Visual Music

I have just come across the work of Andreas Karaoulanis. His animations are 'stop me in my tracks' beautiful. I have watched some from his vimeo channel, but felt I must post this to keep track of this great work. Why do I like it? The illustrations in a moving collage type style are so rhythmic. The movements and the flat arrangement of objects and cut outs in a formless and groundless space, in fact, the space is just a background colour in many works, is perfectly in tune with the musicality of the music, not just a synchronised beat but a whole mood, style and playfulness that may not even be apparent in the music, if one listened to the music on its own, but emerges with his playful rhythms and arrangement and positioning of independent yet connect…

Opening late July,2011, Los Angeles: Expanded Abstraction : A special 3-screen program from CVM featuring Scott Draves' Generation 244, plus work by Robert Seidel, Baerbel Neubauer, Christina McPhee, Maura McDonnell and Charles Dockum. Curated by Cindy Keefer. LA County Museum of Art, central plaza, Stark Bar. On view beginning July 28, evenings through January, 2012. Images courtesy Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep. PREVIEW of McPhee's Bird of Paradise video triptych. (re posted from CVM events page: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm OPENING NIGHT - Thursday, July 28 Please join CVM at LACMA at Stark Bar - Thursday, July 28 CVM's new *Expanded Abstraction* 3-screen program begins in LACMA's Stark Bar (central plaza, next to …

Book - Abstract Film and Beyond by Macolm le Grice "Malcolm Le Grice, an important experimental filmmaker from England, film journalist for Studio International, and teacher ... gives us a lucid account, both historical and theoretical, of the main preoccupations of abstract filmmakers.... " Source: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=5112