audioreactive 

(2009) 

by Jorinna Scherle is based on the principles of minimal music and visualizes microtonal events such as frequency, duration, tone pitch and sound volume in 3D environments.

audioreactive is one part of Jorinna Scherle's final exam at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.

At first developed and designed independently, the 3d-setups reveal their connection to the sound through the animation in many different ways. The audio influences and controls variables such as position, size, color, light, texture or physical principles like gravity or magnetism. (Programming in C4D/Xpresso).

 

The audioreactive series encompasses following pieces:

POLY:GON (sound: Tim Hecker)

E-LINES (sound: DACM, Tim Hecker)

MAGNETO (sound: Tim Hecker)

SW (sound: Radiohead)

CHENILLE (sound: Fennesz)

 

 

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Reading

‘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)

Notation. Calculation and Form in the Arts (2008) is a comprehensive catalogue (in German) edited by Dieter Appelt, Hubertus von Amelunxen and Peter Weibel which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and the ZKM | Karlsruhe. (ZKM)

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)

 

SEE ALSO

playZero (2010) by Victor Morales was originally part of an opera called Playzero made at Festspielhaus St. Pölten in June 2010. Music by Wolfgang Mitterer.

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)

Vogelstimmen (2009) by Victor Morales was performed alongside Olivier Messiaen's Un Sourire played by the TonKünstler Orchestra at the Festspielhaus in St Pölten, Austria. Victor Morales was not looking for a representation or marriage of media/meaning. He used CryEngine 2 to make the 3D space/map and performed it using Quartz Composer to control the montage in realtime and to add some effects. (Victor Morales)

Permutations (1966) by John Whitney, Sr. was an early artistic film constructed entirely off the black-and-white monitor of a large computer system (IBM 360, IBM 2250 Display, written in GRAF and FORTRAN). Color was added by editing with an optical printer. It is an elegant abstract work composed of architectures of color dots that develop pattern while displaying a kinetic rhythm. This early work has had an immense influence on the later generations of computer animators. (Paradise 2012)

Winterreise – Songs & Places (2010) is an exploration of Franz Schubert’s iconic song cycle where different spaces intersect in order to create a new and interesting performance. Real-time visuals generated with video games, surround music based on urban field recordings and Schubert’s Winterreise lyrical part were combined. Winterreise – Songs & Places is a collaboration between Victor Morales (visuals), Ulrike Sowodniok (voice and performance) and Hannes Strobl (Music). (Winterreise – Songs & Places)