*UnderstandingVISUALMusic 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

http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca/

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*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 Rolesof 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)