Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Silk Chroma - Visual Music Piece

I was lucky to be involved in the creation of the visual music visuals for a collaborative work entitled "Silk Chroma". Working as a collaborative team to create this work was a wonderful experience. The Irish composer Linda Buckley was a pleasure to work with and the electro-acoustic composition that she composed is beautiful. Linda and I worked closely together to realise the ideas for the work, interestingly Linda described much of the music she would like to create in visual terms that really appealed to me and inspired the visuals. Similarly some visuals and still images that I created inspired sounds and timbres for Linda. Good stuff.

Silk Chroma is an audio-visual work that is inspired by the novella Silk by Alessandro Baricco as a conceptual framework for the creation of a Visual Music colour presentation, with an accompanying electro-acoustic musical composition using synthesized timbres and a surround sound presentation.

Silk Chroma was created by staff teaching on the Music and Media Technologies (MMT) postgraduate programme at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and University of York, UK. MMT silk chroma team: Dr. Dermot Furlong, Dr. Linda Buckley, Maura McDonnell and University of York:  Dr. Gavin Kearney.


screengrab from scene 1 - Silk Chroma
The premiere presentation of Silk Chroma as audio-visual installation took place in the Printing House in Trinity College, Dublin as part of the Innovation Dublin 2010 on November 11th and 12th, 2010.

Visual Music: Maura McDonnell
Music Composition: Linda Buckley
Surround Sound Composition: Gavin Kearney
Concept: Dermot Furlong

Website Links:
MMT music and media technologies course, TCD, Dublin - Link
vimeo website - Link

VIEW ON VIMEO
The video is for viewing on vimeo in three sections.

Section 1 - Water flow over his body


Silk Chroma - Section 1 - Water Flow Over His Body from Silk Chroma on Vimeo.

Section 2 - Silk threads stopped time


Silk Chroma - Section 2 - Silk Threads Stopped Time from Silk Chroma on Vimeo.

Section 3 - Birds in flight


Silk Chroma - Section 3 - Birds in Flight from Silk Chroma on Vimeo.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

IQBIT - Electronic Music Composer - Collaboration with Visual Artists

Barcelona based IQBIT is an electronic composer from Rome based in Barcelona, Spain. IQBIT collaborates with Visual Artists, creating electronic music and sound for collaborative video and audio visual projects.  The works from these colloborations are both linked to research in synaesthesia but are also definitely are Visual Music.  Their visual music arises from a collaboration between music composers and visual artists, so the resulting video is a unity of the composition of visual and audio material.  Some of the videos are live sets - consisting of live audio and video. The words used to describe their works - sound video. Their live sets are described as Audio Visual Projects.
Iqbit myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/iqbit

Collaborations with xx+xy visuals

Bo Za AV project

IQBIT has created the sound for a Audio Video live set with visuals by xx+xy visuals.
This project is called Bo Za AV project and is documented online on the xx+xy visuals website. There are also high quality video excerpts.
Project Description: "Abstract and graphic audiovisual language presenting itself into rhythmic synch where the transfigurations is controlled thorough the digital animation process. The live project, sound and imagery are synchronized asserting a form of glitch minimalism re-assembled into rhythmic audio-visual landscape. Time of the gig 30min."

http://www.xxxyvisuals.com/projectBoZa.htm
Watch Live Link

Rabbi

AV collaborative project by xx+xy visuals with IQBIT
"Experimental video project based on sound by IQBIT. The name of the work is directly inspired by the name
of the sound piece from IQBIT EP Liminal ‘08. This work is based on single black and white image that was
chosen among variety of images commonly used as desktop picture and typically representing beautiful
landscapes displayed on our desktop computers. This image is not representing any more urban landscape
with one bridge heading to some-where but is reconstructed into abstract and unique audiovisual language
presenting itself into rhythmic AV synch where the transfigurations is inspired and also controlled thorough
the digital animation process. This digital process of transfiguration of the image into abstract and computer
based work that use sound as source material, gives us the possibility to re-construct animations and
imagery through controlled rhythmic audio synch and effects of the software. The Rabbi sound and imagery
are synchronized asserting a form of glitch minimalism re-assembled into rhythmic audio-visual landscape. "
Source: Rabbi Project Description
http://www.xxxyvisuals.com/projects/AV_Rabbi_xxxy_iqbit/Rabbi-description_bio.pdf
Video excerpts at the above link also.
Quick link to video here.
Rabbi version 2 video link.

