Visual Music

Sonic Pixels - An Essay on Music and Motion in Three Parts

2008-05-20T13:33:00.005+01:00

Essay Part Three by Mark Webster

Excellent Essay, also worth checking out are his two other essays
Part 1 - Colour is the keyboard and
Part 2 - Rhythm in Motion

Noisefold - Ring Matrix

2008-05-20T10:58:00.001+01:00

Live 3D animation from Performance by NoiseFold an interactive visual music and noise group.

Ned Resnikoff - Illustrated, music movies

2008-03-13T22:43:00.006+01:00

frame from Erev Shel Shoshanim
youtube video Erev Shel Shoshanim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOPB2qptdw

Ned Resnikoff - Illustrated, music movies

Ned Resnikoff creates incredible illustrated music movies with his own software program Vizzy. The images for the movies are mathematical representations of audio data. Check out his movies on his website and on youtube.
Ned is a musician who has combined his interests in music and mathematics by applying wavelet filters to audio analysis. He works on software tools to make sound and music something we can see, understand, and modify in new ways.

More information and contact details and video clips on his website
Website: http://nedwaves.com/

You Tube Videos of the following recent movies:
Gymnopedies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3QR10EtyME
Parade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcK-D_U9e4

Embeded You Tube Video: Erev Shel Shoshanim

Experimental Music Film - Note Bank

2008-01-18T01:18:00.001+01:00

"Many people were filmed in St Michael's church in Byker Newcastle, indidivudally, over the course of a day, playing single notes on various insruments to create a note bank that andy jackson the composer used to create the score that you see and hear. Most of the participants had no previous musical expereince. Antnhec, Anton hecht bought it all together, with Richard Lawson on camera. The work was produced by Mathew Lennon for Newcastle City Council as part of the Off-Centre project. The main body of people came from the community group Aspire"

Experimental Music and Video Resource

2007-09-24T10:24:00.000+01:00

Excellent experimental Music and Video Resource run by Spenayoung.

http://newmusicresource.blogspot.com/

The Light Bead Curtain

2007-09-13T09:12:00.001+01:00

"description
The Light Bead Curtain is an interactive musical installation that can be freely played by person's touch. The installation takes the form of a beaded curtain; strings of simple clear beads. Each bead, on a users touch, lights itself and emits a unique sound. People play with the curtain by weaving their hands through it, touching it with their faces, and moving through it with their body. An environment of light and sound is created when people engage with the curtain. "
http://amaret.net/ami/?p=lightbead&y=2005#desc

Dissociative Fugue video - Stretta

2007-07-25T16:28:00.000+01:00

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

Transmediale 08 - Call for Works

2007-07-25T08:38:00.000+01:00

http://www.transmediale.de/site/competition+M54a708de802.html

Limiteazero - Laptop Orchestra

2007-07-25T08:06:00.000+01:00

laptop_orchestra is an interactive synaesthetic instrument, designed for performances of audio visual compositions in real time.

The space conformation of the fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows, brings back to the formation of an orchestral group.

http://limiteazero.net/l_o/index.html

Limiteazero is an architecture, media design and media art studio based in Milan, Italy, founded in 1998 by Paolo Rigamonti and Silvio Mondino.

"Limiteazero’s areas of expertise include: installations design, responsive environment design, crossmedia design for retail, media in architecture and public space, interaction design.
The studio works both on independent research projects and commissioned installations, for clients like Toshiba, BlackBerry, Alberto Aspesi, Nice, Siemens, Antonio Citterio & Partners." Source

Database of Virtual Art

2007-07-25T06:37:00.000+01:00

"The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art."

HEAD, SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION & ARTIST NETWORK
Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau

http://www.virtualart.at/common/recentDocument.do

Octopulse

2007-07-13T17:39:00.000+01:00

Octopulse

"The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means. The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesiser to convert into cacophonous noises."

http://www.shootthestylist.net/octo/index.htm

Jordan Belson - Five Essential Films

2007-06-28T14:00:00.000+01:00

Center for Visual Music announces a new DVD release:

Jordan Belson - Five Essential Films

The DVD includes three classic films:
Allures (1961)
Samadhi (1967)
Light (1973)
A never-before released film: Fountain of Dreams (1984), and
Belson's latest film, Epilogue (2005)

Jordan Belson is one of the greatest artists of visual music. Belson creates lush vibrant experiences of exquisite color and dynamic abstract phenomena evoking sacred celestial experiences. ( William Moritz)

Curated by Jordan Belson, Produced by Center for Visual Music
NTSC, Region-Free, SD, 4:3, TRT approx 45 minutes
$25 private home use, $150 institutions (does not include public performance rights)
June 2007 release

Purchase at: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/JBDVD.htm

Belson's bio, bibliography, filmography, plus information re the films on the disc:
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson

INTERAKT STUDIO - Božidar Svetek

2007-06-04T12:22:00.000+01:00

Božidar Svetek,
"a private researcher and video artist, has since 1979 been exclusively concentrating on the connection of music, painting and technics, i.e., the linking of sound and picture. With the onset of modern computer technology, he transfers such »classic« experience into a new medium. In 1996 he took out a patent for a procedure of visualizing a sound event, so that by the help of a new instrument, he »plays« the colour contents of each music work. The new instrument offers a new post-productive expressive form to music, which is accessible to every individual. What is achieved by this is a film quality that opens new concepts and aesthetic extensions united in two human immanences, in a united duration frame of time and space. All the so far accomplished promotions of the connection of technics, music and fine arts, prepared at home and abroad, have brought him several prizes and distinguished awards." (source from website - link below)
http://www.si21.com/interakt/

