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Bärbel Neubauer 

(*1959) was born in Austria, studied film and stage design in Vienna at the Academy of Arts, diploma in 1983. She made more than 40 animation films and experimental films since 1980 and is composing music and filmmusic since 1991.

Bärbel Neubauer has been working with 35mm cinema films, 70mm IMAX cinema films and Quicktime movies, 70mm IMAX film, and life action.

Her animation films of the 90s are mostly abstract on film works, that she painted stamped and scratched on 35mm film stock.

From 2000 on she worked on digital "motion painting in image and sound", creating among others Flockenspiel I-IV in different techniques. In 2005 she received the "Women's Cultural Award for Film and TV" from the country Carinthia/ Austria for it.

Her newest works are Airwaves, Fractal Cycles, and Morphs of Pegasus.

Her films ran at numerous international animation and film festivals, and received international recognition.

She teaches workshops and courses at colleges and universities in Europe and the US.

 

Source: spirals & morphs

 

 

Neubauer composes and performs her own music: something unique in the annals of absolute film (except, perhaps for some of the middle Jordan Belson films). She combines a mixture of rhythmic elements that she can prerecord on electronic samples with live performance on clarinet and other instruments. These compositions have a very personal sound, casual and relaxed, and well-fitted to the mood profile of the visual imagery.

(William Moritz "The Film Strip Tells All" in ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.6 - September 1998)

 

Source: Animation World Network

 

 

Bärbel Neubauer, female

Reading

Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 (2005) traces the history of a revolutionary idea: that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. Over the past one hundred years some of the most adventurous modern and contemporary artists have explored unorthodox means to invent a kinetic, non-representational art modeled upon pure instrumental music. (Amazon)

Optical Poetry (2004) by Dr. William Moritz is the long-awaited, definitive biography of Oskar Fischinger. The result of over 30 years of research on this visionary abstract filmmaker and painter. In addition to Moritz's comprehensive biography, it includes numerous photographs in colour and black and white (many never before published), statements by Oskar Fischinger about his films, a newly created extensive filmography, and a selected bibliography. (John Libbey Publishing)

Sons et Lumières (2004) – A History of Sound in the Art of the 20th Century (in French) by Marcella Lista and Sophie Duplaix published by the Centre Pompidou for the excellent Paris exhibition in September 2004 until January 2005.


Curated by the Pompidou’s Sophie Duplaix with the Louvre’s Marcella Lista, the show required a good three or four hours to absorb, with its bombardment of sensory and intellectual input, including painting, sound sculpture, sound/light automata, film and video, and room-size installations. (Frieze Magazine)

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v3 / G.S.I.L.XXIX (2004) by video artist LIA shows a cut of the live audio visual performances of LIA and the Portuguese electronic band, @c, whereby both the image and the sound layer are improvised. As with the visuals, the music is also mostly digital. Muted rhythm patterns are steadily deconstructed, so that they sound increasingly like freejazz. (Lia)

FLOAT (2011) by Susi Sie is a short film, that tells the story of our lives in an abstract and philosophical manner; birth and death, desire and fear, unique moments and the eternal cycle of things. All of its scenes were filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II, 100mm macro, and have been edited with no additional computer animation and effects.

The musical score, entitled Component 1, was composed by Thomas Schüssler, who sees himself not only as a musician, but also as a scientist and developer of advertising. (Susi Sie)

Jack Ox (*1948) has devoted herself to giving visual form to music. Using a system as fascinating as it is Byzantine, Ox has worked her way through painted performances of music as diverse as Gregorian chant, Bach, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bruckner. (Artforum)

Stephanie Maxwell is a California-born filmmaker who practices a unique form of experimental filmmaking art. Her techniques include direct on film painting and etching, object animation, motion painting, copier techniques, live action manipulation, and much more. Her works blend the hands-on approach to animation with digital processes in very creative ways. (Stephanie Maxwell)

Lia is an Austrian artist and one of the early pioneers of Software and Net Art. She has been creating digital art, installations and sound works since 1995. Her Internet works combine various traditions of drawing and painting with the aesthetic of digital images and algorithms. They are characterized by a minimalist quality, and by an affinity with conceptual art. (Lia)