Category Archives: Visual Music Studio

Visual Music Studio – Final Project

Ryan Raffa, Visuals and Sound Editing Spencer Snyder, Composer Mark Lev Through the manipulation of public domain film and sound composition, we are investigating the meaning and use of gesture as it relates to human interaction. By using film from the late 1940′s and 1950′s, which often times contain exaggerated movements from the actors to [...]

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Visual-Music Culture – Written Response

Here is a link to my written response to Visual-Music Culture by Kerry Brougher:

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Visual-Music Culture – Research

I’m currently going through the reading for my Visual Music Studio class, and I investigated a few of the early films referenced in the reading. Two of my favorites were Opus I (1921) by Walter Ruttmann and An Optical Poem (1937) by Oskar Fischinger. After watching Busby Berkely’s Dames (1934), I immediately thought of Michel [...]

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Sound-Image Translation Assignment – Steve Reich “Octet”

For Visual Music Studio, the first assignment for the visual artists was to choose one piece of music from three options and create an original 2D image response/translation/interpretation to the chosen piece of music (no moving-image pieces). I chose Steve Reich’s “Octet”, which you can listen to here: Octet by Steve Reich While listening to [...]

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Sound-Image Translation Assignment – Steve Reich "Octet"

For Visual Music Studio, the first assignment for the visual artists was to choose one piece of music from three options and create an original 2D image response/translation/interpretation to the chosen piece of music (no moving-image pieces). I chose Steve Reich’s “Octet”, which you can listen to here: Octet by Steve Reich While listening to [...]

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