenes, frame from "Relay" (2021)

Zsolt Gyenes had three visual music works screend: "Lumage". 2021, "Monoscope 2+1", 2021, "Relay". 2021.

Daniel Blinkhorn (Sydney, Australia) "Unequal forms 1-3", 2021

Spread Spectrum Ensemble (Rushaniya Nizamutdinova — Martin Mukhametzyanov (Kazan’, Russia) Рушания Низамутдинова — Мартин Мухамедзянов (Казань, Россия) and their work "Electroacoustic improvisation #2". 2020, was screened

A retrospective of multimedia electroacoustic music compositions from the Yekaterinburg Electroacoustic music studio at YEAMS was presented by Tatyana Viktorovna Komarova, professor at the M.P. Musorgsky Urals Conservatory.

Maura McDonnell, Assistant professor at Trinity College, Dublin Ireland presented a programme of visual music films arising from her own practice and from her visual music students.

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

2021-08-29T21:38:00.002+01:00

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
SCIENTIFIC PRACTICAL CONFERENCE
"THE ART OF SOUND AND LIGHT "

Instrumentation sector of the Russian Institute of Art History, Audiovisual and Technological Arts ′′ Prometheus ′′ named after B. M. Galeev and Sergei Zorin Optical Theater invite you to participate in the Second International Scientific Conference ′′ The Art of Sound and Light ". The conference will unite specialists from various fields of scientific knowledge - philosophers, film scientists, art scientists, musicians, instrumentalists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in the implementation of light synths in modern art practice - light artists, light-musicians, composers, sound directors. The conference program includes reports, messages, master classes, audiovisual compositions demonstrations, and presentations of editions on the art of sound and light, music and synesthesia, musical synesthetics.

Suggested Themes

The theme of the conference includes the following directions, but not limited to them:

• Interaction of sound and light phenomena in musical art;
• Symbolism of sound and light in fine art and music;
• Colored hearing and light synesthesia;
• Psychophysiological prerequisites for the formation of light images in music;
• Light and color in ethnomusicology;
• Light and color in musical terms and concepts;
• Polychrome notation;
• Modern light sound instruments;
• Musical light painting;
• Sound and light / color in movie art;
• Light architecture and light-language;
• Light theater;
• Optical Theater S. M. Zorina;
• Research of the ′′ Prometheus ′′ SCB research in the field of synesthesia and synthesis of arts: history, theory, practice.

The conference will be held on October 18-20, 2021 in full-time format in the Green and White Halls of the Russian Institute of Art History (St. Petersburg, Isaacievskaya Square 5) and on the zoom platform.

Applications for participation in the conference (including theses of reports up to 4000 words) are accepted until September 10, 2021 email addresses: kolganova.spb@gmail.com or instrum_conf@mail.ru

The collection of theses is planned to be published by the beginning of the conference. The inclusion of reports in the conference program will be announced no later than September 12

What to submit in your submission

Provide:

Author Information

FULL NAME; city; contact: e-mail, phone number; place of work; position; academic degree; title; topic of report (messages, presentations, speeches);
Proposed Paper or submission

Title of the presentation in English or in Russian;

Long abstract of the points of the presentation in English or in Russian (2000–4000 words);
Short abstract annotation of the presentation in English or in Russian (each one up to 150 words).

Information about the author is drawn up according to the following example: Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov — musicologist (film expert, artist), Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Culture at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen, member of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Science and Education (St. Petersburg).

Publication

As a result of the conference, a collection of articles will be released. Articles for publication are accepted on a competitive basis. The volume of texts - up to 40000 signs, the volume of annotations in Russian and English - is up to 150 words. The rules of registration and timing of submission of materials for publication will be posted in the second information letter.

The composition of the organizing committee

Olga Viktorovna Kolganova is a researcher of the RIII instrumentation sector, candidate of art, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists (St. Petersburg).
Anastasia Borisovna Maksimova is a candidate of historical sciences, Associate Professor of Kazan State Energy University, Head of Audio Visual and Technological Arts Support Fund named after B. M. Galeev (Kazan).
Jorg Evanski - PhD, musician, author and editor of synesthesia books and music and visual art, adjunct professor of Munster University (Munster, Germany).
Sergey Mikhailovich Zorin is a practicing light artist, founder of the Optical Theater, author and performer of musical light painting and optical performances (Moscow).
Mikhail Sergeevich Zalivadny is a candidate of art, researcher and teacher of St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (St. Petersburg).
Maxim Ivanovich Karpets - composer, candidate of art, senior researcher of the RIII, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists, correspondent member of the International Academy of Informatization (UN), member of the office of the educational and methodological center for the development of education in the field of culture and art of the government of St. Petersburg Petersburg.

WEBSITE:

https://artcenter.ru/en/second-international-scientific-and-practical-conference-the-art-of-sound-and-light/

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

2021-04-29T16:29:00.006+01:00

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.

Source: https://www.newmusicdublin.ie Several of the music groups such as the Crash Ensemble, Evlana, Kirkos Ensemble, and National Symphony Orchestra crafted music performances for online viewing and playback.

Crash Ensemble

The Crash Ensemble commisioned many new music works from up and coming and established composers. What is of interest to this visual music blog was how the use of the visual element was used to broadcast the performance of these works online to create a really interesting online experience of new music. Crash Ensemble's videographer Laura Sheeran produced several video's for Crash Ensemble's [R E A C T I O N S] music composer commissions which were presented across three concerts held during the festival - This Is The Space Part I - 24 April 2021; WingForm - 24 April 2021; This Is The Space Part II - 25 April 2021; Granulated Frequencies - 25 April 2021. As well as the Free State 13 commusions, Nine composers were also invited to create a new composition scored for two instruments from the ensemble and to explore their response to the pandemic. The videos with music were premiered on musictown's website, a week before the New Music Dublin presentations.

