Visible sound, visual music, visual acoustics – “flashes” in space and time.
Visual music, – or in other words, music to the eye – is mostly time-based visual solutions, where musical thinking and the editing that can be connected to it are crucial. In this particular artistic expression, sound and image are equally connected, constructed, and followed by each other. This can be full synchronization, but it can also be based on syncresis (Chion), for example.
More than ten years ago, I started organizing a series of visual music events, including exhibitions, symposia, and live performances. The first was at the Korean Cultural Center in Budapest, then at ArtPlacc in Tihany, then at the University of Kaposvár (this was already international), and most recently took place in Valletta, Malta (as an event of the European Capital of Culture). I continue this line now under the auspices of the MAMŰ. The event consists of two parts: an exhibition and related live electronic audiovisual performances.
Visible-audible works of art are here related to the topic in different ways. Analog, digital, hybrid, interactive, composition, improvisation, and comprovisation. These are just labels glued to the systematization, the point is somewhere else. (Zs. Gy.)
Exhibiting artists: BAK Bálint; BERNAGOZZI, Debora; BÖLÖNI Anna; BRIFFA, Vince; CERICOLA, Loris; DÓRA Attila; ERGIMEN, Djindji; GYENES Zsolt; HAJDU Levente; JANCA Ákos, JANCA Lili, KAJI, Shusaku; KELLE Antal ArtFormer; KOROKNAI Zsolt; MÁTRAI Péter; MOSTOHA Marcell; NAGY Ákos; NAGY Roland; PAWLIK, Krzysztof; SZŰCS Gábor; YOUNG, Kit