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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Visual music"”.
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Immersive visual music: how contemporary visual music practices have evolved and how immersive technologies can be employed to compose visual music works
This thesis explores contemporary visual music and its evolution. It addresses recent trends and explores audio-visual relationships, practices, and aesthetics. Visual music has a long tradition of negating representational elements in relation to sound, image, and space, to the degree that the …
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Interpreting Electroacoustic Audio-visual Music
… process of composition for electroacoustic audio-visual music. These are fixed media works in which sound and image materials are accessed, generated, explored and configured in creation of a musically informed audio-visual expression. Within the process of composition, the composer must decide …
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Composing Holochoric Visual Music: Interdisciplinary Matrices
… lineage originating in the days of silent films, visual music, in its current incarnation, is a relatively recent phenomenon when compared to an historically broad field of creative expression. Today it is a time-based audio/visual territory explored and mined by a handful of visual and musical …
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Composing visual music: human traces, from an animator’s perspective
… between phenomenological experiences and visual music. Composers of visual music have long sought to create a new artform in which the visible and audible are utterly synthesised. Our different perceptions of the visual and the audible, combined with the lack of a ubiquitous, uniform …
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Multichannel audiovisual composition using audiovisual sampling, synchronous granular synthesis andpseudorandom number generator algorithms
… employed a range of techniques to create audio visual compositions. From the hand-painted abstract visual music animations by Futuristartists Arnaldo Ginna and Bruno Corra from 1910 to contemporary digital creations based on intricate mathematical algorithms, artists have explored the complex …
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Towards an Asynchronous Cinema: how can the asynchronous use of sound in artists' moving image underpin the creation of dialectic tension between the audio, the visual and the audience?
… examines selected practice-based audio-visual works made by the author over a ten-year period, placing them in a critical context. Central to the publications, and the focus of the thesis, is an exploration of the role of sound in the creation of dialectic tension between the audio, the …
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Liberation of the Senses: An Exploration of Sound-color Synesthesia in the Music of Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen
… color to sound has long been a part of the music compositional lexicon. Performers, composers, and scholars have long relied upon descriptive vocabulary usually reserved for the visual arts. Those who regularly use colors as aspects of critical terminology do so to convey a desired effect, …
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Cineplastick: Synthetic Materials in the Films of Mary Ellen Bute, Jim Davis and Jeff Keen
In this thesis I engage with the work of experimental filmmakers for whom plastic was an indispensable profilmic medium. I trace the development of three careers against the backdrop of the cultural history of synthetic materials, which proliferated in the middle decades of the twentieth century. …