Audio.Visual: Book launch and free screening
London no.w.here
Saturday 17 October 2009, at 8pm
Cornelia and Holger Lund will present their publication "Audio.Visual", exploring the subject of visual music and the interplay of cutting-edge media. The publication is a result of the project “Visual Music” (2007-08), conceived by the media art gallery "fluctuating images" in Germany. The book and DVD includes what is happening in new media, from the experimental sector to the club scene. The texts and illustrations are intended to introduce visual music from a great many angles, including the perspectives of musicians, artists, curators, festival directors and software developers.
This free launch event is accompanied by a screening of selected works by Mary Ellen Bute, Boulez Republic Grand Ensemble, Pfadfinderei/Modeselektor, Paul Mumford, Philipp Geist, Bruce McClure and others.
For more information on the project see www.fluctuating-images.de
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no.w.here
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Nearest Tube / Train: Bethnal Green
Free admission on a first come, first served basis.
Audio•Visual: On Visual Music and Related Media
The publication "Audio.Visual" is divided into two sections: the first deals with the academic discussion on the subject of visual music; the second introduces contemporary paradigms of audio-visual praxis in brief presentations and contextualises them. Apart from being a guide in the historical sense, this new volume provides theoretical approaches to understanding and making visual music. The subject is approached from the fringe (music video, Expanded Cinema, games, etc.) so that the phenomenon can, on the one hand, be more accurately defined via interfaces with other forms of audio-visual production and, on the other, through an attempt at distinguishing it from them. Drawing heavily on examples, the individual essays discuss various aspects of visual music.
Contemporary approaches to producing and handling visual music are presented in brief essays that abound with examples. The texts and illustrations are intended to introduce visual music from a great many angles, including the perspectives of musicians, artists, curators, festival directors and software developers, and provide insights into what is currently going on both in the experimental sector and at clubs.
The approaches and results presented in the book can be verified and checked with the accompanying DVD that features earlier and current examples of visual music. The DVD shows mainly material from live performances that is often extremely hard to find, be it from Expanded Cinema or performances by VJs and musicians. Visual music and the interplay of cutting-edge media. An exciting book on what is going on right now in the new media: from the experimental sector to the club scene.