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My Research is ...VISUAL MUSIC
Maura McDonnell
Presentation prepared forHistory and Theory of Digital Arts
Core ModuleATRL Theatre, 20th February, 2012
DAH (Digital Arts and Humanities) PhD Candidate, Trinity College, Dublin
http://visualmusic.blogspot.comhttp://www.soundingvisual.com
http://soundingvisual.blogspot.com
Visual Music is
A visually artistic and musical approach to constructing abstract audiovisual videos
HOWEVER, visual music does not have a home› A traditional genre/art form that it can call
home It is not cinema, it is not music, it is not
painting 2O Februrary 2012 Prepared by Maura McDonnell
Visual Music – maverick
In contemporary practice, visual music can be experienced /seen /heard› Cinematic settings› Music Concert settings› Art Galleries› Events type settings – festivals, special event
It is: › Fixed media, interactive, generative, live, part
of performance ?:
› an art form or a method (way of doing art)2O Februrary 2012 Prepared by Maura McDonnell
More than side by side
Visual music is not just about putting a video beside/alongside a piece of music
A visual music work typically crafts the images TO THE music/sound design/sound effects.
In a way, visual music is the ultimate in music listening...
In another way, visual music is the ultimate artistic exploration of music in cinema – where music is first and leads the way
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Influences – there are several – here are some favourites
The visuals in a visual music work is the image that the music is played on.
1920s european avant-garde cinema› Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Walther
Ruttmann› Viking Eggeling “screen is the instrument
that the film is played on”
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COUNTERPOINT
Those that work with musical constructs are of most interest
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VIKING EGGELING Musical counterpoint became the
influence from which to construct elegant pictorial forms
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Watch Symphonie Diagonale by Viking Eggelingon youtube
This version has no soundtrack PHEW!!!
http://youtu.be/uc5qPMSVixQ
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Paul Klee - Painting
The concept and construct of counterpoint has been adapted to his painting compositions
Paul Klee - Ancient Sound - 1926
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Jaroslaw Kapuscinski
Contemporary intermedia artist who explores in its most elegant and simple forms ideas about counterpoint between image and music
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Watch on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/25529978
Musical constructs
Musical constructs in my earlier works – concept of musical harmony in image and sound
However, increasingly interested in acousmatic music and music concrete and electroacoustic music composition› Music sources are hidden› New sounds revealed through manipulation
I see similar analogies in visuals that I explored in recent work
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SILK CHROMA
visuals: maura mcdonnellmusic: linda buckley
Concept: dermot furlongSurround sound version:Gavin Kearney
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http://vimeo.com/28545002