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CVM's Call for New Visual Music Work

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 08/05/2024 - 04:58

For twenty years Center for Visual Music (CVM), a nonprofit film archive, has been dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media. CVM has preserved a significant body of at-risk Visual Music films by Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Charles Dockum, Jules Engel, James Whitney and others.
Submission fees:
Free submissions
Deadline:
Monday, September 30, 2024 (All day)
ART+FILM: Optical Poetry | Oskar Fischinger Retrospective

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 23/06/2022 - 04:12

Explore a curated selection of short films by Oskar Fischinger – creator of Raumlichtkunst (1926–2012) featured in The Story of the Moving Image exhibition – revealing how experimentation with form and physical media have always been a part of cinema history.
Dates:
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 10:30
Venue:
ACMI - Melbourne, Australia
Radicales libres: Mary Ellen Bute

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 20/05/2019 - 05:22

A programme of animated short films by Mary Ellen Bute, pioneer of experimental animation. Her works, which explore the relationship between abstract image and music, were used as headboards in some of the most prestigious cinemas in the United States, such as the legendary Radio City Music Hall.
Dates:
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 20:00 to Sunday, May 26, 2019 - 19:55
Venue:
Filmoteca Española - Cine Doré - Madrid, España
CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring & Preserving Visual Music

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 13/08/2018 - 04:46

The CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual Music will explore the theories, histories and practices of Visual Music. It features two days of talks and presentations from international scholars, artists, students, curators and researchers (August 14-15), plus a final half day of special sessions. Set in Sonoma County’s wine country, the symposium also features several special events.
Dates:
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, August 16, 2018 (All day)
Center for Visual Music Symposium 2018 Call for Papers

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 23/02/2018 - 03:20

CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual Music
in association with Sonoma State University

Center for Visual Music (CVM) is pleased to announce its call for paper submissions for a Symposium on Visual Music, August 14-16, 2018, in association with Sonoma State University.

Deadline:
Friday, March 23, 2018 (All day)
Visual Music 1947-1986 from the CVM Archive
Thirteen rare films featuring pre-computer abstraction, using a variety of techniques including early oscilloscope experiments, color organs, hand-drawn sound, animation drawn directly on film, painted scrolls, and optical printing. Films from the archive of Center for Visual Music.
Rating:

Average: 4 (7 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Center for Visual Music
Richard Baily & John Buchanan: experiments in spore
Richard “dr.” Baily and John Buchanan: experiments in spore presents three personal art films by Baily, a Hollywood computer graphics visionary (from Tron to Fight Club, Solaris and more), assisted by John Buchanan. It features xtacism (2005), aura (2007), and Baily's Nightwaves (1977), made at Cal Arts. aura was completed posthumously by John Buchanan. Music by Richard Baily.

"These pieces are meant to be environmental background "fill" intended to enhance the space that people inhabit, and not be the foreground element in anyone's awareness, like ambient music, you can check in on it, and leave it for awhile, and check into it again with a different level of focus and concentration, and then leave it again..." - Richard "dr" Baily

Rating:

Average: 3.5 (4 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Center for Visual Music
Robert Seidel: Projections, Installations and Films
Robert Seidel’s work “is an immersive experience, a sensuous dip into light, color, movement, sound and change” - Los Angeles Times

Seidel, who studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, creates video installations, media façades and experimental films. Seidel pushes the boundaries of abstraction to the sublime and organic through his approaches drawn from scientific visual analysis and digital extensions of painting and sculpture. The DVD collects his major films, videos and documentation from his projections and installations from 2001 to 2014.

Rating:

Average: 3.7 (3 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Center for Visual Music
Oskar Fischinger - Ten films
Center for Visual Music presents the first in a series of DVD releases: Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films. This long-awaited DVD contains ten of Fischinger's classic Visual Music films plus many Special Features.

Rating:

Average: 4.1 (12 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Center for Visual Music
Jordan Belson - 5 Essential Films
Jordan Belson is one of the greatest artists of visual music. Belson creates lush vibrant experiences of exquisite color and dynamic abstract phenomena evoking sacred celestial experiences.

Rating:

Average: 3.8 (6 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Center for Visual Music