2’48’’ · cgi · b&w · 2009 · Bremen, Germany

The visual track of Engelplage 1 was programmed in Processing. 800 particles, some of them joined with line strokes, fly around the 2-dimensional screen. Their movement and configuration come from various algorithms, including non-linear attractors and snapping positions to a dynamic grid. The soundtrack consists of sine waves modulated by data from the particles' positions and velocities. The synthesis was done in ChucK, and there was some audio editing done in Audacity.

Soundtrack by Stefan Kreitmayer

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Stefan Kreitmayer
[Ingolstadt, Germany 1980]

Stefan Kreitmayer studied Electronic Composition at ICEM Folkwang Hochschule Essen under professors Thomas Neuhaus and Dirk Reith. Since 2008 he undergoes a Master in Digital Media. Strong interest in computer and video art, contemporary choreography and computer music. Numerous concerts and installations at ZKM Karlsruhe, Zollverein Essen, International Linux Audio Conference and the Musicacoustica Festival in Beijing, among others.

http://kreitmayer.com

5’27’’ · cgi, video comp. · color ·  2005 · Madrid, Spain

Audiocromático is a piece created in December 2005 with the collaboration of various independent artists. It builds up a trip through the spectator’s perception and de-codification. It consists of two parts: Sharp (cold colors and sharp geometry, winding music) and Diffuse (warm colors, soft and slow-moving geometry, ambient music). The visuals were made using a computer. It features geometric glitches and polygonal 3D deformations in Maya. The material was cut and edited based on the soundtrack. Sharp has over 260 cuts in one two-minute segment.

Soundtrack by Lucas S. Becker · José M. Pérez

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Iñigo Sordo Ansorena
[Santander, Spain 1984]

Iñigo Sordo, audiovisual engineer and independent artist. After studying a Digital Cinema and Visual Engineering, he creates a series of audiovisual projects comprising a broad spectrum of representation techniques (real-life footage, SD, HD, 2D, 3D, Stop-Motion, etc). Co-founder of Siete Bandas and co-director of "La Historia Animada de Talarrubias", a 3D animation project for the Junta de Extremadura. He currently works for RTVE as an Image Control Engineer and develops video-art and life-performance projects.

2’10’’ · cgi, video comp. · color · 2009 · Madrid, Spain

The technique is based on loop creation through the design of form and movement in each frame. The multi-layering loops and geometric forms go beyond figuration to stay in the realms of allegorical abstraction and synesthesia.

Soundtrack by Convenon feat. Hugo Lemos
Convenon is a Madrid-based band of experimental electronic music. Hugo Lemos is an Argentinean accordionist. Together, they have transformed the pasodoble "Castañuelas" into an interesting hybrid mixing popular folk culture with experimental music.

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Marta Montero Alonso · Rodrigo Hernández Cifuentes
[Madrid · Spain 1982/83]

The first time that Rodrigo Hernández Cifuentes & Marta Montero Alonso met (in 2009), they were standing next to the Neptune Fountain in Madrid, gazing at the waves created on the water’s surface by each entropic deviation within the liquid. Due to this experience, they created “Olé”, a work inspired by an allegorical experience based on a Spanish folk expression.

http://terrorsoso.blogspot.com

2’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Taipei, Taiwan

Through the digital interpretation of renowned artist Tong Yang Tze’s calligraphy work, JL Design tries to breathe the sensitivity and aroma of Tong’s work with a motion graphics touch. We provide a fresh approach to appreciate calligraphy, to savor the imaginary of poems and prose, the diversity of strokes and the beauty of Chinese character. Just like calligraphic strokes can be hard or soft, hair has the similar bipolar traits. Our visual concept is to play with the hair-like thin threads to convey constantly changing emotions. This animation opens with a seemingly peaceful scene, while emotions are accumulated progressively to end up with a final instant explosion. Once the over-stretched hair threads calm down, the scene returns to stillness.

Soundtrack by Punkcan Yang

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JL Design

It all started with JL's Design website, with well over 10 years of his passionate work since the early 90's, taking home numerous international awards. In 2006 JL returned to Taiwan establishing JL Design and serving the industry as a free flow creative medium. JL Design has since soared; receiving further international exposure and praise, including Reddot awards, iF Award China, Promax/BDA Asia Gold Award, and his works screenings at Siggraph Asia, Bitfilm, Huesca Film Festival, Kinofest Digital Film Festival, Animatu Animation Festival, Off Motion and many others; he hopes to be a gentle yet powerful breeze in the media industry.

http://jldesign.tv

0’33’’ · cgi · b&w · 2008 · Philadelphia·PA. USA

I created this video using AfterEffects and several different plug-ins. The project was created using only black and white and put to the song UW by the band Battles. My goal was to create somewhat of the visuals of microscopic life moving about in some cosmic fashion. Strings of life move around in the beginning, ending up as a single celled life form. I mapped the audio wavelengths to different amplitudes creating the desired results on the plug-ins.

