From: Leo Cardoso (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 01:44:41 PDT
Hi Paul,
thank you for your interest in talking about visual music.
I'm certainly into your work as teacher and artist, so I hope we can keep in
contact.
Do you have any material online or that you can send me?
Best,
Leo
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM, JEFFREY PAULL <email suppressed> wrote:
> Good morning, Leo -
>
> This email comes to you from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
> I read of your interest in visual music in the FrameWorks email.
> By way of introduction to my own “visual music” work, I'll mention aspects
> of my teaching, and my work as a visual artist.
> If there is something of possible use to you, email me back.
>
> VISUAL MUSIC AS A TEACHER
> 1. I taught film production for over 30 years emphasizing the interplay of
> the musical-choreographic, and the storytelling
> aspects of cinema. Assignments alternated between non-story exercises
> that dealt with music-choreographic sensibility, and
> storytelling exercises that required attention to the
> music-choreographic aspects of the images and actions that told the story.
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> It seems to have been helpful to many of the students
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> Our Community College students expected just job-training schooling.
> And yet, with Canada's population being about 10% of the USA's, past
> students have been awarded over $3,000,000.00
> in Arts grants to make non-commercial movies that are at home in
> festivals and museum showings.
> They have also received over 50 Canadian film industry awards.
> In addition to the various film maker poet-novelist-criticism types,
> nine have become full time film-photography artists and university art
> school professors.
> I like to think that the "visual music" emphasis expanded their
> sensitivity and understanding of how good movies can work.
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> VISUAL MUSIC AS A VISUAL ARTIST
> 2. A number of years ago, (before PCs and the digital realms), I was a
> visual artist with a group of five musicians.
> Visually, we used an array of 16 projectors - cine and stills - on a
> 30' tryptych screen above the musicians.
> Sometimes the musicians used theimprovised mix of images as a score to
> play off of, sometimes we modulated
> our images to express visually what the musicians were coming up with.
> Our California connections:
> We commissioned music by California composers David Rosenboom and Mort
> Subotnik, and performed at 1750 Arch street
> Center for New Music & Audio Technologies, (Berkeley), and the L.A.
> Museum of Art.
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> No need to answer this if what I've described isn't what you're after.
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> Jeffrey Paull, email suppressed 416 925 5468
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> > Leo Cardoso
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> > Graduate student
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> > Butler School of Music
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> > University of Texas at Austin
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> > tel. (512) 216-8205
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> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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-- Leo Cardoso Graduate student Butler School of Music University of Texas at Austin email suppressed tel. (512) 216-8205 http://leocardoso.org/ __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.