Center for Visual Music

Xtacism/SPORE DVD, by Richard "dr." Baily and John Buchanan. DVD. NTSC, region-free. (Sorry, delayed due to absurdities...)

NEW Semiconductor: worlds in flux (2007). A DVD of Short Films, Art-works, Music Videos and Live Cinema Documentation

Semiconductor are artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt who make stunning, cutting-edge digital artworks in the form of sound-films, music videos and live animation. Guided by obsessive interests in landscape, architecture, geography, chaos / systems theory and artificial life forms, they explore the potential of the computer to unite sound and image (sounds generating and controlling imagery; and vice versa). What's revealed are physical worlds in flux - cities in motion; shifting landscapes and systems in chaos . Hugely original and immensely creative, Semiconductor approach each project from a fresh angle, always looking to extend themselves and to break new ground. They have exhibited their work in gallery installations, at festivals and in live / club environments; and have been awarded numerous fellowships, prizes and residencies, notably as artists in residence at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory UCB. This DVD offers a comprehensive overview of their work over the past five years. Contains 13 films: 1 Brilliant Noise 2 The Sound of Microclimates 3 múm-Green Grass of Tunnel 4 Inaudible Cities 5 Strata 6 qt-qqq 7 Mini Epochs 8 Sonic Inc (extracts) 9 Digital Anthrax 10 Earthquake Films 11 Do You Think Science... 12 All the Time in the World 13 Double Adaptor-200 Nanowebbers. DVD, Dual sided (PAL/NTSC), Region-free, 2007 release.

George Stadnik: Flame (2006). A Silent Digital Lumia Composition of Visual Music. Flame is a visual music meditation about fire. Rendered in HD 1280x720 Pan Scan with both 16:9 and 4:3 screen formats. Digital Lumia is created by using optical simulation algorithms and software to construct virtual optical machines. The elements within each machine are adjusted over time so that a visual sequence of changes in color, refraction, reflection and shadow is composed. The resulting sequence is tested with key frames, then rendered in one of several resolution and file formats available for output. "Breathtakingly gorgeous! A pure sensory experience, in the tradition of Thomas Wilfred's Lumias. Recommended highly." (CVM). DVD, 49 mins, NTSC, all regions. (Disc is SD). We also offer Stadnik's previous DVD, Digital Lumia, below.

Private home use only, $40

Institutions, $100 (limited educational license, does not include public performance rights)

Samantha Krukowski: Five Works 2001-2006 (DVD). Contains stillwater (2006), Bubelen (2006), Chalazae (2005), Salt and Glue (2002) and Between Canvas and Celluloid (2001). Krukowski's complex, alchemical work uses video as a painterly domain. "I began to notice the ways in which specific technologies affected image and spatial types, inspired their mutation and transformation, and implied various input and output strategies. In order to navigate and exploit these relationships, I moved my work consistently between analog and digital, still and kinetic modes." (SK). In Between Canvas and Celluloid Krukowski mixes a variety of approaches and techniques, including sewing on film. Statement by the artist, Alchemical Frames. 2006 release, NTSC.

alchemical substances and processes
combinations | recombinations | contaminations

Private home use $25

Institutions $100 (does not include public performance rights).

vE - jA (Book & DVD, 2006). Eskander, Xarene, Ed. vE-jA is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. Order on Books & Journals page. Includes DVD with dozens of clips from VJs worldwide.

Baerbel Neubauer: Flockenspiel I-IV (2005). A film in four parts, with experimental digital animated images. Image and Sound painted with digital brushes. Music composed by Neubauer. DVD, NTSC. Approx 25 mins. Quicktimes available here.

Private home use $30

Institutions $100 (does not include public performance rights)

2 hour version Ken Jenkins, Illumination 2, DVD - Visual Music by Ken Jenkins. This is simply entrancing visual beauty that is ever-evolving - rich tapestries of breath-taking colors - smooth graceful movement. It would be difficult to tire of a dvd this beautiful! This dvd is so filled with beautiful patterns that it can maintain fascination/interest even with repeated viewing. Music by Iasos, John Serrie, Constance Demby, & Tom Moore, and also a new bonus track with music by Steven Halpern. ""...remarkable collage of sight and sound - a mind bending, ever-changing aurora of astonishing beauty..." (Billboard magazine). NTSC.

2 DVD versions: Original version, 42 mins, and a special 2 hour version!

2 hour version: Private home use $20 Institutions $100 (does not include public performance rights)

Original version: Private home use $20 Institutions $100 (does not include public performance rights)

Includes Algorithms, Falter-Spot 7, Roots, Moonlight, Holiday, Firehouse, Passage. Please visit AWN Archive for Neubauer's article about her work, and a Quicktime clip of Roots. Available in both NTSC and PAL DVD.

Private home use $30 NTSC

Institutions $100 NTSC (does not include public performance rights).

Private home use $30 PAL

Institutions $100 PAL (does not include public performance rights).

