The avant-garde-artists of the “Absolute Film” movement worked on visionary film experiments. They created visual symphonies from animated images which they composed on film according to their perception as artists. These were called “paintings in time”, ”visual music”, “symphonies of light and sound”, “cinematic paintings”, “color light music” or “space light art”.
Target Groups:
The “Visual Music Award 2010” is again an international call for proposals addressing young talents. Invited for participation are young independent creative artists and designers as well as students for example in the disciplines of new media art, experimental film and music video and allied disciplines.
In the year 2010, for the second time, we invite video jockeys (VJs or DJs) and "live-performance" artists to participate with their formats in the new catagory "visual music live contest"!
Criteria of Evaluation:
The competition entries should show a coherent overall concept accompanied by an holistic multi-sensual and expressive aesthetic based on distinguishable excellent skills in technical possibilities.
Not the application of complex high-end technologies but the artistic value, the originality and the composition will built the focus for evaluation by the jury." Source of above information from www.visual-music-award.de
Chiaki Watanabe is performing new live audio visual performances and installations in May, June 2010 at several visual music and audio visual events in Copenhagan, Denmark and Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany.
"Chiaki Watanabe is a visual artist/designer based in Copenhagen, and New York. She creates abstract visual music works in various forms: video, live video performance and installation. Her work explores cross-sensory experience in a minimalist framework by integrating sound and visual imagery. Known for “hardcore-abstract” visuals. Her interest lies in visual phenomena within music and music within visual phenomena – visual music in physical space - psychophysical effects of visual music - how visual music stimulates the senses."(US/JP/DK) Bio at: http://www.camp-festival.de/artists_en.php
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen May.11. 10, 21:00 A new live audiovisual performance/composition with Jørgen Teller (guitar/synth) and Jakob Riis(laptop) at Lille Carl, Dansescenen, Pasteursvej 20, København V Denmark. Supported by Copenhagen music and art council in corporation with SKRÆP. INFO: http://www.dansescenen.dk/side.asp?side=2
CAMP 2010 : Visual Music festival at ZKM in Germany May.25 - 30, 2010 Live audiovisual performance & installation on May.28 & 29, at 22:00 at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe Germany INFO: www.camp-festival.de
Salon Bruit in Berlin June 4. 2010 at 23:00 A new live audiovisual performance with Denitsa Mineva(violin, objects) at Kastanienallee 77, Berlin Germany. INFO: http://salonbruit.blogspot.com
A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video
Event:
Thurs April 22 - 8pm
Issue Project Room in The Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street (corner 3rd Avenue) 3rd Floor Park Slope, Brooklyn 718 330-0313
This Month's A/V:
Set 1 - Giles Hendrix - Video Set 1 - Richard Lainhart - Music Set 2 - Kamran Sadeghi - A/V Set 3 - Bradford Reed - Music Set 3 - Ursula Scherrer - Video
This Month's Message:
{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
Experimental Electronic Music and Visual Arts Festival/ 21-24.04.2010/ La Farinera del Clot Barcelona
"The fifth annual festival of experimental electronic music and visual arts organized by the platform Störung will start next Wednesday 21st of April offering us, during four days, the performances of outstanding national and international artists of the electronic and experimental scene./ Störung Festival 5.0 features, besides the performances of the invited artists, a cycle of conferences, a permanent screening of audiovisual works in the exhibition room, and a thematic day on Friday 23rd of April titled 'Hydrophonia', dedicated exclusively to subaquatic sounds./ With this program the festival wants to offer the audience the chance of getting to know in detail different tendencies of the electronic music scene, continuing the work that the multidisciplinary platform Störung has been doing since 2006./ Störung's aim, in short, is to promote and support a variety of creative tendencies of the electronic music field, providing live performances, radio programs, and records, to enable the audience to hear and enjoy these musical and artistic tendencies." Source: http://www.storung.com/?section=festival5〈=en
Programme note: "Normally, when you present a piece, you specify your intentions. But in this case, it is the absence of intention that defines our performance. We are not hoping for anything in particular to take place since it is precisely the “whatever happens” that interests us—all the more so if it is beyond our will or our control. We can say that the performance will be comprised of certain elements. There will be music, both early (Frescobaldi, Dowland, Couperin) and contemporary (Jean-Luc Fafchamps, John Adams, Steve Reich, Maurice Ravel, Claude Ledoux, Collard-Neven). There will also be free improvisation, music that doesn’t yet exist but lives only in the realm of possibility. At the same time, there will be images, drawn and reworked, as well as photos that don’t tell a story, a sort of abstract impressionism. Lastly, there will be a painterfilmmaker and a pianist who (re)discovered each other and (re)connnected somewhere beyond time and space and who very much look forward to the unexpected possibilities of their visual and sonic interplay." See programme at:
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."
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.
Cimatics - Brussels International Festival for Live Audiovisual Art & VJing - invites all artists, creatives and producers to send their submissions for the next Cimatics festival.
Cimatics festival takes place from 20th - 29th November 2009 at various locations in the centre of Brussels.
onedotzero adventures in motion: now open for submissions!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 29 MAY 2009
"onedotzero_adventures in motion is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industry alike for being the world leader in audio-visual arts and entertainments at the forefront of a new experiential festival experience which combines music, film, play, live performance, interactivity, digital arts and culture. onedotzero_adventures in motion festival is now open to receive visually progressive moving image work for their 2009/2010 global touring festival. the festival premier takes place in london at BFI Southbank, 9-13 september 2009, followed by an extensive international tour which kicks off in buenos aires, 25-27 september 2009. "
DANCING WITH MATHEMATICA - PART OF THE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL
Music, generated in Mathematica, by composer Katarina Miljkovic; chereograhy by Dawn Kramer; video projections by Stephen Buck; performance by Dawn Kramer and Brian McCook.
Event at Cambridge Science Festival - Boston US
Dancing with Mathematica - The Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center - 26th April 2009
Dancing with Mathematica is a journey through complexity in movement, bady projection and sound. Music and choreography are structured on four classes of complexity, proposed by Stephen Wolfram A New Kind of Science.
While music develops by evolution of cellular automata, from simple to universally complex, choreography reflects on the nature of choice, questions the concept of self as a dolid, separate reality and looks at the body in relation to self, gener, transgender and aging.
The program is live performance of two pieces including movement, electronic sound and video. Music, generated in Mathematica, by composer Katarina Miljkovic; chereograhy by Dawn Kramer; video projections by Stephen Buck; performance by Dawn Kramer and Brian McCook.
Peter Donebauer - The Videokalos Colour Synthesiser. Performance by Peter Donebauer at Tate Britain. Video and Music Performers (VAMP) Friday 1 December 2006, 20.00-21.00
IQBIT has created the sound for a Audio Video live set with visuals by xx+xy visuals.
AV collaborative project by xx+xy visuals with IQBIT
"onedotzero_adventures in motion is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industry alike for being the world leader in audio-visual arts and entertainments at the forefront of a new experiential festival experience which combines music, film, play, live performance, interactivity, digital arts and culture.