Zpac and Shart

Watch Zpac
Watch Shart


Collaborations with Lasal

Kristallographie - 2009



Links
xx+xy visuals
Lasal
http://www.myspace.com/iqbit

Friday, May 15, 2009

Nancy Herman - Visual Music

Nancy creates visual music works in both BlissPaint and Flash as the artist says, she creates "work that actually could be 'played' in real time if the colors were attached to keys on a musical key board."
Her desire is to create an instrument that could play color in time. The key issue for Nancy is to "'tune' the color through several spectra creating a smooth transition from light to dark. I think the color itself will create the 'music' over time- note the shapes of the color, or the way the color moves". Source: Artist website - www.nancyherman.com

Nancy has created several of these color in time works and they are available to preview on her website at:
http://visualmusic.nancyherman.com/

Link to Satie's Gymnopodies

I have been aware of Nancy's work for long time and meant to blog about this ages ago. Very consistent and accurate color in time works, worth checking out.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Junk Box Fraud - Multimedia Performance - Ireland


Junk Box Fraud -is an incredible music composition by Irish Composer Donnacha Dennehy for cl, trb, 2 pf, 2 speakers, tape, video [video by Hugh Reynolds and Gerry O'Brien]

This video in the vimeo excerpt was performed by Crash Ensemble, Natasha Lohan and Laura Moody at Shindig concert, SS Michael & John, Dublin, 13.10.07 with cameras by Mark Linnane and John Bates.

http://www.donnachadennehy.com
The video was premiered by Crash Ensemble in the Samuel Beckett theatre in 1997, which I saw and credit with my crazy but exciting path into visual music... it was an incredible work and is one my favourite multimedia music compositions - visuals and music.  That particular performance was sheer magic. It was the sheer combination of energies of the singer performances, the energy and speed of the rhythm of the music and the incredible energy and appearance and disappearance of the visuals in the video projection behind the musicians, the impact of this work and the blackness of the theatre setting of the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity College, Dublin left me reeling - this was one amazing performance, composition and video...and still is of course. (Author comment)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

This Narrator is Blind - Experimental Video



The title of the video refers to the legend of Homerus, the ancient greek author, who wrotes beautiful poems, although he was blind. 

"the video it's , let's say, an accidental video; I was very sad and nervous, filming the sun behind some leaves, till I saw these fast and continuously changing figures... I thought that my camera was going crazy, like myself. Than , some months later, I recorded a guitar base, and edited those images on the music." 
Video Artist: Ruggero

YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiajnXGQjBw

Monday, April 20, 2009

Visual Music Marathon - New York - Review

The MFA Computer Art Department at School of Visual Arts, the New York Digital Salon and the Department of Music and Multimedia Studies at Northeastern University presented the New York premiere of the Visual Music Marathon. The screenings of the 120 visual music works took place in the new Chelsea Visual Arts Theatre, recently acquired by the School of Visual Arts, New York. The theatre was an excellent venue for the screening of the works.   The schedule for the event and the program catalog can be downloaded from:
http://www.2009vmm.neu.edu/schedule.html

I was fortunate to have also attended the Boston premiere of the Visual Music Marathon held
in 2007, hence many of the wonderful works on show I had seen before and had become familiar with since.  After the first presentation of the event, I had some clear favourites, and these were still the case - such as Jean Detheux's wonderful works - Rupture, Liaisons, Daydream Mechanics V Sketch 3, Semiconductor's 200 Nanowebbers, Fran Hartnett's Navigating the Pearl System, Gordon Monro's Dissonant Particles, Larry Cuba's Calculated Movements, Dennis H. Miller's White Noise , Scott Drave's 165 Star Oasis.  After the viewing in New york other works came to my attention, the incredible lucsious works of Stephanie Maxwell - Time Streams and All that Remains and Bonnie Mitchel's 2BTextures. The skilfull composition of Barbara Neubauer's Passage, the rhythmic constructions of Brian Evans's Pipilo, the drama of Jeffers Egan's Bati Dominance.

To be fair, all the works were incredible in this marathon.  This is also a credit to the artistic director Dennis H. Miller, who curated the works that were shown.  The Visual Music Marathon program catalog is really worth exploring, if you wish to further investigate any of the artists whose works were shown at the event.  Download the program from the Visual Music Marathon North Eastern University homepage. Quick link here.

