Advanced Beauty - 18 Sound Sculptors

Advanced Beauty - 18 Sound Sculptors - 2009
Curated by Universal Everything
Soundtracks by Freefarm

A DVD was created and there are links to purchase the DVD on their website. The website created to support the collection is excellent with links to the artists whose work is documented online, with video clips online on their website and on their vimeo channel, so all can be seen online which is a great resource.

"Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of audio-reactive 'video sound sculptures'. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.

The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation. Each artist was given the same set of parameters to work within; to start, finish and exist within a white space, creating a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing the same white environment.

Using 1920 HD format, with 5:1 surround sound, the films transform the screen into a digital canvas, how the minimalism of a single, floating pixel can be as engaging as the maximalism of an intense multicoloured explosion.

Curated by Universal Everything and musician Freeform, Advanced Beauty is an international collaboration, taking in a family of artists from London, Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco."
http://advancedbeauty.org/blog/about

PREVIEW VIDEOS

http://advancedbeauty.org/blog/archives/category/previews


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

Filter - Issue 66 - Synchresis

Filter Magazine Issue 66 / Synchresis
Explored:
Australian Sound Artists working at the spontaneous weld between sounds and image.
December 2007.

http://filter.anat.org.au/category/issue-66/

Articles:
Monster and Maps by Mitchell Whitelaw

Synchresis DVD

"The Synchresis DVD, curated by Mitchell Whitelaw brought together ten Australian sound artists:
Gordon Monro,
Wade Marynowsky,
Peter Newman,
Jean Poole,
BotBorg,
Julian Oliver & Steven Pickles,
Robin Fox,
Andrew Gadow and
Abject Leader.

3000 copies were circulated in Filter Issue 66 nationally and internationally and the DVD was launched at the Chauvel Cinema Sydney with live performances by Robin Fox, Peter Newman and Ian Andrews."
http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/synchresis/

Synchresis DVD vimeo channel

The Synchresis DVD works can be seen on ANAT’s Vimeo Channel.
http://www.vimeo.com/anat/videos

Example highlighted here: - PRINCIPLE 4 (excerpt) by Botborg


ANAT, Filter Issue 66 Synchresis, 2007 - PRINCIPLE 4 (excerpt) by Botborg from ANAT on Vimeo.

Filter
"First published as the ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) Bulletin in July 1988, Filter has been informing and inspiring a global network of artists, designers, curators, researchers, writers, educators and creative and research organisations for over two decades. Each issue thematically investigates an area of emerging practice or art form of the future; exploring the new creativities which are occurring across community, culture and industry."
http://filter.anat.org.au/about-filter/

Collection of Visual Music Resources - Amazon

I have only recently got round to compiling some of the books I have checked out (and would like to check out) when researching topics for visual music.  There are also some great DVDs worth getting.  These resources I have compiled into an amazon a store - at present it links to books on the amazon.co.uk website, but I will be also creating a similar one to link to amazon.com

These resources are not all exactly visual music resources, but they are definitely helpful in any kind of visual music investigations or research or in the broader area of audio visual composition/installation/interaction

I have signed up with Amazons affiliate programme, so every link you click from my store and then go onto purchase I get a small percentage.  I am slightly monetising my blog to help pay for the time I spend putting work here, so thanks in advance if you purchase from my astore link to amazon programme.

Link to my compiled resources for Visual Music Research
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/maumcd-21

Ron Pellegrino - EMERGENT MUSIC AND VISUAL MUSIC: INSIDE STUDIES

NEW VISUAL MUSIC RESOURCES from Ron Pellegrino

Ron Pellegrino's website has an extensive amount of resources that are of great relevance for any studies into visual music and visual music visualisers.  Not only does it document his own work, but also provides links to his writings on the area of music and visual studies and writings and resources on visual music. For example some really excellent resources can be found linked from the homepage of his website - http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/
Topics and Resources such as:
Visual Music
Compositional Thinking

Of interest is his recent writings and resources and a book and DVD now available.

EMERGENT MUSIC AND VISUAL MUSIC: INSIDE STUDIES - BOOK and DVD - 2009

Some new visual music resources from Ron Pellegrino that should be of interest to music visualizers:

Just released on Amazon.com  and now available are 

EMERGENT MUSIC AND VISUAL MUSIC: INSIDE STUDIES

Part 1: The Book Part 2; The DVDs
a project of electronic arts pioneer, Ron Pellegrino.
To learn more about the project go to the following URL - http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/Pages/OhNineSiteExtension/Introduction.html or copy "EMERGENT MUSIC AND VISUAL MUSIC: INSIDE STUDIES" into Amazon.com's search field.




