Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s

Visual Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-1970s
Northwest Film Forum and The Sprocket Society, in association with Center For Visual Music, present this special series celebrating the history of Visual Music, at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, April 9 - 13, 2010.

Over the past century, there have been a number of prescient artists who’ve approached cinema as a tool for merging visual art and music in order to create a new art form and explore uncharted areas of synaesthetic experience. Through a vibrant history of cinematic experiments, these pioneers have been inventing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and technologies on which our modern image-and-sound culture is based.

VISUAL MUSIC is a rare opportunity to see restored film prints of work by such master animators as Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belson, Robert Breer and many others on the big screen. In addition, we’ll host a panel discussion on Seattle’s own history of visual music in the 1960s and early ’70s.

Center for Visual Music provides three programs:

April 9 - Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective

April 10 - Seeing Sound: The Films of Mary Ellen Bute (in association with Cecile Starr), and

April 11 - Jordan Belson, Films Sacred and Profane

The series also features two programs curated by NWFF: Seattle Psychedelics and Sixties Synaesthetics

CVM's Director Cindy Keefer will introduce several programs and discuss the visual music of Fischinger, Bute and Belson.

Series curator: Peter Lucas. This program is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment For The Arts.

Series Website:
http://sensorycinema.org/

http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/


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Still from Oskar Fischinger's Kreise (Circles) (1933), 35mm, color, sound (c) Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Link

Sound and Image Event - Colchester, UK

A unique event encompassing film,artworks, music, live performance and interactive experiences in showcasing the world of *visual music. *Items included range from pioneering work in the field to new pieces created for the evening, from cutting-edge to humorous interpretation and from international prize winning items to local endeavour.

"What does music look like? This is the question that Colchester music lecturer Julia Orpen is attempting to answer at The Headgate Theatre on Sunday 6th December.

The event, entitled “Sound and Image” is part film show, part art show, part concert and is the result of eighteen months personal investigation that has led to both local and global collaboration.
Sub-titled ‘The World of Visual Music’, the series of short films forming the heart of the event include an international award winner and contributions from Australia, Ireland, Austria, Italy and the USA.

Julia Orpen says:

"Experimentation in the possibilities of combining sound and image to create a new art form is diverse and wide-ranging....This event is intended as an exploration into the emerging genre of Visual Music and will range from cutting-edge work to humorous interpretation. There is something here for everyone.”

Music from the following genres will feature: Baroque, avant-garde, psychedelia and jazz

Films being shown include:
D-F-R: Alex Voorhoeve (youtube)
Happy End Von Parov Stelar: Thomas Techert (youtube)
Towards One: Maura McDonnell (youtube)
Nuances for Vox Victimae: Petrinio Bendito (music Didier Guige) (youtube)
13,3,7: 'Servantbass' (youtube)
Flowarama: 'Kildonko' (youtube)
Motion Painting No. 1 : Adam Bruneau (youtube)

Performers include Bill Bradley, who will present a 21st Century take on a 300-year old approach to visual music, and Katie Taylor (Piano).
More information on the event at:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174835577758
Websites
http://www.soundandimage.org.uk/
http://www.headgatetheatre.co.uk/

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