1’36’’ · cgi · b&w · 2008 · London, UK

The animation “Up And Down” visualizes an electroacoustic composition by British sound artist Kaffe Matthews. Specially developed algorithms generated the imagery.

Soundtrack by Kaffe Matthews

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David Muth
[Ried im Innkreis · Austria 1971]

David Muth is a London based artist, musician and programmer. Having grown up in Salzburg, Austria, he relocated to the UK to study at Middlesex University, where he received an MA in Digital Arts. His artistic practice combines conceptual and experimental approaches and is informed by his background in architecture. His projects range from installations and responsive environments, through video and experimental documentary, to composition and performance of music. David’s work has been shown on numerous occasions internationally, with venues and events including the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal, the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Ars Electronica in Linz, ISEA2006 in San Jose, Le Cube in Paris, Montevideo in Amsterdam, Laboral in Gijón and SIGGRAPH2009 in New Orleans. He also teaches at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art.

www.davidmuth.net

4’30’’ · cgi · color · 2009 San Francisco·CA, USA - Barcelona, Spain

"Once upon a point" is a generative video piece created by code programming in Processing. It shows both the evolution of a dot and the evolution of its community. It’s about how communication and understanding make way to the formation of higher, more complex structures.

Soundtrack by Alex Gámez · Aleix Fernández
Behind the Asferico project hides Barcelonan Alex Gámez, a Dj since he was 15 and a producer since he was 17. His aliases are many: Dj deck, under which he creates minimal sessions, tech and experimental house; clase muzique, his project as a producer with Fran Palomo (Barcelona), which ranges from the most rhythmic to the most “cerebral” minimal. Alex Gámez is also the creator of the artists’ platform and electronic music festival Störung.
www.asferico.net

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Aleix Fernandez Curell
[Barcelona, Spain1980]

Aleix Fernández is a creative director at Onionlab Motion Graphic and Interactivity Studio. His commercial works include clients like Audi, Seat, Mango, ABC (American Broadcasting Company), Red Bull, Ikea and Ericsson. His experimental works include his audiovisual performance “Imaginary Soundtracks”, premiered at Sonar 06, published on the 2006 ADC*E (Art Directors Club Europa) and awarded a LAUS prize; his music clip for the Slovenian producer Umek, number 1 on MTV Adria, and his participation in the “‘Optronica’ : Hybridations sonores” exhibition at the Museum of Numerical Art Le Cube (Paris).

www.onionlab.com

2’20’’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Seattle·WA, USA

This is the fourth movement in Symphony By Numbers, a work of intermedia, or visual music. This movement is a perpetuo mobile, consisting of a continuous stream of notes through most of its length. The large irregularly shaped “dots” are like pixels on a very low resolution display. The sounds are kind of bell-like and use vocal formants for the harmonics.

Soundtrack by Donald Craig

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Donald Craig
[Munich, Germany]

Donald Craig has just completed his Doctorate in Music Composition at the University of Washington in Seattle·WA. He has studied with Joel Durand, Kenneth Benshoof and Richard Karpen, and most recently with Juan Pampin. He also plays guitar and has studied with Steven Novacek. Both his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation were works of visual music. As part of his doctoral dissertation, he developed software for visual music composition.

4’10’’ · video comp. · b&w · 2009 · Brighton, UK

An audio-visual experiment with electronic music directly influencing the image. The specially composed sound was fed into Helliwell’s self-built analogue video oscilloscope, which generates waveform patterns shaped by the input signal. The soundtrack was composed using Hellitron tone generators, cassette tape and Helliceiver.

Soundtrack by Ian Helliwell

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Ian Helliwell
[Newcastle Upon Tyne · UK 1966]

Living in Brighton since 1985, Ian has produced music, super-8 films, electronic instruments, cinema and music programs and light-show projections for concerts and club nights. He has made over 50 short experimental films since the early 1990’s; many have been screened at festivals across Europe, USA, and Japan, and Ian has been a short film competition jury member at festivals in Norway and Germany. Years of experimentation with building and modifying 9v circuitry, has led to the development of his unique series of Hellitron tone generators, used to make the soundtracks to all his super-8 films. In 2007 he designed and built an analogue synth, the Hellisizer 2000, and during 2008/09 he has been making a series for radio called The Tone Generation, which traces the early development of electronic music across the world.

www.ianhelliwell.co.uk

6’11’’ · color · 2007 · Barcelona, Spain

Sincrotró is an allegory of the streams wandering about at high temperatures and speeds close to the speed of light as they are propelled by a particle accelerator…
The number 3238 is random, don’t search for any significance here…
Digital-analog sound synthesis, live visualization captured from the oscilloscope’s display. Sound notes sequencing and improvisation with the synthesis parameters. Capture of audio excerpts and sample images during the final render.
Audio and video recorded with a miniDV camera in front of the oscilloscope.
All 3D illusion in this piece is exactly that: mere illusion.

Soundtrack by Albert Callejo Amat
Sound + oscilloscope imagery experiment playing with concrete shapes. Rhythmic game and creation of unexpected situations, syncopy and polyrhythm. Final acceleration and an approximation to hyperspace…?

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Albert Callejo Amat
[Barcelona, Spain 1968]

Self-taught musician, he works as a Vj since 1998. He currently performs live visuals.

2’30’’ · cgi · b&w · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

Life (and death) as seen through the microscope. Layers and layers of basic elements, cells that build up a complex unity.

