Visual Music at GOMA_

Date 30th April 2008
The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is presenting the exhibition program Visual Music. The cinematic genre of Visual Music draws on elements of form, colour and rhythm in music and images to create visual symphonies. Working with abstraction and figuration, gesture, pitch, beat and palette, filmmakers have explored the dynamism of sight and sound synaesthesia -- hearing colour and line, seeing rhythm and tone -- through innovative techniques and aesthetics. The Australian Cinémathèque's Visual Music program includes an extraordinary range of approaches to this genre, from the Silly Symphonies, early Walt Disney musical animations, to retrospective programs of visual music pioneers, selections of rarely screened classics and contemporary works. This enduring and influential field of filmmaking counts among its leading practitioners such unique voices as Oskar Fischinger, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, James and John Whitney, Jordan Belson, Bärbel Neubauer and Mary Ellen Bute. Cindy Keefer from the Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles will host a comprehensive discussion with screenings of Jordan Belson (Saturday 3 May, 3pm) and will introduce the Mary Ellen Bute (Friday 2 May, 6pm) and Rare Classics (Sunday 4 May, 3pm) sessions. Entry to film programs is free. For film notes and screening details visit the Gallery website. Visual Music is on at GoMA until 1 June, 2008.

Websites

http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/cinematheque/current_programs/visual_music

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