Glenn McKay: Altered States 1966-1999. DVD (2005). Glenn McKay's light art will mesmerize you with brilliant colors and music from four decades on this new DVD release. In four movements, the Altered States dvd starts with vintage rock from Jefferson Airplane (Plastic Fantastic Lover, Volunteers), set to McKay's early 60's pulsating sensory overload style. The 70's evolve into a tweaky sound track by Knox Bronson, electronic culture mastermind, with scenes from McKay's world travels in a highly abstracted form. The 80's movement travels into pure geometric and color abstractions, with an uplifting electronic/acoustic soundtrack by Dean Evenson. McKay’s 90's movement goes deep into fantastic liquid color landscapes with a dark, electronic music voyage crafted in collaboration with McKay by Greg Jalbert. This DVD captures McKay's main installation exhibit (a 4 decade retrospective of video and slides) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1999: “... brings the viewer into a strange and beautiful environment fusing light and sound to create a new experience.” (Robert Riley, SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts). Contains additional 60's film footage by Scott Bartlett and Jerry Slick. DVD, ntsc, TRT: 64 mins.

Private home use only $39.95 (does not include public performance rights)

George Stadnik: Digital Lumia DVD.

20+ minutes of new original digital Lumia compositions created between 2003 and 2005. GreenViolet Reflecto with original soundscape by Adam Evans. SunSpot, Meditation II and a digitally enhanced version of Primordial Soup (1975).

Private home use $35 Institutions $100 (does not include public performance rights).

Scott Draves, Spotworks DVD. 87 minutes of hypnotic retinal bliss by San Francisco VJ/software artist Spot aka Scott Draves. Includes looping tracks with solid backgrounds for use by VJs and progressive scan for videophile quality playback. Imagery is all open source. "With the spiked eye candy and fractal arabesques of Spotworks, Scott Draves has significantly raised the bar on digital psychedelia and the broader category of abstract animation." --Erik Davis, contributing writer to Wired Magazine. DVD, NTSC.

$20

Jordan Belson : Mysterious Journey. Videotape, 1997. "A lyric, poetic, and visionary trip through outer and inner space. Beautiful and profound, spiritual and sensual, speaks the language of the soul." (liner notes) 1997, VHS Videotape, NTSC, 30 mins (images courtesy Jordan Belson). Visit our store's main page for the new Belson DVD.

Private home use $35

Institutions $150 (does not include public performance rights)

Doctor T (Emile Tobenfeld): Video Mandalas (A Study in Symmetry). DVD release 2005. A 60 minute Kaleidoscopic journey in motion and sound, with images from around the world, and a soundtrack of ambient music by Dr. T, Mitchell Barnes, and Control-X. Diverse images (Dancers, faces, flowers, fire, flowing water, ice, buildings, street scenes, stars, planets) are transformed into symmetrical patterns in the computer. These patterns are then animated, layered, and sequenced to create a symphony in symmetry. Symmetry is a universal concept, an essential element of mathematics, physics, biology, art, and religion. A mandala is a symmetrical arrangement of images used as a meditation aid. Carl Jung described it as symbol depicting the endeavor to reunite the self.

Private home use $20

Institutions $100 (does not include public performance rights)

Includes Rumpelstilzchen and Passion. Reble focuses on exploring the film material through bacterial processes, weathering, and chemical treatment during and after development. Rumpelstilzchen and Passion are hand-developed films about creation, evolution, and destruction. Reble also does live performances developing and decomposing film loops using chemicals, acids, and silver-replacing agents. Published by Re:Voir, Video, NTSC, 69 mins.

Private home use: $40

Institutions: $200 (permits screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)

David Lebrun, Tanka.Tanka means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the 16th to 19th centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Video, NTSC.

Private home use: $19.95

Institutions: $100 (does not include public performance rights).

Michael Snow Presents. Includes a 40-page booklet of texts on the film. Snow invites us to contemplate and put into question his chosen medium, in an oscillation between what is represented and its process and material. Published by Re:Voir, Video, NTSC, 90 mins.

Private home use: $40

Institutions: $200 (permits screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)

From the psychedelic light shows of the 1960's to the heady, early days of experimental video art; from New York's nascent Soho Scene to today's techno underground, Video Out tells the story of live video art over the last thirty years. Featuring: Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bill Etra, Kurt Ralske, Benjamin Weil, Carl Goodman, Angie Eng, The Light Surgeons, Joshua White, Glen McKay, George Stadnik, and many others. Produced and Directed by Meredith Finkelstein and Paul Vlachos, 2005. Approx 80 minutes. (Quicktime trailer)

Private home use $30.

Institutions $100. (does not include public performance rights)

Also see the CVM Avant-Garde page, for other work by Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas and others. While not all specifically visual music, these are important avant garde works we recommend.

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Mailing address: Center for Visual Music, 453 South Spring Street, Suite 834, Los Angeles, CA 90013. DVDs/Videotapes are also available for pickup at our downtown Los Angeles Gallery Row office BY APPOINTMENT only (213-683-1514).

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