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Visual Music DVDs by Contemporary Artists

  (and a few Videos)

NEW Zeitgenossen: German Animation Collection. PAL DVD (2009 release). A Collection of recent animation by artists including Robert Seidel and Baerbel Neubauer. Like no other genre the animation film reflects the diversity and contradictions of German film production. Ranging from puppet animation and CGI to cartoons the dvd Zeitgenossen contains many exciting artistic German short films from the past 20 years. Contains the following films: Balance | Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein; Die Beichte | Jochen Kuhn; Die Kreuzung | Raimund Krumme; Der Hahn | Heinrich Sabl; Clocks | Kirsten Winter; Wir lebten im Gras | Andreas Hykade; Der Falsche Spieler | Mariola Brillowska; Quest | Tyron Montgomery, Thomas Stellmach; Rubicon | Gil Alkabetz; Feuerhaus | Bärbel Neubauer; Die Trösterkrise | Daniel Nocke; Yo Lo Vi | Hanna Nordholt, Fritz Steingrobe; _grau | Robert Seidel; 458nm | Jan Bitzer, Tom Weber, Ilija Brunck. NOTE: The work covers a range of styles, not all are visual music. Balance and Quest won German Oscars. Featured VM films are the spectacular _grau by Seidel, and Feuerhaus by Neubauer. Yo Lo Vi is experimental animation, exploring Goya. Der Falsche Spieler is a music video. DIE TRÖSTERKRISE is made with puppet animation. 120 minutes, PAL, region free. German language. Curated by Ulrich Wegenast, head of the Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart. Includes 32 page booklet (in German). Limited Supply. Images courtesy Robert Seidel, from _grau and Baerbel Neubauer from Feuerhaus (Firehouse).

Private home use $35         

NEW Aurora Edition 1 Collection. PAL DVD. Various Artists, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Japan, UK and US. An exciting mix of artists' film and animation, the compilation includes computer-generated and mediated work alongside treated and re-edited films - a deliberately catholic selection of work in the manipulated moving image. Edition 1 is packaged in a glossy double-gatefold sleeve and includes a 16-page booklet with biographies of the artists and contact information. It includes the following films:

Mercurius - Bret Battey, and Energie! - Thorsten Fleisch (image above, right)

plus Radar - Volker Schreiner, Expansion - Sara Bjarland, Clut - Joe Gilmore & Paul Emery, Dove Coup - Ben Rivers, Krypt - Lars Nagler, Falsche Freunde (False Friends) - Sylvia Schedelbauer, Head - Félix Dufour LaPerrière & Dominic Etienne Simard, Memorija Vrpce (Memory of Tape) - Damir Cucic, Wie Wir Leben (The Way We Live) - Nikolaus Jantsch, Cities - Brandon Harrod, and Kaizer (Kaiser) - Kotaro Tanaka. As this is a compilation disc, not all films are visual music. 67 mins, PAL, region free.

Private home use $35

NEW Guy Sherwin, Optical Sound Films 1971-2007. PAL DVD set with 128 page booklet by Guy Sherwin. LUX London Release, 2008. Optical Sound Films explores in detail one of British artist Sherwin's particular and recurrent concerns, the synaesthesic relationship between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound. These investigations take Sherwin from physical manipulation of the very material of film through to live performances utilising multiple film projectors, all of which are explicated through drawings, diagrams, video documentation as well the films themselves. DVD contains numerous films plus some documentations of his live performances, plus booklet.

Contents: Films: Phase Loop (1971), Sound Shapes (1972), Cycles 1(1972/1977), Newsprint (1972), At the Academy (1974), Soundtrack (1977), Musical Stairs (1977), Railings (1977), Night Train (1979), Interval (1974), Interval #2 (1974/2007), Notes (1979), Notes #2 (1979/2007), Optical Sound (2007), Spirals (1974), Cross Section #2 (1997/2007). Extracts From documentation of Film Performances: Cycles #3 1972/2003 at La Sala Rossa Montreal. Newsprint #2 1972/2003 at Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. Vowels & Consonants 2005-6 (with Lynn Loo) at Bullion Theatre London, Mobius Loops 2007 at Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Sound Cuts 2007 at Site Gallery Sheffield.

Private home use $45, limited supply. Inquire for Institutional purchase information.

