Networked_Music_Review

Live Audiovisuals by Amy Alexander and Nick Collins

Tags:
history
live
audio/visual
VJ/DJ
performance
electroacoustic
writings
light
art + science

Helen
Thorington

av.jpgA chapter on Live Audiovisuals written by Nick Collins and Amy Alexander appears in the recently released book, The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, edited by Nick Collins and Julio d’Escrivan.

The chapter discusses histories of audiovisual performance, including its ancestry in color organs, visual music filmmaking, light shows, cognitive science, and more - as well as various approaches to current practice including VJ’ing, live cinema, and digital media art performance. This one is not available online, but the book is available from the usual sources.

The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music includes original contributions from many international artists, including Karlheinz Stockhausen and Max Mathews. Chapters introduce the reader to the history and practices of electronic music, including electroacoustic music composition, perceptual aspects and sound synthesis. Considers recent contemporary trends and promotes new movements in this continuously evolving field.


Apr 15, 11:30
Trackback URL

Leave a comment

Live Stage

Interviews

Current interview:
Stephen Vitiello

Previous Interviews:

Tags

freq alpha

music ~ sound ~ livestage ~ performance ~ installation ~ audio/visual ~ instrument ~ radio ~ audio ~ calls + opps ~ networked ~ experimental ~ mobile ~ event ~ festival ~ interactive ~ participatory ~ live ~ collaboration ~ electronic ~ distributed ~ reblog ~ video ~ locative media ~ environment ~ concert ~ nature ~ electroacoustic ~ workshop ~ field recording ~ software ~ tool ~ recording ~ net_music_weekly ~ improvisation ~ history ~ writings ~ exhibition ~ acoustic ~ voice ~ sound sculpture ~ space ~ sonification ~ body ~ mapping ~ VJ/DJ ~ immersion ~ remix ~ noise ~ public ~ soundscape ~ wearable ~ generative ~ light ~ laptop ~ visualization ~ interview ~ interface ~ platform ~ diy ~ city ~ found ~ virtual ~ cinema ~ algorithmic ~ sensor ~ second life ~ electromagnetic ~ controller ~ site-specific ~ spatialization ~ streaming ~ hacktivism ~ conference ~ net art ~ webcast ~ architecture ~ urban ~ responsive ~ narrative ~ robotic ~ ecology ~ game ~ circuit bending ~ ambient ~ resource ~ intervention ~ biotechnology ~ score ~ wireless device ~ lecture ~ composer ~ object ~ dance ~ paper ~ telematic ~ sound walk ~ augmented ~ mashup ~ auralization ~ open source ~ motion tracking ~ text ~ hybrid ~ mixed reality ~ listening ~ multimedia ~ social network ~ art + science ~ intermedia ~ data ~ image ~ opera ~ livecoding ~ surveillance ~ news ~ film ~ nmr_commission ~ wireless network ~ pyschogeography ~ political ~ toy ~ privacy ~ synesthesia ~ 3D ~ gesture ~ copyright ~ theater ~ 8bit ~ newsletter ~ avatar ~ place ~ spoken word ~ residency ~ play ~ soundtrack ~ podcast ~ sample ~ upgrade! ~ physical ~ conversation ~ web 2.0 ~ technology ~ tactile ~ recycle ~ feedback ~ social media ~ emergence ~ presence ~ language ~ tactical ~ broadcasts ~ identity ~ cassette ~ processing ~ asynchronous ~ community ~ tv ~ e-literature ~ jazz ~ code ~ ubiquitous ~ aesthetics ~ Artificial Intelligence ~ tangible ~ new media ~ random ~ presentation ~ haptics ~ activist ~ glitch ~ chance ~ courses ~ chiptune ~ interdisciplinary ~ archives ~ research ~ simulation ~ conductor ~ context-aware ~ post-convergence ~ acousmatic ~ hardware ~ im/material ~ therapy ~ business ~ satellite ~ multimodal ~ relational ~ synchronous ~
3D ~ 8bit ~ acousmatic ~ acoustic ~ activist ~ aesthetics ~ Artificial Intelligence ~ algorithmic ~ ambient ~ annotate ~ architecture ~ archives ~ art + science ~ augmented ~ auralization ~ audio/visual ~ avatar ~ biotechnology ~ body ~ broadcasts ~ business ~ calls + opps ~ cassette ~ chance ~ chiptune ~ circuit bending ~ city ~ code ~ collaboration ~ community ~ composer ~ concert ~ conductor ~ conference ~ context-aware ~ controller ~ conversation ~ copyright ~ courses ~ data ~ distributed ~ diy ~ e-literature ~ ecology ~ electroacoustic ~ electromagnetic ~ electronic ~ emergence ~ environment ~ event ~ exhibition ~ experimental ~ feedback ~ festival ~ field recording ~ film ~ found ~ game ~ generative ~ gesture ~ glitch ~ hacktivism ~ haptics ~ hardware ~ hybrid ~ identity ~ image ~ im/material ~ immersion ~ improvisation ~ instrument ~ interactive ~ interdisciplinary ~ interface ~ intermedia ~ intervention ~ interview ~ jazz ~ language ~ laptop ~ lecture ~ light ~ listening ~ cinema ~ livecoding ~ livestage ~ locative media ~ mapping ~ mashup ~ mixed reality ~ mobile ~ motion tracking ~ multimedia ~ multimodal ~ nature ~ net_music_weekly ~ net art ~ networked ~ audio ~ dance ~ installation ~ live ~ music ~ narrative ~ radio ~ sound ~ text ~ theater ~ video ~ new media ~ news ~ newsletter ~ nmr_commission ~ noise ~ object ~ open source ~ opera ~ performance ~ platform ~ tool ~ play ~ physical ~ place ~ podcast ~ political ~ post-convergence ~ presence ~ presentation ~ privacy ~ processing ~ public ~ paper ~ pyschogeography ~ random ~ reblog ~ recording ~ recycle ~ relational ~ remix ~ research ~ residency ~ resource ~ responsive ~ robotic ~ sample ~ satellite ~ score ~ second life ~ sensor ~ simulation ~ site-specific ~ social media ~ social network ~ software ~ sonification ~ sound sculpture ~ sound walk ~ soundscape ~ soundtrack ~ space ~ spatialization ~ spoken word ~ streaming ~ surveillance ~ synchronous ~ synesthesia ~ tactical ~ tangible ~ telematic ~ history ~ participatory ~ technology ~ asynchronous ~ wireless network ~ therapy ~ tactile ~ toy ~ tv ~ ubiquitous ~ upgrade! ~ urban ~ virtual ~ visualization ~ VJ/DJ ~ voice ~ wearable ~ web 2.0 ~ webcast ~ wireless device ~ workshop ~ writings ~

What is this?

Networked_Music_Review (NMR) is a research blog that focuses on emerging networked musical explorations.

Read more...

NMR Commissions

NMR commissioned the following artists to create new sound art works. More...
More NMR Commissions

Net_Music_Weekly

Regurgitated Monologues

 [Image: Garrett Phelan] Garrett Phelan works and lives in Dublin, Ireland. In recent years Phelan has focussed his practice on extensive explorations into the formation of opinion ... Read more
Previous N_M_Weeklies

Newsletters & RSS

NMR offers a weekly review and a monthly e-mail newsletter and several RSS feeds. Read more...
Sign up to receive NMR by email

Bloggers

Guest Bloggers:

F.Y.I.

networked_performance
Turbulence
New York State Music Fund
Feed2Mobile
New American Radio

Turbulence Works

More commissions