Definition of Visual Music

From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 05:04:13 PDT


That definition would appear to exclude visual music works that contain no sound however! :)

love

Freya

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Leo Cardoso <email suppressed> wrote:

> From: Leo Cardoso <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Vienna shows
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 10:59 AM
> It seems to me that, in its broadest
> sense, visual music is a audiovisual work that is
>
> (1) created by using some kind of compositional link
> between aural and visual events - thus exploring the
> synesthetic field
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> (2) performed as something that integrates aural/visual
> gestures
> (3) perceived as something that integrates aural/visual
> gestures
>
> Visual music has also been used in the last decades to mean
> an audiovisual work associated with artists such as Oskar
> Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, John Whitney, and Larry Cuba.
> It usually uses 'abstract' visual forms and various
> music genres (including Western Classical music and Indian
> Classical music). It is this specific artistic field that
> I'm most interested in.
>
>
> Please let me know if you think visual music is actually
> something else, or if you have contancts (or any info) that
> might be useful for my research.
>
> Best,
>
> Leo
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:24 PM,
> Simonetta <email suppressed>
> wrote:
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> I was going to ask the same
> question. What do you mean by "visual music?" I am
> personally interested in the film-music dialectic and I also
> know other graduate students involved in this kind of work.
> More specifics would be helpful to have a better sense of
> what you are looking for.
>
>
> Thanks,Simonetta
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:05 PM,
> Myron Ort <email suppressed>
> wrote:
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> What is the definition of "visual music"?
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> Myron Ort
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> On Apr 26, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Leonardo Cardoso wrote:
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> Dear frameworkers,
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>
>
> I'm a graduate student in ethnomusicology, and would
> like to get in touch with people interested in visual
> music.
>
> My research project focuses on the visual music scene in
> LA, and I'm expecting to talk with as many people as I
> can (not only from US) as a means to consider different
> perspectives on visual music.
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> I'm planning to spend this summer in LA to attend
> performances and do some fieldwork there.
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> I'd appreciate any suggestion of places to visit,
> people to talk with, and any other valuable info related
> with visual music.
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>
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> Thank you!
>
>
>
> Leo Cardoso
>
> Graduate student
>
> Butler School of Music
>
> University of Texas at Austin
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> tel. (512) 216-8205
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> Leo Cardoso
> Graduate student
> Butler School of Music
> University of Texas at Austin
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