George Stadnik presented a really exciting installation of his lumia compositions on 3D tv and demonstrated an exciting presentation of the possibilities of lumia compositions in installation settings.  There were two live acts who presented their live audio-video performances in the Visual Arts Theatre - the incredibly tight minamilist work of Chiaki Watanabe with David Galbraith music.  The incredibly colourful work of S2; SIMSTIM SQUARED with Marjan Moghaddam on images and Adam Caine on music.  Interestingly, the live acts drew a packed audiences into the theatre who many left before the incredible film of Jean Detheux.  What a pity.  Still, nice to see some young people there, taking an interest in Visual Music.


Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Visual Music Marathon - April 11th New York

Visual Music Marathon to be held in New York on April 11th, 2009

For Immediate Release

Contact: Keri Murawski
212.592.2164, kmurawski@sva.edu
Dennis Miller
617.373.4132, de.miller@neu.edu

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, THE NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON AND NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PRESENT THE 2009 VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON

GENRE-BENDING WORK BY OVER 100 ARTISTS FROM 15 COUNTRIES

Saturday, April 11, 10am — 10pm
Visual Arts Theater, School of Visual Arts
333 West 23 Street, New York
Free and open to the public


The MFA Computer Art Department at School of Visual Arts, the New York Digital Salon and the Department of Music and Multimedia Studies at Northeastern University present the New York premiere of the Visual Music Marathon, a 12-hour festival showcasing 120 works by contemporary digital artists and composers from around the world. The event offers an encyclopedic look into the burgeoning practice of visual music, which combines animation and musical composition. The roots of the genre date back more than two hundred years to the ocular harpsichords and color-music scales of the 18th century; the current art form came to fruition following the emergence of film and video in the 20th century.

PREVIEW ANIMATION from Visual Music Marathon


The Visual Music Marathon presents a remarkable array of artistic strategies and sensibilities. Some of the selected works consist of abstract visual interpretations of pieces of music, while others apply structural concepts of music to create moving images, or explore the overlap between visual and musical languages. The artists make use of a range of media and technologies, including found footage, hand-drawn animation, stop-motion photography, digitally processed video, computer-generated imagery, and paintings made directly on film. Works include audio tracks ranging from computer-generated scores, to sampled sounds from nature, to both classical and contemporary musical compositions.

Northeastern University faculty member Dennis Miller, artistic director and curator for the festival, explains, “With the Visual Music Marathon, we have put together the largest and most
historically representative selection of work in this field. It is a unique opportunity to see the best of cutting-edge digital art from around the world as well as rarely screened historical gems in the field of visual music.” Bruce Wands, chair of the MFA Computer Art Department at SVA and curator of the New York Digital Salon hour of the Marathon, remarked, “We are excited to share all of these works with the city of New York–the majority of which have never been seen here before. It is a wonderfully diverse group of films, which gives a sense of the creativity and momentum in this field right now.”

The program includes works by established figures in the field, such as Canadian/Belgian artist Jean Detheux (Daydream Mechanics V Sketch 3, Rupture and Liaisons), Icelandic artist Steina
Vasulka (Trevor), Austrian artist Tina Frank (Chronomops, Pitbudp) and American artists
Stephanie Maxwell (Time Streams, All That Remains) and Karen Aqua (Kakania, Sensorium).

The festival also presents the work of emerging digital artists including SVA alumnus Joe Tekippe (2006 MFA Computer Art; Modal Drawing Toy), German artist Robert Seidel (_grau) and UKbased artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt of Semiconductor (200 Nanowebbers), among others. In addition to the contemporary works, the program will include examples of rare, historic works from early practitioners of the art form, such as Hans Richter and Oskar Fischinger, which will be screened on 16mm film. The Visual Music Marathon will also feature live audio-visual acts: 1/X, performed by artist and SVA alumnus Chiaki Watanabe (1996 BFA Computer Art) and musician David Galbraith; and S2: Simstim Squared, performed by artist Marjan Moghaddam and composer Adam Caine.

The MFA Computer Art Department at SVA emphasizes creative experimentation and a multidisciplinary approach. Dedicated to producing digital artists of the highest caliber, the department guides each student in the development of a personal artistic style and in a course of study that is individually tailored to meet his or her needs. The two-year, 60-credit MFA degree
program offers several areas of specialization: animation, digital video, installation and digital fine art, interactive media, networked media and performance, or the option of a multidisciplinary track. Work by students in the department has been honored by the Student Academy Awards and appeared in such prestigious venues as the Whitney Biennial; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater; the Ars Electronica Center; and the Annecy, Ottowa and New York Animation Festivals.