Splitska 6,
SI-1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenija
tel.: +386 (0) 1 283 30 24,
fax.: +386 (0) 1 283 30 24
e-Mail: interakt@si21.com

VISUAL MUSIC,
Pat. for protokol for visual ton
aplication
colorspectat

Soundwaves - Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields, London

2007-06-01T11:58:00.000+01:00

Soundwaves - A collaboration between kinetica museum and cybersonica.
18th May - 29th June 2007
London

http://www.kinetica-museum.org/new_site/

AWN - Visual Music Article - Jean Detheux

2007-06-01T00:26:00.000+01:00

Visual Music Marathon: Musical Fine Art Animation Benchmark by Jean Detheux
Excellent article by Jean Detheux, May 24th, 2007 discussing the Visual Music Marathon Event held on April 28th, 2007 in Boston. 13 pages of excellent comments and discussion, with a selection of videoclips from the event online, illustrated with the article.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3295&page=1

book+dvd - "MuVi. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music"

2007-05-11T16:33:00.000+01:00

Dina Riccò & Maria José de Cordoba (edited by),
"MuVi. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music"
Edizioni Poli.design, Milano, 2007 [book+DVD]

MuVi, an acronym for Musica Visiva (“Visual Music”), an event of the Second
International Conference "Synaesthesia: Science & Art" (from April 28th to
May 1st 2007, Granada, Spain), is a collection of kinetic visual,
audio-visual or interactive works that spring from music by artists,
musicians, designers and performers. This catalogue collects the works of
the 23 participants that answered the call for kinetic works. The attached
DVD includes 40 movies, for a 150 minute video content.

The book is for sale here:
http://www.hoepli.it/titoli.asp?editore=POLI.+DESIGN

Dina Riccò
Politecnico di Milano - Facoltà del Design
Dipartimento INDACO
via Durando 38/a - 20158 Milano - ITALY
http://www.sinestesie.it

VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON EVENT - Boston

2007-04-29T16:05:00.001+01:00

The Visual Music Marathon Event took place yesterday, 28 April 2007 at the Egan Research Center, 120 Forsyth Street, Northeastern University, MA 02115 , Boston. What an amazing show of incredibly beautiful and stunning visuals and music. Organised by Dennis Miller.

This was an event worth seeing!!! - more here soon. Meanwhile, previews of some of the work that was shown is online at: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html

Heart Chamber Orchestra - audiovisual performance

2007-02-03T14:31:00.000+01:00

"The Heart Chamber Orchestra - HCO - is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo TERMINALBEACH. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.HCO forms a structure where music literally "comes from the heart".
"the musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. a computer monitors & analyzes the state of these 12 hearts in real time. the acquired information is used to compose a musical score with the aid of computer software. it is a living score dependent on the state of the hearts."

http://www.heartchamberorchestra.org/project.html

Moonlight - Interactive Visualization of Beethoven's No.14

2007-02-03T14:15:00.000+01:00

http://levitated.net/exhibit/darkside/

Moonlight is an interactive installation of the visualization of the first movement of Beethoven's No.14 Sonata.

ColorOfMySound.com

2007-02-03T14:09:00.000+01:00

http://www.colorofmysound.com/

Assign colors to songs at the free music promotion community, ColorOfMySound.com

"Synaesthesia is the mixing of the senses. Those affected by it hear colors, see sounds, and taste tactile sensations. When the two senses involved are sound and color, this phenomenon is no longer limited to synaesthetes: anyone, given a sound and time for contemplation, can ascribe color to that sound. Often, these connections between sound and color will overlap from person to person.
Color Of My Sound is an informal experiment to test that hypothesis. First, choose a sound category. Then, after listening, choose the color to which you are most strongly drawn. Give us your thoughts. Then, you can see how others voted for that particular sound. "

Wolfram Tones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music

2007-02-03T13:24:00.000+01:00

http://tones.wolfram.com/

"WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. "
This is really fun to play with....!!! Amazing composition controls in terms of a huge variety of musical scales

Transfer of Music into a Graphic Image

2007-02-03T13:17:00.000+01:00

http://creativelab.kiev.ua/eng/theory/graphics/graphics_eng.htm

Interesinting work on transforming music intervals into a graphic image. Other project is the correspondence of sound to colour

Musical Graph Theory

2007-02-03T12:09:00.000+01:00

http://turbulence.org/Works/graphtheory/

Graph Theory enables you to navigate among 61 short, looping musical gragments to explore a composition for solo violin.
Jason Freeman - concept, music programming
Patricia Reed - design
Maja Ceran - violin

CTM2007: Illuminations 1.1

2007-02-03T11:36:00.000+01:00

http://unlekker.net/proj/illuminCTM2007/

"Realtime projection, still images for print. Java + Processing w/ OpenGL. "

Marius Watz 2007

Moditifed Toy Orchestra

2007-01-23T14:25:00.000+01:00

http://www.warmcircuit.com/web/artist.php?artist_id=1

Modified Toy Orchestra makes music from abandoned toys. They are a collection of abandoned and reconstructed Childrens electronic toys, conducted by a selection of musicians.

See their myspace website: