Photos from Sabrina Ratté & Roger Tellier-Craig

I got to see Sabrina and Roger's amazing performance at the BFI on the 13th, here are some awful photos of Sabrina's beautiful imagery and a video Rosa took of their fantastic performance at Sonic Acts 2015 so you can also hear the incredible sounds too, even if it is a different set.

http://le-revelateur.tumblr.com/ I belive sabrina is also giving a talk soon to, info here

Just Jam Barbican

Got some work in this thing, coming up soon, along with lots of other nice artists and musicians.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=17052

Photoacoustics

Photoacoustics as a word is now used in association with various methods of studying electromagnetic activity via acoustic detection in medical and scientific contexts. Originally Alexander Graham Bell & Charles Sumner Tainter discovered the ability to modulate a light source using sound and inversely modulate a sound producing membrane using light when working on their Photophone optical telecommunications system. This line of thinking starting around 1880 with the Photophones invention and continuing right up to the 1920s, eventually made possible inventions like optical sound on film (with all these technologies being indebted to the even earlier discoveries of the photoelectric properties of materials such as selenium). Sound on film interests me a lot in both it's exploitation in the early 20th century by artists and purely for it's interesting technological development. I have gathered a lot of information about the creative use of sound on film but I also became interested to find evidence of still images that recorded sound (also see earlier post on the eidophone) so anyway the first two images are I believe of Bell's experiments from a really cool blog on photography  Homemade Camera 

Second are some images produced by Robert W. Wood using single wave fronts
 produced by sparks, the latter image is a diagram based on the first, I believe.

Last up is the Phonodeik an instrument designed by Dayton Miller
that allows the photography over time of complex sound waves. It
reminds me very much of the earlier Phonautograph but with a
photographic output.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_sound
http://homemadecamera.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/photoacoustics.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Wood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography

http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Phonodeik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonodeik
http://www.phys.cwru.edu/ccpi/Phonodeik.html
http://courtneyjl.wordpress.com/
http://dssmhi1.fas.harvard.edu/

I have allot more stuff to include on this subject including cymatics and optical sound experiments which I left out to cut down the size of this post, but if you have any interesting links I always welcome tips in the comments

New Wave Theater

some amazing if incidental effects, mixing and weirdness from New Wave Theater, thanks to John for passing this my way!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_Theatre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ivers
http://adhoc.fm/post/new-wave-theatre/
http://night_flight1.tripod.com/newwavetheatre.html

Bermuda Triangle Lovely Audio Visual Extravaganza featuring James Alec Hardy

He so James gave me the heads up about this great event this Saturday for the benefit of Resonance104.4fm

He will be presenting the first performance of his Ziggurat 00120140215 broadcast system around 20:30ish here is a little sneak preview


and the rest of the audio visual line up looks great too

When: Saturday 15th February 2014 8pm - 2am
Where: Roxy Bar & Screen, 128-132 Borough High St, London SE1 1LB
Door: £5 donation to Resonance104.4fm

more info here 

Early Lighting Effects at The BBC

Via youtuber Marc Campbell

This is a video of some beautiful lighing effects work at the BBC 

more on the history of lighting effects coming very soon

CTI (Chris & Cosey)- Elemental 7

Chris & Cosey messing with some video

Psyberflight by David Eagan

from David of http://www.audiovisualizers.com

Antonio Roberts Hellocatfood

Antonio Roberts has been making interesting work for a long time now, more info on his site,

http://www.hellocatfood.com/ http://hellocatfood.tumblr.com/ he combines both hardware and computer based processes with a deft hand.

"The first output from a visuals jam session with Gabriella Gardosi/Gaia Gaoi whilst she was in the UK. She drew abstract forms using the Tagtool which I then uikdusahdisalhg4 messed with using a Panasonic WJ-AVE5 video mixer."

more

and more

a really nice example of how video bending works

catch him soon at SuperByte 2013 

THE WIRE SALON: VISUAL MUSIC AND SONIC IMAGES: NAM JUNE PAIK, CHARLOTTE MOORMAN AND EARLY VIDEO ART-MUSIC

ANGRY I AM MISSING THIS

Monday 2nd September 2013

Door Times : 8pm

When affordable video technology arrived in the 1960s, it was welcomed not only by visual artists wanting to work with moving images and noise, but also by musicians wanting to visualise sound. In fact, many of the earliest video artists began their careers as musicians: Nam June Paik was an experimental composer; Steina Vasulka was a classical violinist; Robert Cahen trained in electroacoustic composition; and Tony Conrad was a member of The Theatre Of Eternal Music. These influential musicians ensured that early video developed into a highly sonic genre.

In the hands of these experimental composers, video enlarged the broader cultural and artistic climate of experimentation and inclusivity of the 1960s. In particular, the moving image technology encouraged expansive and interactive performance situations that challenged conventional methods of art and music consumption.

In this illustrated talk, Holly Rogers will explore the musicality of early video and its performance through the complex relationship and controversial collaboration of two of its most charismatic practitioners, the Korean artist Nam June Paik and avant garde cellist Charlotte Moorman, a collaboration that led not only to many interactive and highly influential events, but also to several arrests.

Holly Rogers is a composer, performer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Audio-Visual Media at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of several books on music and the moving image including Visualising Music: Audio-Visual Relationships In Avant-Garde Film And Video Art (2010) and Sounding The Gallery: Video And The Rise of Art-Music (2013).

The Wire Salon is a monthly series of events, hosted by The Wire magazine, dedicated to the fine art and practice of thinking and talking about music. The events consist of talks, panel discussions, film screenings and DJ sets.

Doron Abrahami

Doron Abrahami working using "electronic modulator" at the Royal College of Art TV studio 1975. There is not much info online, Abrahami is quoted in this classic David Hall article here http://www.luxonline.org.uk/articles/video_report(1).html although David dosn't seem to like synthetic work much :/

E.S.P. TV - Ende Tymes Festival 2013

http://unartignyc.com
http://www.facebook.com/UnartigOfficial

Dave Skipper & Ethan Drown Hurlburt - psychedelic noise rehearsal

http://www.youtube.com/user/timoveromon

THE LAND BEHIND

Video+sound editing / Sabrina Ratté
Music / Roger Tellier-Craig


THE LAND BEHIND from Sabrina Ratté on Vimeo.

Infinite Buoyancy - Cookies

http://www.youtube.com/user/cabreet

SPRAWL 4 KNOWN OCEAN

Ill be providing some visual accompaniment for Known Ocean at Sprawl 4 this thursday night in Peckham

http://knownocean.blogspot.co.uk/

http://knownocean.bandcamp.com/

https://twitter.com/Sprawl_Peckham

http://facebook.com/sprawl.peckham

Playing at Power Lunches

Gary and I are playing at Power Lunches tomorrow filling in for Meddicine who is a little ill
come down to see some poorly planed A/V craziness.

Mau'lin

https://soundcloud.com/maulin

the Analogue electronica of

Benjamin Jackson

https://soundcloud.com/benjaminjackson

Genre hopping electronica of East India Youth

https://soundcloud.com/east-india-youth

Unfort Meddicine can't make it anymore to we have a show from a brand new audiovisual act Chris & Gary.

Plus on DJ Duty Keepers + Inner Forest.

8:00 - 2:00

Jan 5th @ Power Lunches

Tickets are £4 advance or £6 on the door:

Alivia Zivich, Nate Young, Steve Kenney as Demons

"Demons evolved from a synthesizer duo into a Visual Music trio with the incorporation of video artist Alivia Zivich. Working under the name "Video Madness" she often used the music of Demons as soundtracks to her analog video experiments. Live performances as a group led to the redefining of Demons as Visual Music."

Demons have produced some pretty interesting visual music and are a rare example of the art form as a live hands on band. Alivia Zivich has also produced some interesting solo work some of which can be found on line. While I love the 'high art' of many of the visual music pioneers I can't help but be attracted to the hands on approach to production, something which I have been attempting recently by playing out more often. I wish I could have caught them on their relatively recent European tour.

http://www.wolfeyes.net/aarecords/
http://www.youtube.com/user/aliviaz
https://vimeo.com/aarecords
http://esspresents.com/2011/12/29/aa-records-installation/
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/593

Jennifer Juniper Stratford

Jennifer Juniper Stratford and her awesome studio has been producing super cool work for a while now. Her Studio sounds very interesting."Telefantasy Studios creates cult movies, music videos, and experimental films using a mix of practical, analog, and computer generated effects. The studio houses a large selection of analog equipment as well as video synthesizers and vintage computers which are often mixed with current technologies to produce new and innovative forms of media."

I also regularly visit her blog which is a great miscellany of the strange, synthetic and scifi.

http://jjstratford.blogspot.com
http://www.telefantasystudios.com/
http://www.jjstratford.com

The Gravy Sessions XII

Gary and I performed a Live session for the guys at The Gravy who are all super nice. The Gravy sessions are recorded with live audio and video mixing which is really nice thing to be part of, hats off to Superlative TV who provided most of the excellent visuals and filmed our session. I am also continually amazed how well Gary can improvise while I am playing badly tuned chords on my modular synthesizer. He steers our improvised set the right side of melodic. I am processing Gary's footage while we both play the audio track, It is a very poorly prepared ramshackle performance but there are moments I think sound and video look interesting.

our set


and here is the whole thing


Featuring a guest mix of psychedelic soul by The McCartneys (Johnny Debt), video by Ella McCartney.
Also Chris & Gary performing live improvised audio visual