Visual Music from iota, Volume One is a compilation of contemporary work contributed by members of iota’s email discussion group. This collection reflects the variety and complexity of contemporary artists working in Visual Music and abstract animation. Includes works by Andrew D. Lyons, Michael Betancourt, Michael Mantra, Emile Tobenfeld, Mavie Cahn, Nancy Herman, Bill Alves, Beth Warshafsky, and Rey Parla.

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	Loucid directed by Andrew Lyons USA, Animation, 2001, 00:05:30 a 3D animation that was completed entirely within the Houdini 3D animation software. Unlike the artist's previous work, Schwarzchild, Loucid dealt with the imaging of live instrumentation rather than midi ins... more info
	Radio-Activity directed by Michael Betancourt USA, 2004, 00:04:45 Radio-Activity [2004] is a three movement video that was inspired by and uses plasmawave telemetry sent back to Earth by NASA's Cassini mission and made into sound by Dr. Donald Gurnett at the University of I... more info
	Look Out (he's got a knife) directed by Michael Betancourt USA, 2002, 00:02:30 Look Out (he's got a knife) [2002] explores some aspects of the abstract film tradition. It examines the rhythmic and visual possibilities of editing using an existing piece of music composed in 1995 created ... more info
	Pew directed by Michael Mantra USA, Music, 2003, 00:08:44 A music video for an ambient track called View. View is from the album Forest on the Mountain Within album. Michael Mantra, Marco Upp, and John Now recorded this album in 1989 and the album was released on th... more info
	FMW 02 directed by Michael Mantra USA, Music, 2003, 00:08:04 An experimental music video for an ambient track called Forest on the Mountain and this track is from the album Forest on the Mountain Within album. Michael Mantra, Marco Upp and John Now recorded this album ... more info
	Tranquility and Stimulation directed by Emile Tobenfeld USA, Music, 2004, 00:08:52 recorded live in concert with the Lothars, an improvising electro-acoustic band based in the Boston area. The title describes my reaction when viewing the work when I selected it for this compilation. I perfo... more info
	Prisims directed by Mavie Cahn USA, 2004, 00:02:34 inspired by the Art of Light and Movement. Mavie investigates the rays of light that pass through the leaves of an Oak tree one fall afternoon in Woodstock, New York. The result is an apparition of a series o... more info
	Greyhound directed by Mavie Cahn USA, 2004, 00:03:27 a symphony of moving lights, lines, and constantly changing abstract and recognizable images juxtaposing human and structural elements, while invoking a mysterious world connected to ours but different from i... more info
	What Might Have Been directed by Nancy Herman USA, Music, 2004, 00:02:24 a stab at trying to imagine what a visual music instrument that could be played in real time might look like. This color music would develop an emotional response in the viewer as a result of one color follow... more info
	Aleph directed by Bill Alves USA, 2002, 00:09:32 Inspired largely by the geometric patterns of Islamic art, an art derived from the same proportions and numerical symbolism as the tuning systems of the ancient Greeks and Byzantines. In the music I have adop... more info
	Anthrodance Variation #3 directed by Beth Warshafsky USA, 2004, 00:03:00 one of an on-going project using motion capture data to create experimental animations. The work is based on dance movement choreographed and performed by Beth Warshafsky and Ellen Scott at Siggraph. The moti... more info
	Sporadic Germination directed by Rey Paria USA, 1994, 00:04:40 Sporadic Germination began as a "pure accident." It started as a documentary I was shooting on my brother Jose Antonio Parla's painting process. My brother and I have been involved with "writing" (a.k.a. graf... more info

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2006-08-25  Educational Media Resources Online By Reviewed by Brad Eden, Ph.D., Head, Web and Digitization Services, University Libraries, University Highly Recommended This is one of the most fascinating and enjoyable items I have ever had the opportunity to review. It is a compilation of 12 compositions/theater pieces/art works by 12 different artists. From explorations of 3D animation with music, to meditation-like musical and theatrical movements, to photographic negatives or movies combined with sound and/or color, this DVD is an exploration and experimentation of music, art, theatre, technology, sound, and creativity all rolled into one. Just a neat DVD to put into your player, sit back, and enjoy the ambience and creative energy.

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