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Audio-visual work by
Maura McDonnell
Video Clips
dazzling and blinding link Dazzling and BlindingAbstract Visuals in response to an electroacoustic composition by Kaija Saariaho
edges link Edges Conceptual video based on poem with soundtrack taken from Barry Truax Digital Soundscapes
towards one link Towards One Music and Visuals as process, conceptually based on mathematical harmony laws of Pythagoras. A visualmusic piece.

 

Teaching Related Research - Web Resources
icon Visual Music Visual Music Essay [2007] >>
Visual Music Blog [s. 2005] >>
Visual Music Notes [2003] >>
Colour and Sound [2002] >>
LecturingMaura McDonnell lectures on courses in the M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies Programme at Trinity College, Dublin. The Masters 'Music and Image' is a course jointly designed and presented by John Bates, Fionnuala Conway and Maura McDonnell. This music and image course covers topics in relation to working with music and media, and in particular image and sound.
Cinematic Techniques Research [2002-2003] >>

 

Research Blogs by Maura McDonnell
icon Visual Music Blog Visual Music Blog [s. 2005] >>
Intermedia Art Blog Intermedia Art Blog [s. 2005] >>
Media Spaces / Galleries Blog Media Spaces, Galleries and Resources Blog [s. 2005] >>
  Web Design Features Blog Web Design Features Review Blog [s. 2005] >>
  Interactive Art Blog Interactive Art Blog [s. 2006]>>

 

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Welcome to SOUNDING VISUAL

New Visual Music Essay
Visual Music, April 24, 2007
By Maura McDonnell
An essay on Visual Music was commissioned by Dennis Miller, artistic director of the Visual Music Marathon. The essay was published in the Visual Music Marathon Program Catalog. The Visual Music Marathon took place on April 28th, 2007 at Northeastern University in Boston, USA as part of the Boston Cyberarts 2007 Festival. Note: The catalog version is richly illustrated with image illustrations, the online version is text only.
Link to Visual Music Essay
Link to Visual Music Marathon

Visual Music Marathon: Musical Fine Art Animation Benchmark May 24, 2007
By Jean Detheux
AWN article reviews the Boston Visual Music Marathon. [13 pages!]
Online html
Online pdf

Visual Music Notes - Notes on Visual Music compiled for teaching purposes

Sounding Visual is a web site that explores artisitic works - video, film, installation - that utilise sound and image in a close relationship. Music becomes one of the main aesthetic strands of the work.

The author of this site is Maura McDonnell. Her research and artistic interest is in the area of Visual Music, and sound and image, and in exploring the possibilities of presenting music with moving image/visuals.

Much Visual Music is in an abstract animation style, but it need not neccesarily be of an abstract nature. The technology and artistic exploration of film and video can provide multiple opportunities of working with the syntax of moving image. Experimental film and Video, Performance Art, Conceptual film all provide an exc iting foundation from which to create a visual music language. However, it is mainly the language and syntax of music that provides the influential aesthetic focus for creating a visual music work.

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Works and Artists who create Video/Film work with a strong music focus.

See Video Links for more links to artist/filmmakers

Composer Links

See Music links for more links to composers and music related information

 

© 2002 - 2007, Maura McDonnell