Iconoclasm in Visual Music

From the earliest experimental film works to today’s contemporary and diverse use of moving image platforms, the notion of visual music is considered synonymous with abstract animation, because in part, abstract imagery is employed across the vast majority of musical visualisation. The purpose of th...

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Main Author: Emmanouil Kanellos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2014-01-01
Series:Body, Space & Technology Journal
Online Access:https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/45
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spelling doaj-90c7c9d712d7480387c41b81b0f094862020-11-25T00:32:57ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesBody, Space & Technology Journal1470-91202014-01-011345Iconoclasm in Visual MusicEmmanouil KanellosFrom the earliest experimental film works to today’s contemporary and diverse use of moving image platforms, the notion of visual music is considered synonymous with abstract animation, because in part, abstract imagery is employed across the vast majority of musical visualisation. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the absence of figuration and representation in visual music can now reengage with the problematic debate of representation versus abstraction - a debate that has taken place in other art forms and movements in the past.https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/45
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description From the earliest experimental film works to today’s contemporary and diverse use of moving image platforms, the notion of visual music is considered synonymous with abstract animation, because in part, abstract imagery is employed across the vast majority of musical visualisation. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the absence of figuration and representation in visual music can now reengage with the problematic debate of representation versus abstraction - a debate that has taken place in other art forms and movements in the past.
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