MuVi. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music

MuVi, an acronym for Musica Visiva (“Visual Music”), is an event of the second international conference Synaesthesia: Science & Art, held from April 28th to May 1st 2007 at the Palacio de Exposiciones in Granada (Spain). The event was designed to give more perceivable, aesthesic (and synaesthetic) evidence to the theoretical topics of the conference lectures and poster presentations. The visual music is another important issue of the event. Visual Music is to be intended as any sort of kinetic audio or video repre¬sentation that springs from music. The relations between visual and auditory, as the variety of the works collected here demonstrates, can be of different nature: they can be the result of synaesthetic perceptions (visual as mental image suggested by music); the result of research on the analogies between visual and musical languages (rhythm, tone, texture, colour, etc.); they can be expressed by abstract or figurative languages not necessarily supported by a narrative plot. A call for kinetic works – an invitation to arti¬sts, musicians, designers, performers, academic authors, professors and students of universities, academies and conservatories to submit any kind of digital “moving image” or visual, audio and interactive kinetic projects – gave the opportunity to collect the works. Professors could submit either a collection of didactic projects or personal works. Students could submit one or more university projects. This catalogue collects – in the book and in the attached DVD – the works of the 23 participants divided in two groups (profes¬sionals & professors / university students), the images provided by the authors, a presentation of screenshots selected by the editors and a more wide selection of the video materials. The attached DVD includes 150 minutes of video material.