Steve Gibson

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Stefan Arisona

Donna Leishman

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’s mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord in the 18th century, to the visual music of the mid-20th century, to the liquid light shows of the 1960s and finally to the virtual reality and projection mapping of the present moment, Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art and a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture – from VJing to immersive environments, architecture to design – Live Visuals also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context. This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, students, artists, designers and enthusiasts. It will particularly interest VJs, DJs, electronic musicians, filmmakers, interaction designers and technologists.

History, Theory, Practice

Live Visuals

Carter Scholz

Julian Rohrhuber

George Lewis

Golo Föllmer

Alvin Curran

Barbara Golden

Shelly Knotts

Thomas Lehn

Jon Leidecker

Gino Robair

Laetitia Sonami

This comprehensive publication depicts the work of the music collective in a historical context and serves as inspiration for a new generation of network music.

The Hub: Pioneers of Network Music

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