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Versum: Go 

(2010) 

is created in a realtime three-dimensional audiovisual composition tool programmed by Tarik Barri. It forces both the audience and the composer to look at the music and listen to the visuals.

"Within Versum one can undertake three dimensional journeys in virtual space, comparable to the way one can move through space in a first person shooter game. These journeys take place in both visual and sonic space. Hence these journeys result in musical compositions, as the sound depends on the direction and the speed with which one travels. Basically Versum offers the possibility of travelling past threedimensional sound-emitting objects, called Entities, which produce all types of sounds which are either continuous or rythmical and pulsating. As you approach objects you hear them become louder, and if you travel further you will slowly hear it fade away, while the other objects that you travel towards become louder. Entities which are to the right of the camera will be heard from the right and those that are above or behind the camera will be heard from above or behind, if enough speakers are used and placed in the right positions. All the aspects of this journey can be created and modified in realtime: both the path of the journey and the entities which the virtual camera meets during its travels can be changed according to the whishes of the composer. Go is my second composition made in Versum."

 

Source: Tarik Barri's website

 

 

Versum: Go, stripes, real time, software, Video Clip, Interactive, Code

Reading

Sonic Graphics/Seeing Sound (2000) by Matt Woolman presents exemplary work from studios around the world in three sections: Notation analyses the use of sign and symbol systems in creating identity and branding for music artists, recording projects and performances; Material considers how products can package the intrinsic nature of the music they contain; and Atmosphere looks at how space and multidimensional environmeaants can be used to visualize sound. A reference section includes studio websites and a glossary. (Thames & Hudson)

Audiovisuology: See this sound (2010) - An Interdisciplinary Compendium of Audiovisual Culture. This all-embracing compendium brings together texts on various art forms in which the relationship between sound and image plays a significant role and the techniques used in linking the two. The entire spectrum of audiovisual art and phenomena is presented in 35 dictionary entries. (Cornerhouse)

Computer Music Journal: Visual Music (2005) - The articles in this issue are all devoted to the topic of Visual Music: audiovisual creations in which the artist strives to endow the video component with formal and abstract qualities that mimic those of musical composition. (Computer Music Journal)

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Karl Kliem (*1969) studied at the well-known Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Art and Design) in Offenbach. He developed real-time audio and visual systems and has designed the most diverse projects in the fields of multi-media, web design, and TV design, as well as music and audio production for films and interactive installations. Karl Kliem is a founding member of Involving-Systems (1994) and MESO (1997). (Dienststelle)

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