Audiovisual art is the exploration of kinetic
abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a Composition (visual arts), composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non- ...
and music or sound set in relation to each other. It includes
visual music
Visual music, sometimes called color music, refers to the creation of a visual analogue to musical form by adapting musical structures for visual composition, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. It also refers to methods ...
,
abstract film
Abstract may refer to:
*"Abstract", a 2017 episode of the animated television series ''Adventure Time''
* ''Abstract'' (album), 1962 album by Joe Harriott
* Abstract algebra, sets with specific operations acting on their elements
* Abstract of ti ...
, audiovisual
performances
A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
Performance has evolved glo ...
and
installations.
Overview
The book ''Art and the Senses'' cites the
Italian Futurist artists,
Fortunato Depero
Fortunato Depero (30 March 1892 – 29 November 1960) was an Italian Futurism (art), futurist painter, writer, sculptor, and graphic designer.
Biography
Although born in Fondo or in the neighboring village of Malosco, according to other sou ...
and
Luigi Russolo
Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto '' The Art of Noises'' (1913). Russolo completed his second ...
as designing art machines in 1915 to create a multisensory experience of sound, movement and colour.
In the 1970s
Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 – November 6, 1978) was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture furniture designer, designer.
Bertoia was born in San Lorenzo di Arzene, San Lorenzo d'Arzene, Province of Porden ...
created sound sculptures of objects to have a multisensory effect, exploring the relationships between the sound, the initiating event and the material properties of the objects.
In an example with overt musical connections, ''The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics'' cites musician Brian Williams (aka
Lustmord
Brian Williams is a Welsh musician, sound designer and composer. He has released albums under the name Lustmord starting in the 1980s and through the present.
Williams began as a recording artist within the industrial genre, working with Ch ...
) as someone whose practise crosses audiovisual art and mainstream media, where his work is "not traditionally 'musical'" and has "clearly visual aspects".
See also
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Abstract film
Abstract may refer to:
*"Abstract", a 2017 episode of the animated television series ''Adventure Time''
* ''Abstract'' (album), 1962 album by Joe Harriott
* Abstract algebra, sets with specific operations acting on their elements
* Abstract of ti ...
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Audiovisualogy
Audiovisualogy is the study of audiovisual media, including cinema, television or other visual art forms.
The etymological meaning of the word "audiovisualogy" is linked, on the one hand, with audiovisual, the means jointly related to the view ...
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Color organ
The term color organ refers to a tradition of mechanical devices built to represent sound and accompany music in a visual medium. The earliest created color organs were manual instruments based on the harpsichord design. By the 1900s they were el ...
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Experimental film
Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that does not apply standard cinematic conventions, instead adopting Non-narrative film, non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many e ...
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Sound art
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary Time-based media, time-based Artistic medium, medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in Cross-genr ...
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Sound installation
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBell ...
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Sound sculpture
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBell ...
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Synaesthesia
Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People with sy ...
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Video art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. V ...
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Visual music
Visual music, sometimes called color music, refers to the creation of a visual analogue to musical form by adapting musical structures for visual composition, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. It also refers to methods ...
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Audiovisual performance
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New media art
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robo ...
References
Further reading
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* Adriano Abbado, "Perceptual Correspondences of Abstract Animation and Synthetic Sound"
Leonardo Volume 21, Issue 5, MIT Press, 198
* Andy Hunt, Ross Kirk, Richard Orton, Benji Merrison, "A generic model for compositional approaches to audiovisual media", Cambridge Journals, 199
* Rodrigo F. Cádiz, "Fuzzy logic in the arts: applications in audiovisual composition and sound synthesis", NAFIPS, 200
* Michael Faulkner/D-FUSE, "vj audio-visual art + vj culture", Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2006
* Mick Grierson, "Audiovisual composition", into the pill, 200
* Holly Rogers, ''Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art Music'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
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