How is visual music evolving? From experimental film making to assemblages of old A/V equipment, bespoke combinations of software and hardware to off the shelf units and live performance.

How is visual music evolving? From experimental film making to assemblages of old A/V equipment, bespoke combinations of software and hardware to off the shelf units and live performance.

• What are the key technological drivers that are shaping the visual music of the future?
• What are the key technical problems that have been solved?
• Have they really addressed the fundamental issues at play at the heart of visual music or are they defacto standards built on the arbitrary explorations and trends of the past?
• What if the starting point for visualisation is the interaction and mastery of musical instruments. How does that effect how we construct visualisation solutions?
• What does thinking about the visual do to musical performance if they are happening at the same time?
• Is improvisation the best strategy? Can we build systems to enable visual music improvisation?
• Can we build systems that allow us to compose visual music in a fluid manner. Where considerations of the visual and the musical are deeply connected?
• What the visual component becomes the interface. How can understanding core visual music concpets lead to new visual tools for making and controlling sound?

This project aims to investigate what the legacy of Visual Music is in terms of the current field of practitioners that are involved in some technologically enhanced visual/music making process. What their approaches are, what tools and technologies they use and how they are moving the field forward.

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