Soundtrack by Battles

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Michael Erla
[Wayne·NJ, USA 1987]

My name is Michael Erla. Pleased to meet you. I am a motion designer from the New York City area. I am a Digital Designer specializing in the creation of Motion Graphics using Maya / Cinema 4D as well as the Adobe CS4 Suite of applications. My passion in life is design.

www.turborandy.com

4’07’’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Brookline·MA, USA

A music visualization. My software makes a high-resolution spectral analysis of music and lets me choose from a range of visualization motifs and sequence a script. The goal is to create imagery that pulses and moves with the music, adding a visual dimension to the listening experience. For this video, I'm interested in capturing the consonance and dissonance of sustained tones. The music is visually interpreted as repeating patterns, whose interactions echo their sonic counterparts.

Soundtrack by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
"Race Point", recorded by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on their CD The Iridium Controversy (2003), used by permission.

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Ned Resnikoff
[Princeton·NJ, USA 1965]

Ned Resnikoff has been playing with music and computers for 25 years. His music visualizations have played in various film festivals and venues, including the Boston Visual Music Marathon, SIGGRAPH 2007, and live with the experimental rock band Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Current work includes software tools that try to make sound and music something we can see, understand, and modify in new ways.

http://nedwaves.com

2’10’’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Los Angeles·CA, USA

The idea of how we think about hair is integral to the conception of this piece. Hair is something which adorns us and from which we develop our conceit of self. When we lose our hair, our frame of self is changed and lengths are taken to maintain our hair. So many expressions come from the noun “hair” and been appropriated into our vocabulary: “split hairs” (argue); “Let your hair down” (relax), “To have someone by the short hairs” (have someone in your control), “Tearing your hair out” (frustration), etc. Hair has so much meaning for us as humans, and I explored these meanings visually. I first questioned how the function “hair” would be used in a 2D program. I was able to control the “hair” parameter to affect interesting results. Further investigation led me to expanded ideas within hair so that I was able to visually expand the role of the “hair” function.

Soundtrack by John A. Armstrong
Currently working in the LA Film industry. Composer for animated shorts including Henry Selick’s Seepage. I am interested in music that employs the use of unusual instruments with alternate tunings. Music that sounds as if it has originated elsewhere, not of this Earth. Composing a score for Angela Diamos's This Thing Called Hair I mirrored the images on the screen. Careful not to introduce rhythms or melodies that would detract or conflict with the textures that evolved. This is a textural piece and the score reflects this. There is mystery in the film at its Beginning, the viewer sees confusion as a world is creating itself and the score follows this confusion with a slow argument between the keys of B and C and a wash of whole tonality. As the images appear to congeal to a resting place the music follows with a final major chord.

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Angela Diamos
[Tucson·AZ, USA 1954]
Associate Professor of Animation, Woodbury University. 18 years in effects animation. In my work I play with the combination and juxtaposition of disparate elements. Coming from a film background and working within that ephemeral world of non-reality, I now find myself caught up with the digital medium’s ability to do the same. Digital technology has allowed me to customize and further my craft and to incorporate the digital world into my art practice. The fragile nature of the digital realm serves to underscore the themes that I develop. Reality placed into an artificial space becomes a world of tenuous relationships mirroring the natural world. I question our connection to reality and give the viewer the responsibility to look beyond one’s immediate environment and consider many differing visual signatures.

2’19’’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Lockwood Sth., Australia

A network of dots and lines that produce sound made with Artmatic graphic synthesizer and user friendly generative image and sound.

Soundtrack by Paul Fletcher
Once a drummer in experimental music group Essendon Airport, Paul has made soundtracks for his films with acoustic and electronic sounds for many years.

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Paul Fletcher
[Box Hill, Australia]

A video/animation & sound artist, over the last 20 years has worked in 2 and 3d media, linear and nonlinear timebased and installation based artforms. Recently, his short films have been included in several international festivals. Paul’s live performances with custom made video and Midi-Vacuum-Cleaner have included Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival 2006, and several concerts over the last five years, including the venues Punctum ICU, Undue Noise and Footscray Audio Visual Centre. Over the Easter weekend in 2008 and 2009, Paul has staged “Hidden Creatures” a large outdoor sculpture, audio and animated video installation as part of the Greater City of Bendigo's Easter Festival. His installation work has been exhibited in several occasions and 1982 to 1990, he produced and sold many limited edition screenprints, record covers and greeting cards.

www.digitalcompost.net

9’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Borgonyà, Spain

An experiment in exploring the possibilities of sound generation using non-linear mathematical models instead of classic synthesis techniques such as “moog". The provisional results include controllers with unforeseeable responses and an overall glitch in the platform’s parameter memory devised for the application Reaktor5 core.
Applied technique: Screen capture and recorded audio  from various live performances, with slight post-production work.

