Audio-visual music and Sound Art, a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice-led research field for developing intermedia artworks

"By added value I mean the expressive and informative value with which a sound enriches a given image so as to create the definite impression, in the immediate or remembered experience one has of it, that this information or expression 'naturally' comes from what is seen, and is already contained in the image itself".

(Chion, 1990)

"Visual elements [...] are composed and presented with aesthetic strategies and procedures similar to those employed in the composing or performance of music".

(McDonnel, 2007)

Audio-visual music and Sound Art, a collaborative and interdisciplinary

practice-led research field for developing intermedia artworks

What can we say about Visual Music and Audio-visual Music?

What does Intermediality mean?

What is Sound Art?

Falling: an Audio-visual Music work

Al-Kīmiyā

"Two media or medial forms of articulation are each present in their own materiality and contribute to the constitution and signification of the entire product in their own specific way".

(Rajewsky, 2005)

"Synchresis is the mental fusion between a sound and a visual when these occur at exactly the same time. Synchresis is an acronym formed by telescoping together the two words synchronism and synthesis".

(Chion, 1990)

"In which the materials of various more established art forms are ‘conceptually fused’ rather than merely juxtaposed".

(Vos, 1997)

(E. Varese)

"Sound art may concern itself with music, but music itself is not necessarily sound art".

(Korrick, 2011)

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"Media combinations concerns phenomena in which individual media or their material manifestation become inextricably bound to, or even ‘merged’ with, one another, and as such are simultaneously and oscillatingly present".

(Rajewsky, 2005)

"A cohesive entity in which audio and visual materials are accessed, generated, explored and configured, primarily currently with the use of computer-based electronic technology, in the creation of a musically informed audio-visual expression. Electroacoustic audio-visual music works explore the possibilities that the combination of their two timebased media (sound and moving image) allow".

(Hill, 2010b)

"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars"

(attr. to Giotto)

Chion, M. (1990). Audio-vision: Sound on Screen. Trans Gorbman, C (ed.). New York: Columbia University Press 1994.

Hansen-Löve, A. A. (1983) Intermedialität und Intertextualität. Probleme der Korrelation von Wort-und Bildkunst–Am Beispiel der russischen Moderne. In: Wolf Schmid and Wolf-Dieter Stempel, (eds.) Dialog der Texte. Hamburger Kolloquium zur Intertextualität (Vol. 11). Wien: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, p. 325.

Hill, A. (2010b) Desarrollo de un Lenguaje para la Música Audiovisual Electroacústica: Investigación Sobre su Comunicación y Clasificación" In: Minsburg, R. (ed.) El Límite - Escritos Sobre Sonido, Música, Imagen y Tecnología. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Lanús, pp. 144-165.

Higgins, D. (1966) Intermedia. In: Something Else Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1. Reprinted In: Higgins, D. (1984) Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of Intermedia. Carbondale-Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, p. 15-29.

McDonnell, M. (2007). Visual Music. In: Visual Music Marathon Program Catalog, Northeastern University, Boston, April 2007. Boston: Boston Cyberarts 2007 Festival.

Moritz, W. (1986) Towards an Aesthetics of Visual Music. ASIFA Canada Bulletin. Retrieved 25 August 2016.

Rajewsky, I. O. (2005) Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermediality. In: Intermédialités: Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques / Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature and Technologies, (6), p. 43-64.

Reider, C. (2012) What is Sound Art? [WWW] Sound Through Barriers. Available from:

http://soundthroughbarriers.com/definition.html [Accessed 24/08/2016]

Vos, E. (1997) The Eternal Network: Mail Art, Intermedia Semiotics, Interarts Studies. In: Ulla-Britta Lagerroth, Hans Lund and Erik Hedling, (eds.) Interart Poetics. Essays on the Interrelations of the Arts and Media. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, p. 325-336.

Varèse, E. Il Suono Organizzato, scritti sulla Musica, Milano, Ricordi-Unicopli, 1985.

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