Resonance

(2011)

is a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers and studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.

Animators and Audio Designers were paired up at the beginning of the project and were given the guidelines to create a piece between 12 and 20 seconds and in HD quality, the rest was up to them.

The film premiered at Barcelona OFFF2011.

Contributors:

SEE || Displace Studios and MoveMakeShake | Esteban Diacono | Heerko Groefsema | Jean-Paul Frenay | Jr.canest | KORB | Kultnation | Mate Steinforth | Matthias Müller | Momentary People | MRK | Murat Pak | Onur Senturk | Physalia studio | Polynoid | Spatial Harmonics Group | SR Partners | Thiago Maia | Tom Waterhouse | Tronic Studio

HEAR || Audionerve | Combustion | CypherAudio | David Kamp | Echolab | Hecq | Michael Fakesch | Mutant Jukebox | Radium Audio | Box Of Toys Audio | Studio Takt | World Gang

Source: Resonance website

Resonance, pop, liquid, kugeln, landscape, design, Video Art

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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)

Eye 76 (2010) is Eye's first-ever special issue on the dynamic and continually inspiring sector of design for music. Designers are in a privileged position to add visual drama to music; to make it more understandable and enjoyable; to communicate the intangible essence of vibrating air molecules into the worlds of words, images and moving graphics. Design can make music look good, but when they really work together you have magic. (Eye magazine)

Notations 21 (2009) by Theresa Sauer features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. Notations 21 is a celebration of innovations in musical notation, employing an appreciative aesthetic for both the aural and visual beauty of these creations. The musical scores in this edition were created by composers whose creativity could not be confined by the staff and clef of traditional western notation, but whose musical language can communicate with the contemporary audience in a uniquely powerful way. (Notations 21 Project)

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Rimantas Lukavicius (KORB) (*1983) is a Lithuanian CGI director. He started to experiment with motion graphics in 2001 and studied Photo/Media in Vilnius Art Academy. His short film Ku Ku won the Best Animated Short film at the 5th KaraFilm Festival. In 2005 Rimantas Lukavicius founded KORB to integrate visual effects, motion design, live action and mixed media. The Vilnius based company works for worldwide brands. (KORB)

Mate Steinforth (*1977) is a German designer and director. Under his VJ alias of mateuniverse, he has been touring Europe. His visual style as a VJ has been described as deconstructionist abstract, with three-dimensional objects creating impressing effects of space and depth. His understanding of the art is deeply rooted in the attempt to be able to immediately respond visually to any given auditive and emotional situation. (Mate Steinforth)

Onur Senturk studied traditional painting and figure drawing followed by a traditional animation degree as his BFA. He took part in several international and national collaborative exhibitions with works in both print and time-based media. Onur Senturk designed and animated Triangle which is awarded twice by Vimeo as best motion graphics and Nokta. which received honorary mention from Ars Electronica in Computer Animation/ Film /VFX category. He has been featured in many national and international magazines, newspapers, and events. (Onur Senturk)

Michael Fakesch feat. Taprikk Sweezee: Blackbird (2009) by Hamburg-based creative shop Giraffentoast created the surreal music promo for the first single called Blackbird. (stash)

Michael Fakesch: Crest (2008) - Visual Kitchen's contribution to Michael Fakesch's vidos project. It is one of five angles they have made for the relatively short track Crest. The DVD, selfpublished in collaboration with fluctuating images. (Visual Kitchen on Vimeo)

Michael Fakesch: Don't stop (2007) by Tina Frank was created as part of Michael Fakesch's (ex Funkstörung) project Vidos, a video anthology inspired by his latest album Dos. Don't stop shows non-stop rotations and movements, a simple translation of the title. While the music's speed changes from slow to fast like chewing gum so does the image. (Tina Frank)

Futures (2006) by Robert Seidel shows crushed things, completely abstracted… finding together and building up to something we all have seen before… Like our true wishes and desires they shape over time and get clearer… followed by the next longing… Innuendos, artifacts and the rough synchronisation add subtle emotions to the uncertain process that build the morbid tableaux of all possible futures… (Robert Seidel)

BOOM-Box (2008) by 1024 architecture is designed as an oversized Ghetto Blaster where a DJ stage takes the place of the tape recorder. It can work for any outdoor event: the Boom-box is huge, luminous, noisy and playful. Its big scale conceals a great work on details. Everything has been custom-made for the show, from the 16 x 8m scaffolding structure, to the visuals, which represent music items, such as the ghetto-blaster, the DJ record decks, sound level displays. Architectural visuals give a depth to the stage ; even the geographical position of the party can be displayed. (1024 architecture)

Scott Pagano creates moving image content utilizing shards of architecture, disfunction, and futurism. With influences ranging from minimal painting to cinema, his work offers a re-envisioned perspective on the graphic stratas that saturate our visual perception. His meticulously constructed abstract artworks push the boundaries of audio-visual composition and process using a dynamic mix of cinematographic and synthetic imagery. (Scott Pagano)

Amon Tobin: ISAM (2011) live visuals by visual design company Leviathan in Chicago, Los Angeles-based V Squared Labs and SF-based fine art-techies Blasthaus is a massive, 2.5-ton structure composed of dozens of white cubes and rectangles made of wood and steel. Two sides of each box face the audiences at 45 degrees so the images hit both sides for a richer 3-D effect. In the center of the structure is Amon Tobin's cockpit – a semi-transparent control room where he plays his laptop and tweaks a few visual components to lend a sense of spontaneity. (Fast Company)

Matt Pyke (*1967) is a painter, photographer, artist, curator, designer, animator, director, producer and lecturer based in a log cabin studio in Sheffield, UK. He founded Universal Everything after 8 years at the internationally renowned studio, The Designers Republic from 1996 - 2004. (Universal Everything)

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