Wednesday, November 9, 2011

20 Hz - Semiconductor Video

This piece is quite incredible in the patterns and sense of depth and dimension.  It is really beautiful.  Semiconductors film 200 Nanowebbers was really brilliant too, but this new work form 2011, is equally as good.  Great work semiconductor

20 Hz - A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
'05.00 minutes / HD / 2011
HD single channel and HD 3D single channel
.
A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.'
"20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception,"
Webpage about 20Hz: -
http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/20Hz/20Hz.htm

View on Vimeo

20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo.


Saturday, November 5, 2011

Tony Brooks Towards New Multisensory Spaces and Environments

Four Senses Concert, 2002

This important concert that took place in 2002 in the Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand.  The four senses concert were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks (UK).

website: link


"The ‘Four Senses’ 1999, 2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences.
The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of breathing in, and of visualizing music.



Tony Brooks utilised sensors, software and projectors to create an interactive system capturing movement from the orchestra and translating it into painting with coloured light. In this way the orchestra conductor was able to “paint” the scene through his gestures within an interactive space. Similarly orchestra members, dancers and a special signing choir for the deaf images were blended into the backdrop in real-time such that their velocity of movement affected the color of image generation and collage composition.
Raewyn Turner interpreted the sound to colour and smell using the correspondences that she made between sound/silence and light/dark. The translations involved intuitive drawing, charts, measurements, referral to the seasonal time of harvest of aromatic plants, and an equation which produces a selection of plants from which to choose smell pitch.

The performances were an improvisation and a real - time translation of sound and the gestures of making that sound, into light and colour, and multiple layers of smell. The light collage thus created was a play of interaction between live video feeds and sensors, and coloured light pre-programmed to an interpretation of sound, each affecting the other in a dynamic visual loop. "

Source: Link to more information and where you can download media files

Article


Youtube Excerpt


Friday, October 21, 2011

Silk Chroma - Honouring Prize - Visual Music Award

Silk Chroma a visual music piece that I created in collaboration with the Irish Composer Linda Buckley and closely worked also with Dermot Furlong and Gavin Kearney at the end of 2010 has won an honouring prize at the forthcoming Visual Music Award 2011. I am totally delighted!


Visit website - Visual Music Award 2011

Visual Music Award @ Cocoon Club, Frankfurt Germany
Photographs of the event have been put up by the organisers on their facebook page.
Some photographs of Silk Chroma have been put on this page...what a stunning venue the Cocoon Club.



Visual Music Award Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/VisualMusicAward

Silk Chroma can be seen on vimeo


Silk Chroma from Silk Chroma on Vimeo.

Silk Chroma - the silent version is also showing at the Expanded Abstraction Exhibition, LACMA Museum's Stark Bar,  Los Angeles as part of a curated show by the Center for Visual Music, this exhibition will continue until late January 2012 http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm
Silk Chroma is also being shown at the forthcoming Seeing Sound Symposium at Bath Spa University, Bath Spa, UK http://www.seeingsound.co.uk/
This weekend (22nd October 2011) Silk Chroma is starting the Sonic Pop Up concert as part of Dublin Contemporary. http://www.dublincontemporary.com/home/news/events_this_week1




Wednesday, October 12, 2011

FOLDS video installation - Robert Seidal

FOLDS
Robert Seidel
Lindenau Museum, Altenburg / Germany
18.6.ˆ14.8.2011



FOLDS is a 2-channel video installation with projections on 19th century plaster casts of Kladeos, Kephissos,
Belvedere Torso, Seer and the Three Goddesses from the Bernhard August von Lindenau Collection.
It connects to the fragmentary plaster casts, makes them flow with bygone colors, clothes them and wakes
them for a moment then to be stored as into the sediment of oblivion.

Documentation of the installation
Vimeo
// http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds 
Youtube // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmg3L0ai5Uo 
Web // http://www.robertseidel.com/folds.225.0.html
Catalog // http://www.lindenau-museum.de/index.php?id=96
PR // http://robertseidel.com/folds_lindenau-museum_robert-seidel.pdf 



Websites:

Studio Robert Seidel
http://www.robertseidel.com
Robert Seidel Vimeo Channel
http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds

View Folds Documentation on Vimeo

folds | installation documentation | lindenau museum altenburg, germany | robert seidel | 2011 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Friday, September 2, 2011

Yan Breuleux - Experimental Animation Video - Immersion

Yan Breuleux's beautiful works are really worth checking out. Based in Montreal, both teaching in the faculty of Music at the University of Montreal and completing a Phd, he has accumulated a large portfolio of works that are documented clearly on his website.
Website: http://www.ybx.ca/


Yan Breuleux's animations are quite beautiful and some of their presentations and installations are quite breathtaking. He collaborates with musicians and composers and creates pieces for multi-screen, panoramic and hemispheric presentations. He is interested in the influence of architecture in audio visual performance and some of these projects are incredible in their scale and drama. An example project has been documented on flickr.
"En préparation de la diffusion de La Tempête pour écran vertical.
Une Nuit en Galilée
spectacles Samedi 23 Juillet à 20:00"
Flickr link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yanbreuleux/sets/72157627253334252/with/5963100991/

PURFORM

Yan Breuleux also collaborates with composer Alain Thibault as the duo PURFORM to create Immersion Video-Music
http://www.purform.com/


Vimeo Channel

http://www.vimeo.com/purform/videos

Example Project highlighted in this blog post

White Box

"A/V performance for a tryptic of HD video screens and quadraphonic audio.
White Box is a work based on a new way of generating A/V compositions in real time and is a new piece in a cycle that began in 2003 with Black Box. This cycle metaphorically transposes, into sound and images, concepts from systems theory related to black, white and grey boxes.
Visuals: Yan Breuleux
Music: Alain Thibault
Captation video: Christian Pomerleau: gridspace.ca"
Source: http://www.vimeo.com/21591024

PREVIEW White Box

WHITE BOX | PREVIEW from Purform on Vimeo.


Thursday, August 18, 2011

Jane Cassidy - Square Ball Insallation

Jane Cassidy's new visual music piece - Square Ball is an installation piece and its inaugural presentation took place in Dublin, in August 2011 as part of the Glitch Festival 2011 organised by MART.

This was a really beautiful and clever installation that really is something that needs to be seen and sensed, as an audience member one has to face the projector as the most amazing layers of imagery and patterns unfold with great connections to the music.

Video excerpt online courtesy of Red Rua



Visit Jane's Blog
http://janecassidy.net/