Soundtrack by Ignasi Álvarez Garriga

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Ignasi Alvarez Garriga
[Barcelona, Spain 1967]

He studied at the Liceu and Barcelona State Conservatories under José Manuel Berenguer, and under Jep Nuix at CIEJ. He’s composed several music pieces and works as a software consultant and developer. He currently collaborates with the Telenoika collective.

www.nonlinearinstruments.com

2’16’’ · cgi · color · 2009 ·  Weymouth, UK

This work involves images that are generated using computer code, which randomly places preconceived sets of images into the picture frame, depending on a set of rules I devise. This then creates experimental abstractions that fuse technology with the visual arts. In this work I explore the power of abstract shape through meticulous geometry, working with form, colour and graphic shapes to create work that takes the classic ‘St Ives’ abstraction look into a moving contemporary visual form. The abstract imagery is supported by an atmospheric soundtrack.

Soundtrack by Joe Stevens
With these works I’m also interested in producing an equally compelling soundtrack. As sound artist I work with field recordings and piezoelectric microphones. The sounds that I like are accidents, which are not made specifically to be recorded. I think a lot of sounds you just hear in the world are very beautiful or very interesting; but we usually don’t notice them because we are busy doing things.

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Joe Stevens
[London, UK 1961]

I am a digital artist, programmer, and designer based in the south west of the UK. My animation work explores light, colour and form to create generative animation built from simple rulesets. Informed by a range of influences from the constructivists through the pop art movement and inspired by the St Ives school of paintings, making generative constructions that uniquely regenerate themselves. I have been involved in variety of art/educational projects and I’m committed to a local, socially engaged practice, which seeks to give communities a voice.

http://51degreesnorth.net/joe

3’40’’ · cgi ·  color · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

The piece was created using self-made software that the author has been developing since 2007 and published on the IMPROVISA website. The ideal way to play this piece (and create new ones) is through this application. IMPROVISA allows you to create audiovisual compositions by touching your keyboard. Just select a sound and an animation folder (you can import your own folders to the application). Each folder has 26 files corresponding to the 26 keys on your keyboard. Each key produces a sound and an animation, and you can combine multiple keys to create your own compositions, control the volume, create pan effects, etc… while capturing your own compositions.

Soundtrack by Cristina Casanova Seuma
As a sound artist, she has produced and published 8 cd’s with the net label hazardrecords.org (with FMOL Trio, A Cunt on Fmol and others) and composed the soundtrack for Eugeni Bonet’s feature films “Tira tu reloj al agua” (2004) and “eGolem” (2009). In 2006 she started producing and directing the stage plays “Paisatges en divuit escenes”, premiered in 2007 at Caixafòrum Barcelona,; “El cuerpo de Sade” premiered in 2008 at the Festival Maçart de Cultura Contemporània in Girona, and “Sade de rerum naturae”, premiered in 2009 at the Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid.

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Cristina Casanova Seuma
[Lleida, Spain 1964]

In the year 2000 she creates the cultural association KTON Y CIA, where she develops and coordinates multimedia projects promoting and launching new tools for collective creation on the Internet. Her digital creation projects have been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Sydney, Maracaibo, London, Paris, Lisbon, Lima, New York, Calgary, Beijing, Johannesburg, Brussels, Chicago, Mexico, etc. Since 2007 she started developing the online creative platform “Entorn a l’art visual i sonor”, featuring two main applications: IMPROVISA and DOCUMENTA.

www.ktonycia.com

4’30’’ · drawing, video comp. · color · 2007 · Hannover, Germany

Playful forms gather in front of a repeating pattern. They seem to mold, dance and react with the soundtrack. The technique used is Drawing with Graphic Tablet in combination with picture (Photoshop) and editing software.

Soundtrack by iso68
Band consisting of two Berlin-based musicians

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Astrid Hagenguth
[Königstein im Taunus, Germany 1978]

Astrid Hagenguth studied Animation under Professor Paul Driessen in Kassel, and graduated in 2005. She is currently attending the Masterclass of "Klangkunst" at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig under Professor Ulrich Eller. She lives and works in Hannover, where she also teaches animation.

5’05’’ · cgi · color · 2008 · Dallas·TX, USA

The dot form is explored and layered in rhythm to a celestial soundtrack.

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