Ted Brickman - Video Mapping

Made in Cornebarrieu near Toulouse. The images were made by Ted Brickman, Dc.olfta, pauline Monnet, Julien Rondot. The soundtrack designed by Julien SanFrancisco.

Vimeo documentation of Video Mapping - Mapping "à la maison"

Mapping - Cornebarrieu - Toulouse from ted brickman on Vimeo.

See Ted Brickman's website - excellent work and thoughts and ideas on VJ and music and sound. In French
http://www.tedbrickman.com/

Bret Battey - Sinus Aestum (2009)

Bret Battey - Sinus Aestum (2009)

Bret Battey is a composer of audio-visual artworks. He uses "custom software and generative techniques to create hybrid sound and image evocations of distinctive ways of being in the world". This work "Sinus Aestum" needs to be seen in high quality visuals and audio. I was lucky to see this work presented in Bath Spa last year. Quite incredible. However, the vimeo excerpt gives you a good idea of the piece. Enjoy.


Sinus Aestum (Luna Series #3) (2009) from Bret Battey on Vimeo.

"Sinus Aestum (Bay of Billows) is a dark lunar plain articulated by threads of white dust, like tips of flowing and silent waves. Drawing from this image, the sound and image composition "Sinus Aestum" presents one sound-synthesis process and nearly 12,000 individual points, which are continually transformed and warped, restrained and released, without cuts, to form compound, multi-dimensional waves of activity moving through unstable states between plateaus of pitch and noise. Mathematical processes are transformed into a contemplation of the continual ebb and flow of human experience." Source: http://vimeo.com/12854049

Summer School Masterclass: Visual Music Collaborative Report

A very interesting workshop on visual music took place July 19 - July 23 2010 at Eyebeam, New York.

Summer School Masterclass: Visual Music Collaborative

Visual Music Collaborative Workshop - July 2010, New York
http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/workshop

It was "led by Eyebeam Fellow Aaron Meyers, in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International...Up to 11 participants will be invited to explore the relationship between music, sound, and dynamically generated imagery and motion. Topics will include sound-analysis techniques, advanced OpenGL programming, and interfacing with mobile control devices. Guest speakers and musicians provide additional insight. The master class culminates in an event where participants perform using work created during the week."
More information on the press release
http://eyebeam.org/events/summer-school-masterclass-visual-music-collaborative

More links
http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/visual-music-collaborative-events/
http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/workshop

The workshop had a ompetitive application process. Applicants had to be at least at the graduate level of study, or have an emerging creative practice, and have established experience using OpenFrameworks, Processing, or an equivalent programming tool. Hence the imagery that has come from this work shop is based on programming processes.

Participants: http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/participants

VISUAL MUSIC BLOG AND VIDEO ARCHIVE
http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/
A really excellent blog resource for contemporary practice on visual music, is the support blog for the event, set up to document and provide information that came from the workshop. The authors of the blog urge those interested in visual music to:
Check here often for inspirational visual music material and updates leading up to the workshop.
Archive: http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/archive

Visual Music Archive
http://visualmusic.tumblr.com/archive

 Visual Music Collaborative [Events] – Results

A webpage at www.creativeapplications.net has a written a results report, on the collection of work produced at the recent Visual Music Collaborative workshop hosted by Eyebeam this July in NYC.
http://www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/visual-music-collaborative-events-results/

See also: Eyebeam Flickr Stream

Example of Video from workshop

Lars Berg  - The illusionist


the Illusionist from Lars Berg on Vimeo.

Jon Behrens - Pure Cinema

THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES by Jon Behrens

experiments with "creating mats with liquid latex directly on the film emulsion then bleaching off all the excess image around the latex and using the clear bleached sections of film as a canvas to paint my film poem, I used special inks that were custom made just for me called Kenville Dyes I then to re-photographed it all on my beloved JK optical printer. I also created this films sound design.
2008, 16mm color sound 7 ½ min"
Source: http://www.vimeo.com/7352980

The Production and Decay of Strange Particles. from Jon Behrens on Vimeo.

THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES In this film I began to experiment more with creating mats with liquid latex directly on the film emulsion then bleaching off all the excess image around the latex and using the clear bleached sections of film as a canvas to paint my film poem, I used special inks that were custom made just for me called Kenville Dyes I then to re-photographed it all on my beloved JK optical printer. I also created this films sound design.
2008, 16mm color sound 7 ½ min

This film is available for rental in 16mm from Canyon Cinema
www.canyoncinema.com

For more information on me
www.jonbehrensfilms.com

SCREENING

Experiments In New Media presents an Evening of Pure Cinema by Jon Behrens
August 26th, 2010, 20h
The Grand Detour
215 SE Morrison, Suite 2020
Portland, Oregon, USA

For more information on this event see:
http://www.expcinema.com/site/en/events/experiments-in-new-media-jon-behrens

Center for Visual Music - VIMEO CHANNEL

The Center for Visual Music has set up a vimeo channel to show excerpts from Films from the Collection of Center for Visual Music archive. Many have been preserved by CVM and/or curated by CVM in programs seen worldwide.
http://vimeo.com/channels/124018

This channel is an excellent resource for those wishing to see excerpts from the CVM collection archive and is worth keeping a regular check as more films are added to the channel. It is just wonderful to see William Moritz discuss Oskar Fischinger's work, to see the Lumigraph Film (c. 1969) by Elfriede Fischinger (excerpt). This is a very valuable vimeo channel for fans and scholars of visual music.

Center for Visual Music - Vimeo Channel

www.centerforvisualmusic.org

First-Ever Vimeo® Festival & Awards

First-Ever Vimeo® Festival & Awards Celebrates Creative Online Video and Opens for Awards Submission

Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC , opened the submissions window today for the Vimeo Awards, which honors creative and original online videos and the people that create them.

Starting today, people around the world can submit their videos for consideration across nine judged categories. The judges will choose the Best Online Video from the top videos in each category, and that winner will receive a $25,000 grant to produce new work. Videos must have debuted online within the past two years to be considered. Vimeo will announce the winners during an awards ceremony at the close of its two-day festival on October 8-9 in New York City. Additionally, Vimeo will preview some of the finalists' work at a screening event in Amsterdam in September.

"The Vimeo Festival & Awards is an acknowledgement of--and showcase for-- the unprecedented level of creativity, skill and innovation coming from online video today," said Dae Mellencamp, Vimeo's General Manager. "We believe that the awards will not only honor the best work but, by pairing it with a festival, will also bring creative online communities together to learn from and be inspired by each other."

http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208192&Itemid=58

Shane McKenna - Moving Lights in D

Shane McKenna is a composer and video artist based in Ireland, who creates the most intricate muscial visual music pieces.  He expolores the use of animated graphic notation to create musical collaboration.
His latest piece - Moving Lights in D is a wonderful example of his approach.  It can be viewed on Vimeo and is embedded in this post


Moving Lights in D from Shane Mc Kenna on Vimeo.

Information about Moving Lights in D
"To experiment with processed video footage as an animated score I performed this short piece myself in twenty separate takes on both classical guitar and electric bass. Each track was recorded listening to playback from the previous track only to allow some interaction between parts but a free feeling overall. I stayed within the key of Dmaj to tie the layers together while following the visual rhythms gave a sense of pulse at certain points. Playing along with D maj or B min scales will sound tasty if you have an instrument handy or just follow the visuals with any notes or sounds, why not?"
Source: Vimeo description
http://www.vimeo.com/10864184

Links
http://www.vimeo.com/user921277
http://www.myspace.com/smkenna

Vimeo Video Channels

There are some really interesting vimeo channels showcasing contemporary work in the audio visual field. These channels are a great opportunity to see what is going on with audio visual work/art/music today. They also demonstrate how many different fields that audio visual works are taking place in - such as in installation settings, as interfaces, in gallery spaces, as films and animations led by music collaborations and music label collaborations - there are just so many ways now in which audio and visual are being put together...I like to still call all these approaches visual music. (Author Comment)

Experimental Motion Graphics Channel http://vimeo.com/channels/motiongraphics

Designflux
http://vimeo.com/channels/designflux "Designflux exists as a quarterly publication, bringing together interviews, reviews and portfolios of the best in contemporary motion design. This channel acts as a means to showcase work we are watching at Designflux as well as to publish special information on up and coming issues. More info at www.designflux.com"

Check out also http://vimeo.com/videomusical - suggested by Gabriel Shalom