Since 1993, the New York Digital Salon (NYDS) has served as a catalyst for greater public awareness and appreciation of new media art, and continues to promote the creative use of technology and innovation in contemporary art. The NYDS maintains an extensive online archive of digital art, artists and essays. The NYDS contributes to cultural growth through educational and public programs, exhibitions and screenings, both nationally and internationally.
A project of the MFA Computer Art Department at SVA, the NYDS has received support from the NEA, the Rockefeller Foundation, NYSCA, and NESTA-UK, among others.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. The University’s distinctive cooperative education program, where students alternate semesters of full-time study with semesters of paid work in fields relevant to their professional interests and major, is one of the largest and most innovative in the world. The University offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate.

School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.

Media Contact: For more information, please contact Keri Murawski at 212.592.2164 or e-mail kmurawski@sva.edu.

Image: Sean Capone, from The Plain Silvery Side of This Disc, 2006

For further details about the festival or to view the April 11 program schedule, please visit www.2009vmm.neu.edu and www.nydigitalsalon.org.


LINKS TO ARTISTS/ORGANISATIONS MENTIONED IN THIS PRESS RELEASE

Dennis Miller
Bruce Wands
Jean Detheux
Steina Vasulka
Tina Frank
Stephanie Maxwell
Karen Aqua
Joe Tekippe
Robert Seidel
Semiconductor
Chiaki Watanabe
David Galbraith
Marjan Moghaddam
Adam Caine
New York Digital Salon

Monday, October 13, 2008

Call For Works - MuVi2


MuVi 2

International exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music.

MuVi2 invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of kinetic works to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. Visual Music exhibition is part of the Third International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science & Art", to be held from the 26th to the 29th of April 2009, Parque de las Ciencias, and "Sala de la Delegación de Cultura de la Diputación de Granada", Spain.

Deadline for submissions
Latest date for submissions is 30 November 2008 (date of postage).
http://www.artecitta.es/textos/Call%20MuVi2.pdf

http://www.artecitta.es/textos/CallMuVi2.zip

Detailed Information

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF VIDEO AND
MOVING IMAGE ON SYNESTHESIA AND VISUAL MUSIC
SALA DE LA DELEGACIÓN DE CULTURA DE LA DIPUTACIÓN DE GRANADA (SPAIN),
26-29TH APRIL 2009

CALL FOR KINETIC WORKS
MuVi2 invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors
and university students, to submit proposals of kinetic works to be part of
a public exhibition, with performances and discussions. Visual Music
exhibition is part of the Third International Congress "Synaesthesia:
Science & Art", to be held from the 26th to the 29th of April 2009, Parque
de las Ciencias, in Granada, Spain.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Latest date for submissions is 30 November 2008 (date of postage).

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.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
The call is for two categories of participants:
. Participant A: professionals (artists, musicians, designers and performers)
. Participant B: university (B1: professors; B2: students, or graduated
within the last 12 months).

WHAT CAN YOU SUBMIT?
Any Moving Image (video, animations, etc.) - only visual kinetic work,
audiovisual, or interactive
- is eligible for submission. University professors can submit a collection
of didactic works. Students, one or more works, produced in an university
course.
The work does not have to be published and must be free from copyrights.

HOW TO MAKE SUBMISSIONS
Digital work can be submitted on Cd-Rom or Dvd. The files with the works
can be in the following
formats: .MOV, .AVI, .MPEG, .SWF. For other formats, send your questions
to: info@artecitta.es, or info@sinestesie.it. Each work, or collection of
works, must be accompanied with the appropriate "Entry Form" completed.
Please do not send videotapes.
We cannot return CDs and Dvd.

WHAT ARE THE FEES?
The fee is kept to an absolute minimum, and is used only to finance the
organisation of the project.
All works selected for exhibition will be published on a Dvd free of any
further charges.
Entry fee for each work (or collection):
- Participant A: 100 € (before 1th Oct. 2008); 150 € (after 1th Oct.
2008)
- Participant A (affiliate FIAC): 70 € (before 1th Oct. 2008); 100 €
(after 1th Oct. 2008)
- Partecipant B1: 70 € (before 1th Oct. 2008); 100 € (after 1th Oct.
2008)
- Partecipant B2: 40 € (before 1th Oct. 2008); 50 € (after 1th Oct.
2008)
(Account: n. 2031 0161 27 01158 17408, Titular: Fun. Int. Arte Città. "Fond
MuVi 2009, YOUR NAME [Partecipant A or B1 or B2]". Bank Caja Granada. IBAN:
ES19 2031 0161 2701 1581 7408)

