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.

Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music

Los Angeles premieres. Co-presented with Center for Visual Music

“Joost Rekveld has provided an undeniable masterpiece with #37.” International Film Festival Rotterdam

This ravishing “play of light” explores rhythmic abstractions in the cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld’s #37 (Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly beautiful study of the propagation and diffraction of light through crystalline structures. Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup also offers award-winning animated shorts from around the world, most of which are screening in L.A. for the first time. Featured artists include Scott Draves, Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen, Bärbel Neubauer, Thorsten Fleisch, Bret Battey, Michael Scroggins, Samantha Krukowski, Mondi, Devon Damonte, Scott Nyerges, Vivek Patel and Yusuke Nakajima. Plus the final film by the late CGI wizard Richard “Doc” Baily.

In person: Joost Rekveld

Curated by Center for Visual Music with Steve Anker.

http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/

http://www.redcat.org/event/lichtspiel

Advanced Curator Notes

Links to Artists websites

Center for Visual Music
Scott Draves
Joost Rekveld
Robert Seidel
Steven Woloshen
Bärbel Neubauer
Thorsten Fleisch
Bret Battey
Michael Scroggins
Samantha Krukowski
Mondi Vimeo Channel
Devon Damonte
Scott Nyerges
Vivek Patel
Yusuke Nakajima

Ryoichi Kurokawa - Japan - audiovisual artist

"Ryoichi Kurokawa is a japanese audiovisual artist. His works take on multiple forms such as screening works, recordings, installation and live performance. Kurokawa composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. Kurokawa accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition. He also performed live-visual for musicians such as HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE(ex.YMO: Sketch Show + Ryuichi Sakamoto). In recent years, Kurokawa is invited to numerous noted international festivals and museums in Europe, US and Asia including TATE MODERN[UK], ARS ELECTRONICA[AT], transmediale[DE], Shanghai eARTS[CN], MUTEK[CA], TodaysArt[NL] and SONAR[ES] for exhibition, screening or audiovisual concert, and he continues to be an active presence on the international stage."
Website: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/

Youtube:Ryoichi Kurokawa (Osaka, JP) @ cimatics 17/11 video clip - Audiovisual concert



Link to youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSiVgRDrk4

New work Rheo - audiovisual concert
"rheo is a triptych 5.1 surround sound cross-media performance by Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP). rheo will be premiered on March 19 & 20 at VIA Festival (Maubeuge, FR) and on April 2 & 3 at EXIT Festival (Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris). (rheo is a Cimatics production)
website: http://www.cimatics.com/cms_site/news/archive/article.php?id=21