Soundtrack by Javier Navinés_pantano
Musician and Composer, he’s worked for the cinema and advertising sectors.
www.myspace.com/pantanopantano

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Nico Juárez Latimer-Knowles
[León, Spain 1971]

Architect and Audiovisual Designer. He’s developed online and off-line projects for clients in the private and public sectors, creating and producing websites, interactive screens, motion graphics, animations and end titles for TV productions. He currently works as a creative designer. He also teaches Master classes in Motion Graphics at the BAU School and at the New Media School at IDEP, Barcelona. He collaborates with the Broad.cat platform as a guest editor.

6’03’’ · drawing, cgi, op-art · color · 2009 · San Francisco·CA, USA

We are what is hidden within.
Some templates, from the mid 80's, for a study on sorting information through a tetrahedral lattice were recreated to generate a study of inner and outer. Specifically created for Punto y Raya, and rendered with a visual music synth using cellular automata and sliding bit planes. The soundtrack was generated by harmonized acoustic feedback. World premier.

Soundtrack by Warren Stringer
The music was rendered in 1980 on Ampex tape during a fateful year when whale oil was replaced with another lubricant that in several years turns to gum. So in 1994, the master was heated up to 120˚ Fahrenheit and transferred to DAT tape, while a pile of ferrite collected to remind of what will never be again. Meanwhile, in 2009, both DAT machines had died. So I performed an autopsy and a mechanical séance to yield up bits from the beyond grave.

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Warren Stringer
[Davenport·IO, USA 1957]

Warren Stringer is a generalist, who from the age of 10 onwards has been performing original music, visuals, and code.

http://muse.com

1’08’’ · stop-motion, video comp. · b&w · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

Black and white paper cut-outs allude to the graphic element used in architecture: the line. Construction and de-construction in the constant frenzy of modern life; day and night follow each other… maybe with a glimpse of change. Basic animation technique: stop-motion and digital compositing.

Soundtrack by Luisa Vergara

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Luisa Vergara
[Santiago, Chile 1958]

1999 Erasmus-Socrates Exeter School of Art and Design. Scholarship, University of Plymouth. England. Since 1990her work has been exhibited and awarded in various exhibitions and festivals.

2’ · drawing, video comp. · color · 2008 · Edinboro·PA, USA

Edinboro Improvisation was hand-drawn using TV Paint and a Wacom tablet. The film is based on an animated statement in which a line appears, transforms and then disappears. This basic graphic statement was composited into a series of variations by manipulation of scale, orientation and rhythm and combined with an original soundtrack of loop based music. The resulting composition was returned to TV Paint for hand coloring.

Soundtrack by Charles Bandla

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Charles Bandla
[Dunkirk·NY, USA 1950]

Charles Bandla is an independent filmmaker, musician and educator living in Rochester·NY. He holds an MFA in Computer Animation from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a BA in Studio Art from SUNY College at Fredonia. Bandla's experiments in visual music and graphic choreography are supported by teaching traditional and computer animation as a visiting assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Alfred State College.

8’24’’ · cgi · b&w · 2009 · Beijing, China

In this video, we start off with the elemental geometries which form a picture -point, line and surface- to study the laws of shape-shifting in a 2D space. The video creates spatial illusion by exchanging, duplicating, intersecting and transforming those elements, representing thus the transformation from a single dimension to multiple dimensions. Integrated with the theories in the I Ching, Book of Changes, it reenacts the eternal cycle between generation and termination. By experiencing the illusions and movements of sound in space, the audience is expected to sense space and time, balance and opposition.

Soundtrack by Ren Linxiao
The visual and audio tracks work together. The short bass sound represents the point in the image; a sound with confined frequency variations represents the line, while the reverb rhythm represents space, consisting of sides. The sound’s rhythm changes alongside the video, reflecting the untouchable multidimensional space beyond the picture. That is why I say that the sound used in this video is different from music, as it belongs to the video representation and cannot work on its own.

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Ren Linxiao
[ChangSha, China 1985]

Graduated in 2009 in Experimental Video Studio from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives in Beijing as a video artist and VJ performer.

www.vimeo.com/linxiao

3’01’’ · cgi · color · 2008 · Dallas·TX, USA

The line and dot are revered in this awe inspiring combination of sound and cgi.

Soundtrack by Mary Benedicto

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Mary Benedicto
[Valencia, Venezuela 1968]

Education Master of Fine Arts, Art and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson·TX, 2008. Bachelor of Fine Arts, East Texas State University, Commerce·TX, 1992. She’s participated in many group and individual exhibitions.

http://marybenedicto.com

3’25’’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Torino, Italy

This is an audio-reactive video, which means that visuals are real-time generated by a custom-built application reading an audio track. Audio frequencies drive graphics and effects behaviours. While I was designing the graphics and program behaviours, I listened to the audio track, so music not only drives the final application, but has also inspired the visuals.

Soundtrack by Ben Lukas Boysen_hecq
Ben Lukas Boysen is a freelance sound designer and musician. Based in Berlin, he started developing his commercial career in 2005 by collaborating with companies such as Wieden+Kenedy, 1st Ave Machine, Digital Kitchen, Scholz+Friends on projects for Leica Cameras, Deutsche Bank, BBC, 20th Century Fox, CBS, Marvel Comics, Audi, Bentley MTV, VH1 and many more. He and also lectured at different conferences like OFFF, BD4D, MultiMania and Flash On The Beach.

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Stefano Maccarelli
[Caserta, Italy 1979]
Stefano Maccarelli is a Torino-based Art Director. He’s currently experimenting with audio-video interactions, creating applications that generate audio-reactive videos and video-reactive sounds. His videos are the result of various levels of image-sound interventions and are always inspired by music, a sensation, an idea.

www.stefano-maccarelli.com