George Stadnik: Three Times Three - Digital Lumia 2006-2008. DVD. A Collection of new Digital Lumia compositions by Stadnik: Shadow X3 (2008), Untitled (2008) and Mirror Mirror (2006). Stadnik has been creating Lumia since he first saw Thomas Wilfred's Opus 158 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1968. He composes Lumia using commercial software that simulates optical phenomena. Shadow X3 was created during a series of experiments with color diffraction, and partly inspired by Monet's studies of Rouen Cathedral (21 mins, silent); Untitled (2008) was inspired by the music "Elegy For Iraq" by Dr. Franklin Morris, a pioneer in electronic music. Untitled (2008) is also in CVM's traveling New Visions program. The final composition, Mirror Mirror (15 mins, silent), is a portrait Lumia in which the viewer can project and imagine whatever angels or demons they may see in the changing image before them. NTSC DVD, Approx 45 minutes. Sound and Silent. Please also see this page, below, for Stadnik's two previous DVDs available. For more about LUMIA, we recommend the two Thomas Wilfred LUMIA DVDs available on our main Store page.

Private home use $29          Institutions $100 (Classroom and Library Use only, does not include public performance rights).

Sylvia Pengilly and Michael Rhoades: Six Videos (2008). DVD.

Includes Patterns of Organic Energy, The Outer Edge of Possibility, Unperceived Dimensions, Release!, Anaphasics and Impossible Spaces, created between 2004-2008. Synergistic Visual Music collaborations by Pengilly (video) and Rhoades (music). These videos are all, in some way, attempts to exemplify and intensify the relationship between what the ear hears and what the eye sees. In some cases these relationships were applied in a very structured way, while others were approached more intuitively.

Pengilly's visuals are inspired by diverse influences including quantum mechanics, mathematical formulae, Calbi-Yau spaces and physics. In her Visual Music explorations, she uses Artmatic Pro to generate the visuals and then MetaSynth to derive musical samples from keyframes of the visuals. In her collaborations with Rhoades (composer), she generates musical samples in this manner, then Rhoades, using Csound, processes and mixes them to create the music. For Release! the process was reversed in that Rhoades’s musical composition was written first. Then Pengilly extracted visual segments from the waveforms, and used them to generate a series of animations which were then synchronized with the music from which they originated.

Pengilly's work has been featured in Leonardo's Computer Music Journal. NTSC, region free. 4 x 3. TRT approx 50 mins. Includes Liner Notes about the videos, by Pengilly and Rhoades. November 2008 release.

Private home use $19.99          Institutions $100 (Classroom and Library Use only, does not include public performance rights).

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.

Private home use or educational purchase, $20

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). temp. out of stock We also offer Stadnik's previous DVD, Digital Lumia, below.

Private home use only, $40 Institutions, $100 (Classroom and Library Use only, 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 (Classroom and Library Use only, does not include public performance rights).

vE - jA : Book with DVD. Eskander, Xarene, Ed. vE-jA is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. Includes DVD with dozens of clips from VJs worldwide. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 50+ movies and clips on an accompanying DVD and web downloads. Regionally organized, the book showcases VJing and live A/V not as an isolated art phenomenon for geeks, but as a global art movement with sophisticated creators and audiences alike. The organization of the book in this manner has lead to discoveries of the differences and similarities in the devlopment of the art including the influence of specific urban styles, political and social states, cultural influences, as well as hardware and software development and influences in specific regions. Introductory essay by Marius Watz brings forth the role of synchronicity of audio and video technology in cinematic performances; Barry Munsterteiger, lead producer of Apple video software, focuses on the role of art in the evolution of technology; Grant Davis (VJ Culture) provides supportive information on VJ specific hardware and software. Essays by contributing artists cover local cultural aspects influencing VJ scenes globally and provide insight on the inflluences and productivity of cities such as London, Helsinki, Barcelona, Tokyo and general scenes of US, Austria, France, Netherlands and Australia. 2006 publication, $35.

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 (Classroom and Library Use only, does not include public performance rights)

Baerbel Neubauer: Colours and Minutes, DVD.

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).

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 (Classroom and Library Use only, does not include public performance rights)

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. VHS Videotape, NTSC.

Private home use: $19.95        Institutions: $75 (Classroom and Library Use only, does not include public performance rights).

Video Out: The Story of VJ'ing and Live Video Art. DVD, NTSC.

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.

Private home use $30.         Institutions $100. (does not include public performance rights)

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Also see the CVM Avant-Garde page, for other work. While not all specifically visual music, these are important avant garde works we recommend.

Ordering Information:

Via Credit Card - click the order button next to each item; or call CVM with your order via telephone at 213-683-1514 (12-6pm PST).

Via Check - For dvds, videos and books, add $5.00 shipping for first item, $1 for each additional item. CA residents please add 9.25% tax.
Via University/Institutional PO - contact us at CVM Store. NOTE: Institutional rates listed do not include public performance rights, only classroom and library use are permitted. Museum exhibitions do NOT fall under these categories; usage in museum or gallery exhibitions is not permitted for any of the dvds or videos sold by CVM. Please inquire for information on additional permissions and fees for these public exhibition requests.

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).

Prices listed do not include shipping. Please allow up to 2 weeks to fulfill order, though most ship within 3 business days.

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