Crash Ensemble - This is the Space/ Part 1

The visual element or what could be called the video element, really made the online presentation of the new music so much more intimate and brought that visual element of performance into the online viewing screen. Laura Sheeran, Crash Ensemble's videographer created really awesome videos for each of the commissions. Each video had a distinctive style and treatment with hints of the music score, washes of colour and motion colour interspersed with close-ups of the action of the musicians hand and their music instrument. It made for a really engaging viewing online.

Crash Ensemble - Wingform

Not only were their visuals by Laura Sheeran, but also a really intriguing video set with lighting installations by video designer Jack Phelan for an incredible music composition by Wingform. Several films/videos to accompany other music compositions and music performacnes were also presented, such as Eoin Healy's film accompanying Deirdre Gribbins music composition 'Invitation to a Journey' inspired by Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray. A beautiful intermingling of images interspersed with the recording of the musicians performing was presented by Irish producer and DJ Ellen King (ELLLL), titled ‘Images and Sensations’. Robert Coleman's new music composition also had an image element to the production.

In the small space of an individual music concert viewing, these images and videos interspersed with recordings of live performances by musicians was really so well produced and added a really rich visual and performative extra layer to the whole online experience.

ONLINE FOR A LIMITED TIME

https://www.newmusicdublin.ie/watch-performances

View Online:

Crash Ensemble present REACTIONS – Crosstalk by Anna Murray with film by Laura Sheeran

Ion Concert Media - Visuals synced for Live Music Concerts

2021-04-26T16:03:00.004+01:00

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 audio products for your productions.

Website: http://ionconcertmedia.com

Example Production - Jocelyn Hagen's 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci'

The writings and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci come to life through music, text and animations to create an unforgettable multimedia concert experience.

Jocelyn Hagen's THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI premiered in 2019 in Minnesota, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. His handwriting, sketches, and words come to life through music using the latest in video syncing technology: Muséik, from Ion Concert Media.

Jocelyn Hagen's THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI

http://ionconcertmedia.com/portfolio/the-notebooks-of-leonardo-davinci/

View Online

https://youtu.be/Uov-0594oXE

Freska and AUJIK music video collaboration - Flows

2021-04-26T15:40:00.006+01:00

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.

Freska's sonic palette is not ashamed of its deep blend of traditional sounds and modern rhythms, and tries to immerse the listener in its idea of narrating a described state of nature.

Ambient landscapes, dreamy chords, classical guitar and unhurried beat ' Flows ' is imbued with the sound vision of a natural interaction and evolution.

The 2 versions of Flows are available on all digital platforms through Freska imprint ‘Freska Musik’.

About Artists:

-- AUJIK’s multi-media works have been showcased in galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide including the Prix Ars Electronica 2011, OneDotZero London BFI 2011/2013/2016, SIGGRAPH Asia, CMoDA Beijing, Biwako Biennale 2012,2014, 2018. Japan Media Arts Festival 2010/2015. Nordic Outbreak by the Streaming Museum, NYC 2014, 'Death is your Body' Frankfurter Kunstverein 2014, Co-workers, Museum of Modern Art, Paris 2016, Oberhausen film festival, Rotterdam film festival, Dokfest Kassel. Had solo exhibitions at galleries in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and at CAC Vilnius, Museum of Art, Turku, Finland. Made music videos for Cloud Nothings, Sun Araw, Liturgy, Guzz and others. Collaborated with Christ, Mira Calix and Daisuke Tanabe. Mainly work with Computer animation, but also AR, VR, photo, clothes, painting, music and installations.

Website: http://freska-musik.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_aujik_

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qnqaujik

Website: www.aujik.com

Freska is the solo musical project of Evgeny Freska. Founded in 2006, it is an independent music project which also involves experiments with visual art.

Musically, Freska spans multiple genres from electronic, avantgarde, classical interpretations and imbued with his story of a journey from north to south. Evgeny was acting for a long time as music producer, selector, executive at RBMA and later reformed into a music composer and sound studio owner in Barcelona. Having caused supersonic ripples throughout the electronic music community Freska is about to drop his long-awaited single series and collaborations with visual artists.

View Video Online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IcqoEjUnM

ARTIST FOCUS: Alberto Novello - JesterN

2021-01-27T08:22:00.000+00:00

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 analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds."

Source: http://www.jestern.com

Teaching

He is currently teacher of Multimedia and Music Informatics at Conservatory of Padua.

He is coordinator of the SaMPL, Performance Art Center in Padua.

More Information

Website: http://www.jestern.com

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/jestern

Alberto Novello is available for bookings

View: Feedback Plane#

Video Feedback added on a Rutt Etra style plane.

Made on an analog Tektronix 620 Monitor using sound to deflect its beam.

PAPER: Julie Watkins - Composing Visual Music - Published 2018

2020-11-25T21:06:00.001+00:00

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

Visual Music Installation - Singing Light by Julie Watkins

I was very fortunate to experience this beautiful visual music installation in London as well as the previous installation Singing Light 1. The use of space and the scale of the work was really impressive and being able to move around a visual music work was really lovely. A short document of the installation is embedded from Julie's Vimeo account below.

More information

https://vimeo.com/user5379534

https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/10.16995/bst.296/#

https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/fach/julie-watkins