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Construction 76 

(2008) 

by video artist LIA was created in collaboration with the musicians collective @c. A five-minute sound track was taken from @c’s 55-minute track 76 and synchronized with visuals.

Parallel to a sound oscillating between bongo sounds, electronics, rich sonic associations and atmospheric piano/cello sounds, the computer-programmed video features arabesque-like shapes and simple graphic elements that arise against a cosmic, black and red background, multiply and vanish again.

Formally, the video brings to mind the seeing-sound film s and experiments by Mary Ellen Bute or John Whitney, Sr. and James Whitney. Like these, Construction 76 also tries to translate sound into abstract forms. LIA’s works go beyond purely experimental aspects, however; her live performances create environments whose system of references can be easily found in contemporary VJ culture.
(Text: IG. Catalogue text: See this Sound exhibition)

 

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Construction 76, kugeln, software, female, mystic, Video Clip

Reading

See this Sound (2009) by Liz Kotz (Author), Cosima Rainer (Editor), Stella Rollig (Editor), Dieter Daniels (Editor), Manuela Ammer (Editor) compiles a huge number of artists, filmmakers, composers and performers, reaching back into the early twentieth century and into the present to survey overlaps between not only sound and art, sound and film, and the metaphor of cinema as rhythm or symphony. Proceeding chronologically, the book takes the early cinematic eye music of Hans Richter as a starting point, noting parallel works by Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger; moving into the postwar period, the art/cinema/ music experiments of Peter Kubelka, Valie Export and Michael Snow are discussed, establishing precedents to similar work by Rodney Graham, Carsten Nicolai, Jeremy Deller and many others. (Artbook)

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)

‘vE-”jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video (2006) by Xarene Eskander is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 50+ movies and clips on an accompanying DVD and web downloads. (VJ Book)

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SEE ALSO

Digital Harmony (1980): On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art – John Whitney, Sr. wanted to create a dialog between "the voices of light and tone." All of his early experiments in film and the development of sound techniques lead toward this end. He felt that music was an integral part of the visual experience; the combination had a long history in man's primitive development and was part of the essence of life. His theories On the complementarity of Music and Visual Art were explained in his book, Digital Harmony, published by McGraw-Hill in 1980. (Paradise 2012)

Depart are Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf, both born in Austria. Leonhard Lass is responsible for the visual part and now lives and works as a visual designer and artist in Barcelona, Spain. The man behind audio, Gregor Ladenhauf lives in Vienna, Austria and works there as a musician and artist. They both meet on a textual level which forms the base for visual and musical ideas. (Transmediale)

circulation (2009) by Itaru Yasuda is a generative audiovisual installation made with Processing and SuperCollider. (Itaru Yasuda)

Psyk (2001) by Ali M. Demirel - Music video for the Plastikman track Psyk. Plastikman is probably the best known of Canadian DJ Richie Hawtin's production aliases. A study in minimalist repetitions. (pingmag)

Sonar (2009) by Montreal-based designer Renaud Hallée is a musical loop generated by shapes with cyclic behaviors. A basic keyframe animation using flash, without scripting. (Renaud Hallée on Vimeo)