VISUAL MUSIC SYNTHESIS SYSTEM

eBay Auction Materials for a Sonic and Visual Music Synthesizer - Synthi AKS and Laser Animator

Also, a unique visual music synthesis system is on the auction block at eBay and will be there until Monday, May 18, 2009. To learn more the system go to the following URL - Sonic & Visual Music Synthesizer.. or go to eBay and copy "Sonic & Visual Music Synthesizer - Synthi AKS & Laser Animator" into eBays search field.

Earlier Visual Music Resources

The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light - The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light by Ronald Pellegrino (c) 1983 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. ISBN 0-442-26499-2. The following website provides excerpts from this book.

"I signed the contract to write The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light in the spring of 1977, started working on it in the fall of 1977, and finished it during the summer of 1981. During those four years I spent more than 9 months out of every year on the road giving multimedia performances in the USA and abroad, teaching music composition and technology for a year at Miami University and for three years at Texas Tech University, consulting on business electronic arts projects, founding/directing and finding funds for The Leading Edge Music Series in Lubbock, Texas, and helping to establish the long running New Music America Festivals. In other words, I was actually working on the subject material of the book and writing about it during the cracks in my schedule.

....

The book covers the first 14 years of my research in the electronic arts - from 1967 to 1981. ... it's the first book to deal in detail with the subjects of visual music, real-time composition, and performance multimedia with electronic instruments (in the 70s and early 80s it was called intermedia or integrated media).

The notion of visual music, a sphere I've been exploring since the late 60s, is just beginning to pick up steam in the late 90s probably because the younger generation of artists is growing up in a multimedia world. The vast majority of older (over 30?) visual artists tend to be studio, gallery, and object oriented. They are materialists with a weak sense of the ephemeral and whatÕs involved in articulating the dynamical flow of time. Specialists in music seem to be too busy with their notes or generally disinclined to explore the sphere of visual music. Finally in the late 90s the new breed of multimedia artist is emerging, younger artists who seem to sense that today's instrument of the electronic arts, the multimedia computer, has the built-in facility for integrating the electronic arts of sound and light. The multimedia computer and a language like Java, that can function as a software multimedia synthesizer, bring us to the threshold of a visual music age."...

Source: Ron Pellegrino - Read full excerpts at:
http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/Pages/EASL_Intro.html

Some relevant links

Visual Music Laser Images

Visual Music

Main Website for Ron Pellegrino

http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/








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Jordan Belson - Five Essential Films

Center for Visual Music announces a new DVD release:

Jordan Belson - Five Essential Films

The DVD includes three classic films:
Allures (1961)
Samadhi (1967)
Light (1973)
A never-before released film: Fountain of Dreams (1984), and
Belson's latest film, Epilogue (2005)

Jordan Belson is one of the greatest artists of visual music. Belson creates lush vibrant experiences of exquisite color and dynamic abstract phenomena evoking sacred celestial experiences. ( William Moritz)

Curated by Jordan Belson, Produced by Center for Visual Music
NTSC, Region-Free, SD, 4:3, TRT approx 45 minutes
$25 private home use, $150 institutions (does not include public performance rights)
June 2007 release

Purchase at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/JBDVD.htm

Belson's bio, bibliography, filmography, plus information re the films on the disc:
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson

book+dvd - "MuVi. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music"

Dina Riccò & Maria José de Cordoba (edited by),
"MuVi. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music"
Edizioni Poli.design, Milano, 2007 [book+DVD]

MuVi, an acronym for Musica Visiva (“Visual Music”), an event of the Second
International Conference "Synaesthesia: Science & Art" (from April 28th to
May 1st 2007, Granada, Spain), is a collection of kinetic visual,
audio-visual or interactive works that spring from music by artists,
musicians, designers and performers. This catalogue collects the works of
the 23 participants that answered the call for kinetic works. The attached
DVD includes 40 movies, for a 150 minute video content.

The book is for sale here:
http://www.hoepli.it/titoli.asp?editore=POLI.+DESIGN

Dina Riccò
Politecnico di Milano - Facoltà del Design
Dipartimento INDACO
via Durando 38/a - 20158 Milano - ITALY
http://www.sinestesie.it