Watkins, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8872-7041 (2017) SKY. [Video]

Video (MP4) (SKY visual music) 19123 WATKINS_Sky_Master_with_Ramp_Background_No_Pitches_2017.mp4 - Accepted Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Download (403MB)

Abstract

The impulse to find correspondences between music and visuals and use these to build a new mode of creative activity – indeed a new art form – has a long history. Visual music encompasses many types of output [1]. Sky is sung wordlessly and fused with abstract animation through composing motion [2], sound temporalizing images [3], sound and space [4] and sense of place embedded in the human voice [5]. It is timely to develop a methodology for creating pieces that afford soft fascination [6].

1. Patteson, T. (2016). The Expanding Instrumentarium. In Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (pp. 152-168). Oakland, California: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ffjn9k.10

2. Watkins, J. (2016). An Investigation into Composing Visual Music Today. Body, Space & Technology Journal, (Vol 17). Retrieved from people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol17/cover.html
3. Brougher, K., Mattis, O., Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), & Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Eds.). (2005). Visual music: synaesthesia in art and music since 1900. [London] : Washington, D.C. : Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson ; Hirshhorn Museum ; Museum of Contemporary Art.

4. Lye, L., Curnow, W. (ed) and Horrocks, R. (ed) (1984), Figures of Motion: Selected Writings pp31-32

5. Chion, M., & Murch, W. (1994). Audio-vision: sound on screen. Columbia University Press p14
6. Smalley, D. (2007). Space-form and the acousmatic image. Organised sound, 12(01), 35-58.

Item Type:	Video
Additional Information:	Presented at Sound/Image 11/11/2017
Uncontrolled Keywords:	visual music, animation, audio-visual, singing, skyscape
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2020 09:25
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/19123

Actions (login required)

View Item

Downloads