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Battey, B and Fischman Steremberg, RA (2016) Convergence of Time and Space: The Practice of Visual Music from an Electroacoustic Music Perspective. In: The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199841547
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This chapter considers the historical lineage and conceptual origins of visual music, addressing the turn to abstraction and absolute film in visual arts, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century, and the turn to mimesis and spatialization in music, particularly through the acousmatic tradition after World War II. The chapter proposes a convergence between visual artists and musicians that prompted the former to embrace time through a shift away from mimesis toward abstraction, and the latter to adopt greater focus on space in shifting from abstraction toward mimesis. Together, these historical shifts prefigure the development of audiovisual art, revealing underlying theoretical commonalities in the articulation of time and space that suggest fundamental dynamics of the audiovisual contract and strategies available to the visual music creator to establish a synergy of sound and image. Some of these strategies are demonstrated in two original case studies.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | visual music, audiovisual, absolute film, abstraction, electroacoustic, mimesis, music spatialization, space, audiovisual contract |
Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > M Music |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Humanities |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2016 16:11 |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2016 16:57 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/2499 |