Visual Music

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

2012-03-03T14:02:00.000+01:00

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..."

2012-02-27T16:04:00.000+01:00

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

2012-02-22T10:31:00.002+01:00

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

2012-02-19T17:18:00.000+01:00

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

2012-02-19T14:38:00.000+01:00

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

2012-02-16T17:15:00.001+01:00

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

2012-02-15T10:40:00.000+01:00

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

2012-02-12T12:09:00.000+01:00

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

2012-01-22T17:54:00.002+01:00

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

2012-01-17T12:14:00.000+01:00

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.

2012-01-16T18:54:00.001+01:00

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

2012-01-06T22:02:00.003+01:00

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

2011-12-21T18:51:00.001+01:00

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

2011-12-20T13:35:00.000+01:00

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

2011-12-02T14:17:00.001+01:00

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

view on vimeo

OCÉANES from Jean Piché on Vimeo.

TIME PAINTING by AKITOSENGOKU

2011-11-27T23:42:00.001+01:00

Check out these amazing audio visual performances with live musicians.
The music in this performance I think is really beautiful. Great work.

TIME PAINTING by AKITOSENGOKU
Collaborate with Hugues Vincent, Frantz Loriot & ryotaro

at "Velvet Moon vol.38" -music, dance & Performance night!-
October 19, 2011
UrBANGUILD, Kyoto, Japan

Hugues Vincent, Frantz Loriot, ryotaro & AKITO SENGOKU Live at "Velvet Moon vol.38" UrBANGUILD, Kyoto from AKITO SENGOKU on Vimeo.

Electoluminescence by Sharon Phelan

2011-11-16T16:52:00.001+01:00

Electroluminesence an audiovisual composition composed by Sharon Phelan in 2009 is a very hypnotic and beautiful audio visual piece with a very stylised colour scheme and motion palette. Sharon composed the music to the visuals, a kind of deep seeing and hearing. I saw this again yesterday evening in the ATRL lab, Trinity College, Dublin and it was quite stunning aurally and visually in such a great setting, with high quality projection and audio.

Electroluminescence from Sharon Phelan on Vimeo.

"Audiovisual composition consisting of video feedback.
The music and visuals were informed by each other in an exploration of emergent forms. Slight changes to certain parameters lead to complex results."

20 Hz - Semiconductor Video

2011-11-09T12:37:00.000+01:00

This piece is quite incredible in the patterns and sense of depth and dimension. It is really beautiful. Semiconductors film 200 Nanowebbers was really brilliant too, but this new work form 2011, is equally as good. Great work semiconductor

20 Hz - A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.

'05.00 minutes / HD / 2011
HD single channel and HD 3D single channel.
A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.'"20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception,"
Webpage about 20Hz: - http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/20Hz/20Hz.htm

View on Vimeo

20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Tony Brooks Towards New Multisensory Spaces and Environments

2011-11-05T10:10:00.002+01:00

Four Senses Concert, 2002

This important concert that took place in 2002 in the Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand. The four senses concert were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks (UK).

website: link

"The ‘Four Senses’ 1999, 2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences.
The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of breathing in, and of visualizing music.

Tony Brooks utilised sensors, software and projectors to create an interactive system capturing movement from the orchestra and translating it into painting with coloured light. In this way the orchestra conductor was able to “paint” the scene through his gestures within an interactive space. Similarly orchestra members, dancers and a special signing choir for the deaf images were blended into the backdrop in real-time such that their velocity of movement affected the color of image generation and collage composition.
Raewyn Turner interpreted the sound to colour and smell using the correspondences that she made between sound/silence and light/dark. The translations involved intuitive drawing, charts, measurements, referral to the seasonal time of harvest of aromatic plants, and an equation which produces a selection of plants from which to choose smell pitch.

The performances were an improvisation and a real - time translation of sound and the gestures of making that sound, into light and colour, and multiple layers of smell. The light collage thus created was a play of interaction between live video feeds and sensors, and coloured light pre-programmed to an interpretation of sound, each affecting the other in a dynamic visual loop. "

Source: Link to more information and where you can download media files

Article

Tony Brooks Towards New Multisensory Spaces and Environments [198 KB ]

Youtube Excerpt

Silk Chroma - Honouring Prize - Visual Music Award

2011-10-21T20:03:00.000+01:00

Silk Chroma a visual music piece that I created in collaboration with the Irish Composer Linda Buckley and closely worked also with Dermot Furlong and Gavin Kearney at the end of 2010 has won an honouring prize at the forthcoming Visual Music Award 2011. I am totally delighted!

