Kinetic Notation System

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 5, 2004 | permalink |  |  

Shawn Gray has an extensive notation system with theory and discussion posted here.

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 4, 2004 | permalink |  |  

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 3, 2004 | permalink |  |  

The creative association between sound and experience is a common interest of both people making movies and people making visual music.

C. Michael Smith presents a new ageish list of correlations of sound with astrology, along with a listing of the major keys.

In contrast, this website makes a series of associations between hertz frequenceis and all sorts of things...

Not sure I believe everything either site claims, but it's interesting anyway.

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 2, 2004 | permalink |  |  

Jeffrey Burns' The Piano of Light is a computer-driven visual music system created to play Scriabin's Prometheus and other pieces of visual music.

The press quoted on the page summarize the project pretty well: "With four contemporary works and the Seventh Sonata of Scriabin, together with a projection screen filled with graphics and the lively play of 60 spotlights onto an artificial 'sky' hung from Podewil's theater ceiling, the first performance on this 'instrument' became a rapturous multimedia event."- Neue Musikzeitung

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story © Michael Betancourt | published November 30, 2004 | permalink |  |  

Paul Karlstrom interviews Larry Jordan for the Archives of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution. Great discussion of his relationship to other film makers and artists.