Audio-Visualism

Audio-Visualism follows on from Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, which covered a broad history of live visual and audio-visual practice. This volume covers the contemporary audio-visual world in greater detail, focusing on the works of artists who work in the interstices between sound, video, light, immersion, virtuality, and social engagement. This book establishes how the relationship between sound and image continues to be a dominant theme in the 21st century. With contributions by scholars, researchers, and active practitioners, this collection demonstrates the knowledge spectrum of Audio-Visualism as a movement, a practice, a research field, and a philosophy. This volume will appeal to a diverse audience, including scholars, students, creative practitioners, and professionals in fields such as audio-visual performance, media art, interactive media, VJing, and music technology. The practical sections of the book offer valuable insights that are highly relevant to contemporary audio-visual creation.

Steve Gibson is an audio-visual performer and Associate Professor at Northumbria University. He has presented at many world-leading venues including ISEA2025 Seoul, 404 Festival Mexico City, and Cabaret Voltaire. Yan Breuleux is a Full Professor at NAD-UQAC. His research-creation practice focuses on visual music for fulldome environments, examining the interplay between narrativity, sensoriality, and immersion in audio-visual practices. Joseph Hyde's work incorporates a wide variety of influences in live electronics, audio-visuals, and immersion. He is Emeritus Professor at Bath Spa University and is currently working for HVN Labs, developing next-generation drone light shows. josephhyde.co.uk Donna Leishman is a media artist, researcher, and Associate Professor of Visual Communication and Digital Cultures at Northumbria University. Her practice explores the ethics and politics of our ongoing participation with digital spaces and art forms and the social implications of this relationship.

List of contributors Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 - Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image Steve Gibson and Yan Breuleux Part I - ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL AND THE REVERSE - JOSEPH HYDE EDITOR Chapter 2 - Technological Progress and Audio-Visual Practice - A critical and non-linear account Joseph Hyde Chapter 3 - A-V The Art of Audio-Visual Relationship Matt Black and Nilly Brook Chapter 4 - Hacking Technology as Art Practice Richard Land Chapter 5 - Override: An Experiment in Interrupting the Congruity of Audio-Visual Relationships Across Analogue and Digital Domains Iris Garrelfs Chapter 6 - Live Chipmusic Visuals Leonard J. Paul Part II - THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL USES AND IMPLICATIONS OF AUDIO-VISUALS - DONNA LEISHMAN EDITOR Chapter 7 - Sleight of Hand: Co-Commodification of Counterculture In Audio-Visuals Donna Leishman Chapter 8 - Activism, Environmental and Non-Conventional Storytelling Within Audio-Visual Practice Mike Faulkner (D-Fuse) Chapter 9 - "For what has not yet been heard": Sonic Resistance in Women's Experimental Film Culture Holly Rogers Chapter 10 - Otekhnóshera: Indigenous Visualizms and the Spectrality of the Technological Vortex Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri (Jackson 2bears) Chapter 11 - Global Narratives: Navigating Power and Presence Christopher Thomas Allen (The Light Surgeons) Part III - MOVING BEYOND THE RECTANGLE IN THE REALITY-VIRTUALITY CONTINUUM - YAN BREULEUX EDITOR The Architecture as Instrument: Fulldome Visual Music Experiments at the Society for Arts & Technology (SAT) Yan Breuleux Chapter 13 - Multiscreen Video - The Affordances of Multiple Screens and the Spaces In Between Rik Lander Chapter 14 - Error is creation: 20 years of Art, Technology and Education. The Experiences of the 404 Festival Gina Valenti Chapter 15 - Beyond the Screen and In Between Art Forms: Ambisonics, 360-video and Audio-Visual Practice in Hong Kong Ryo Ikeshiro Part IV - MODES OF INTERACTION AND INTEGRATION - STEVE GIBSON EDITOR Chapter 16 - Reframing Audio-visual Art through Affect and Becoming Paul Goodfellow Chapter 17 - Embodied Interaction and Audio-Visuals in the Performing Arts Nuno N. Correia and Atau Tanaka Chapter 18 - Sound-Driven Practices With Digital 3D Environments Adriana Sá and Rui Filipe Antunes Chapter 19 - Live Beyond Expanded: Pervasive Interaction and A/V Matthew Tobias Harris Chapter 20 - Total Media Audio-Visualism: Liveness, Embodiment, Serendipity, Agency Steve Gibson Index