Visit website - Visual Music Award 2011

Visual Music Award @ Cocoon Club, Frankfurt Germany
Photographs of the event have been put up by the organisers on their facebook page.
Some photographs of Silk Chroma have been put on this page...what a stunning venue the Cocoon Club.

Visual Music Award Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/VisualMusicAward

Silk Chroma can be seen on vimeo

Silk Chroma from Silk Chroma on Vimeo.

Silk Chroma - the silent version is also showing at the Expanded Abstraction Exhibition, LACMA Museum's Stark Bar, Los Angeles as part of a curated show by the Center for Visual Music, this exhibition will continue until late January 2012 http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm
Silk Chroma is also being shown at the forthcoming Seeing Sound Symposium at Bath Spa University, Bath Spa, UK http://www.seeingsound.co.uk/
This weekend (22nd October 2011) Silk Chroma is starting the Sonic Pop Up concert as part of Dublin Contemporary. http://www.dublincontemporary.com/home/news/events_this_week1

FOLDS video installation - Robert Seidal

2011-10-12T08:48:00.001+01:00

FOLDS
Robert Seidel
Lindenau Museum, Altenburg / Germany
18.6.ˆ14.8.2011

FOLDS is a 2-channel video installation with projections on 19th century plaster casts of Kladeos, Kephissos,
Belvedere Torso, Seer and the Three Goddesses from the Bernhard August von Lindenau Collection.
It connects to the fragmentary plaster casts, makes them flow with bygone colors, clothes them and wakes
them for a moment then to be stored as into the sediment of oblivion.

Documentation of the installation
Vimeo // http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds
Youtube // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmg3L0ai5Uo
Web // http://www.robertseidel.com/folds.225.0.html
Catalog // http://www.lindenau-museum.de/index.php?id=96
PR // http://robertseidel.com/folds_lindenau-museum_robert-seidel.pdf

Websites:

Studio Robert Seidel
http://www.robertseidel.com
Robert Seidel Vimeo Channel
http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds

View Folds Documentation on Vimeo

folds | installation documentation | lindenau museum altenburg, germany | robert seidel | 2011 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

Yan Breuleux - Experimental Animation Video - Immersion

2011-09-02T12:54:00.000+01:00

Yan Breuleux's beautiful works are really worth checking out. Based in Montreal, both teaching in the faculty of Music at the University of Montreal and completing a Phd, he has accumulated a large portfolio of works that are documented clearly on his website.
Website: http://www.ybx.ca/

Yan Breuleux's animations are quite beautiful and some of their presentations and installations are quite breathtaking. He collaborates with musicians and composers and creates pieces for multi-screen, panoramic and hemispheric presentations. He is interested in the influence of architecture in audio visual performance and some of these projects are incredible in their scale and drama. An example project has been documented on flickr.
"En préparation de la diffusion de La Tempête pour écran vertical.
Une Nuit en Galilée
spectacles Samedi 23 Juillet à 20:00"
Flickr link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yanbreuleux/sets/72157627253334252/with/5963100991/

PURFORM

Yan Breuleux also collaborates with composer Alain Thibault as the duo PURFORM to create Immersion Video-Music
http://www.purform.com/

Vimeo Channel

http://www.vimeo.com/purform/videos

Example Project highlighted in this blog post

White Box

"A/V performance for a tryptic of HD video screens and quadraphonic audio.
White Box is a work based on a new way of generating A/V compositions in real time and is a new piece in a cycle that began in 2003 with Black Box. This cycle metaphorically transposes, into sound and images, concepts from systems theory related to black, white and grey boxes.
Visuals: Yan Breuleux
Music: Alain Thibault
Captation video: Christian Pomerleau: gridspace.ca"
Source: http://www.vimeo.com/21591024

PREVIEW White Box

WHITE BOX | PREVIEW from Purform on Vimeo.