Understanding VISUAL Music 2011
Hexagram-Concordia
Centre for Research
Creation in Media Arts and Technologies
in collaboration with
the Department of
Music
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Montreal - Canada
August 26th and 27th, 2011
DAY ONE, Friday (Aug 26th)
8:30
Registration
9:00
Opening
9:15 Jean Gagnon (keynote) -
Visual Music and
Instrumental Playing
10:00
Break
10:15 Papers
- session #1
1. Luigi
Allemano - Silent
and Still: Origins of 'Visual Music'
2. Randolph
Jordan -
Visual Music Cinema and the
Ideologies of Sound/Image Synchronization
3. Jan
Thoben - Image
Audification - Visual
Music in Black and White
4. Xárene
Eskandar (CVM) - Where
to Draw a Line: From ____ to VJing12:15 Lunch
13:30 VISUAL
MUSIC show #1 @ DB Clarke Theatre (curated by The iota Center)
1. Jules
Engel
- Shapes And Gestures
2. Chris
Casady - Puddle
Jumper
3. Kino
Gil - Geometrio
4. Neil
Ira Needleman - Respect
for Red and Green
5. David
McCutchen - Pachelbel's
Canon
6. Bill
Alves - Celestial
Dance
7. Sylvia
Pengilly - Impossible
Spaces
8. Sara
Petty - Furies
9. Jeremy
Speed Schwartz - Ornament
#3
10. Audri
Phillips - I
Never Met a Dweeble I Didn't Like
11. Ramona
Behravan - Genesis
and VooDoo
12. Adam
Beckett - Kitch
in Sync
15:15
Coffee break
15:30 Papers
- session #2
1. Insook
Choi & Robin Bargar - A
visual strategy for cultivating attentive listeners in the
context of playable
media
2. Laurie
Radford - 'I am
sitting on a fence' - Negotiating Sound and Image in Audiovisual
Composition
3. Joseph
Hyde -
Visual Disassociation and
Audiovisual Acousmatics: Noise and Silence in Visual Music
4. Brian
Evans - Sound
and Meaning in Visual
Music
17:30
Break
19:30 VISUAL
MUSIC show #2 @ DB Clarke Theatre (curated by the UVM
team)
1. Jean
Piché - Australes/Boréales
(21:00)
2. Alison
Loader – Folding
(2:40)
3. Emilie
LeBel – Devotion
(11:35)
4. Jean
Detheux – Rupture
(4:00)
5. Samuel
Pellman - NGC 6357 (7:37)
6. Dennis
Miller - White
Noise (9:40)
7. Maura
McDonnell - Silk
Chroma (11:20)
8. Insook
Choi - Wayfaring
Swarms (8:00)
9. Joseph
Hyde - Vanishing
Point (11:45)
10. Jane
Cassidy - The
Night After I Kicked It (9:38)
DAY
TWO - Saturday (August 27th)
9:00 Papers
- session #3
1. Mark
Franz -
Composition and Improvisation
in Time-Based Visual Performance
2. Adrian
Freed -
Diverse Roles of Objets
Trouvés in Live Solo Visual Music
Practice
3. Jaroslaw
Kapuscinski - Oli's
Dream: Music of Common Sensibles
11:00
Break
11:15 Jean Piché (keynote) -
This is not
Cinema. Notes for an Emerging Art Form
12:00
Lunch
13:30 VISUAL
MUSIC show #3 @ DB Clarke Theatre (curated by Dennis
Miller - VM Marathon)
* All
selections are from the Northeastern University Libraries
Visual Music Special
Collection.
1. Stephanie
Maxwell, images Allan Schindler, music - Time
Streams
(2003)
2. Vishal
Shah, images
Adam Stansbie, music - Seek
Assistance
(2005)
3. Jim
Ellis, images
Aksak Maboul, music - Whisper
(1997)
4. Damir
Cucic, images
Erich Maria Strom, music
- Memory of the Tape
(2007)
5. Rebecca
Ruige Xu, images YanJun Hua, music - Rain
(2005)
6. Betsy
Kopmar, images
The Headroom Project (Andreas
Ecker), music - Night Fishing with Comorants
(2009)
7. Bret
Battey - Sinus
Aestum (2009)
8. Kasumi, images James Lauer,
music - UGOKU (excerpt) (2007)
9. Brian
Evans - Pipilo
(2007)
10. Semiconductor
(Ruth
Jarman & Joseph Gerhardt) - 200 Nanowebbers (2005)
11. Bum
Lee, images
Erik Satie, music - Sports
and Diversions
(2005/6)
12. Tina
Frank, images
General Magic, music - Chronomops
(2005)
13. Karen
Aqua, images
Ken Field, music - Sensorium
( 2007)
14. Brian
O’Reilly, images Curtis Roads, music - Nanomorphosis
(2003)
15. Gerhard
Daurer,
images/music - add.value
5 more (2006)
16. Jean
Detheux, images Jean Derome, music - Machinalement
(v.31)
(2010)
17. Eva
M. Toth, images Gyorgy Kurtag Sr. & Jr.,
music - Lajka’s
Memory (2004)
15:15
Coffee break
15:30 Papers
- session #4
1. Eleni
Michaelidi - Music to
be seen: The Diatope (1978) by Iannis Xenakis as an early
example of a digital
audiovisual aesthetic
2. Ewa
Trebacz - Depth
modulation: visual music in immersive media environment
3. Lewis
Sykes - The
Augmented Tonoscope
4. Adam
Tindale - Designing
Audio Reactive Visual Software
17:30
Closing remarks
19:30 VISUAL
MUSIC show #4 @ DB Clarke Theatre (curated by the UVM
team)
An all-live
show featuring Lumínico
from Mexico (Rodrigo Sigal,
Alejandro Escuer,
and José
Luis García Nava) and
other international artists/performers.
1. Julien-Robert
Legault
Salvail - Fit
into the crowd (10:00)
2. Jaroslaw
Kapuscinski - Oli’s
Dream (6:00)
3. Bruno
Degazio - Fractal
Shiva (7:00)
4. Donna
Hewitt – Idol
(8:30)
--- short
break ---
5. Patrick
Saint-Denis – Trombe
( 7:00)
6. Terry
Gambarotto – Kardionic
(13:00)
7. Mark
& Laura Cetilia – Aphrosia
(13:00)
--- short
break ---
8. Lumínico (featured artist) - Live
performance (30:00)