PRIZE AND PUBLICATION
The best work of the MuVi2 receives a prize of 1.000 euros. The prize is
offered by the Diputación de Granada that will promote the best works in
the artistic circuits.
The 10 best works received will be admitted to the exhibition (10 for the
Participant A category and 10 for Participant B).
The best 20 works (with their descriptions), will be published on a book
and Dvd. For this, the works do not have to be published and free from
copyrights.
The selection of the works will be edited by the Exposition committee.
All participants will be informed about the Exposition Committee decision
by e-mail by 31st January 2009.

EXPOSITION COMMITTEE
Giovanni Baule and Dina Riccò (Indaco Department, Faculty of Design,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mª María José de Córdoba (Fundación Internacional Artecittà, Granada)
Juan Carlos Sanz (Professor of Diseño y Comunicación Visual, Madrid)
Carlos Villalobos, Ana García, Carmen Hidalgo, Asunción Jódar, Jesús
Pertíñez López (Dibujo y animación Department, Faculty of Bellas Artes de
Granada)
Tremedad Gnecco Suarez (Faculty of Ciencias de la Educación, University of
Granada)
José López Montes (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Granada)
Mª Pilar García Calero (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla)
José Antonio Fernández Fernandez (www.inter-modal.org, A Coruña)
Comisión valoración artística Palacio de los Condes de Gabia (Diputación de
Granada).

YOUR SUBMISSION HAS TO INCLUDE:
1. One "Entry form" for each work (send by email to: info@artecitta.es and
info@sinestesie.it)
2. A package with Cd-Rom/Dvd (with the file of the work), one Entry form
for each work printed
and signed, and the payment form (send to: Artecittà, at the address below).
Send two copies (printed and signed) with the Cd or Dvd.

1. A copy to (you attach the payment form to this copy):
International Foundation Artecittà
C/Alhamar n. 30, 1° - 18004, Granada, Spain

2. A copy to:
Prof. Dina Riccò, Politecnico di Milano University, Faculty of Design
Via Durando 38/a, 20158 Milano, Italy

ANY QUESTIONS ARE TO BE DIRECTED TO:
info@artecitta.es or info@sinestesie.it; also, see the web site:
www.sinestesia2009.info.

MUVI. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
Direction and coordination: Dina Riccò (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Organization: María José de Córdoba (Fundación Internacional Artecittà)
With the support of: Comisión valoración artística (Palacio de los Condes
de Gabia, Granada).
Patrons: Universidad de Granada (Faculty of Farmacia, Psicología,
Filosofía y Letras, Ciencias de la Educación, Bellas Artes), Politecnico di
Milano (Faculty of Design), Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de
Granada, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla, ESCO (Escuela
Superior de Comunicación), Diputación de Granada, Ministerio de Cultura of
the Spain.
With the contribution of: Parque de las Ciencias in Granada.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Restless Brilliance



"Restless Brilliance", an evening exploring new trajectories in music and video.

"VOLUME and the Hammer Museum present Restless Brilliance, an evening exploring new trajectories in music and video. Showcasing new work in the emergent field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presented artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art.

This installment of our ongoing series with the Hammer Musuem presents a live performance by Shuttle358, and a screeningof Colorfield Variations organized by artists Richard Chartier."
Source: http://www.volumeprojects.org/ and http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/calendar_full_Sep_2008.htm#day24

Check out one of the artists beautiful works.

Tina Frank - Chronomops, 2006


chronomops from Tina Frank on Vimeo.

Tina Frank Website

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Dissociative Fugue video - Stretta


See Video on You Tube

"This was an attempt to visualize some of the abstract noise that goes on inside my head when listening to music. At first blush, it may not seem that different from a software visualizer. Unfortunately, visualizers are bound by the analysis of a stereo mix. While a it may extract information from certain frequency ranges, it can't really tell a clarinet from a duduk and represent each discretely. Here, each element has its own visual counterpart." Source

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Screen Music Event - Digicult.it


Screen Music - Digicult.it - [Italy] 30 November - 2 December 2006

Visual Music Programme
"Visual Music Program - Monografie: Reline 2 project, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Meta.am – 90'
Visual Music Program - Montevideo Program / Argos program – 50'"