Visual Music - VR Workshop
The Visual Music – Virtual Reality Workshop brings together artists from Los Angeles (USC) and New York (IFP) to lead this 5-day creative experience with musicians, composers, sound designers and visual artists. Visual artists are welcome to introduce new ideas for creation as well as previous projects which invite musical and sonic collaboration. This workshop will also provide you with an introduction to the latest developments in VR, led by guest artist, Candace Reckinger. Participants will work together to create original works for a final screening, streamed live.
We’re looking forward to collaboration with IFP – here’s a list of some of their recent topics and events;
Is VR the new Indie Film? – We Examine how new VR opportunities are opening up for traditionally independent filmmakers and storytellers.
META.is – The Art of Being There: Why Multi-Sensory Experiences Matter, A look at how interactive experience designers are shaping the way we interact with the world.
New Innovators – Musical approach to visual storytelling: How do you compliment a piece of music visually and in what ways does this differ from other ways of filmmaking?
When There’s Smoke: An Emergent Creative Process- Lance Weiler explores his new film and interactive experience — with some surprises
BRDG- Creativity and Clients: How to Bridge the Gap, Working with clients and keeping creativity can be a challenge. The experiential studio BRDG reveals their process.
An advance look at “Scenic VR” – Get a sneak preview of works-in-progress from the innovative and freshly formed virtual reality studio.
General Outline - Roadmap
2 of the 3 tracks from “Darkside’s” playlist on the NS Soundcloud page, total more than 600,000 views. These numbers alone support the idea of inviting Dave Harrington to take part in a Music Technology Workshop. It could focus on Dave’s work or work with Dave and introduce other artists, with different aesthetics and their unique software and hardware tools for music creation and production.
• secondary schools in the NY area, can we cross over to schools like MSM, The New School, NYU, Columbia, etc. By inviting a variety of artists to lead the workshop we create a unique offering for schools like MSM…
• need to create the announcement and manage communications and enrollment, in 2 parts; one for the physical space, and a second for the online participation only (audit)
notes: VALUE of the ONLINE access: participants get to see the charts
Related Projects
Mike Patterson is a director, designer and animation artist working in visual music. His animated film Commuter, along with 7 of his music videos, are in The Museum of Modern Artʼs permanent collection.
After graduate studies with Jules Engel at CalArts, Mike was brought to the attention of record executives with his Student Academy Award-winning animated short Commuter. Employing his unmistakable drawing style, he began his career in music videos in 1985 by animating the epic MTV hit Take On Me for A-Ha. He teamed up with his wife Candace Reckinger to direct a string of MTV hits that include, Suzanne Vega’s Luka, Sting’s Be Still My Beating Heart and Opposites Attract, featuring Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat, which won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 1990. Their videos have received MTV, Billboard, MVPA, and American Music Awards, and continue to appear on top 100 music video lists.
Candace Reckinger is an artist-director specializing in hybrid media and visual music using a mix of animation and photography. Her work ventures beyond the boundaries of conventional narrative exploring the border between the figurative and the abstract, the mythic and experiential, and the tension between movement and stillness. Her inspiration emerges from myth, landscape and music. Candace currently is collaborating with composers to create immersive projected visuals for live music performance.
Is VR the new Indie Film? – We Examine how new VR opportunities are opening up for traditionally independent filmmakers and storytellers.
META.is – The Art of Being There: Why Multi-Sensory Experiences Matter, A look at how interactive experience designers are shaping the way we interact with the world.
New Innovators – Musical approach to visual storytelling: How do you compliment a piece of music visually and in what ways does this differ from other ways of filmmaking?
When There’s Smoke: An Emergent Creative Process- Lance Weiler explores his new film and interactive experience — with some surprises
BRDG- Creativity and Clients: How to Bridge the Gap, Working with clients and keeping creativity can be a challenge. The experiential studio BRDG reveals their process.
An advance look at “Scenic VR” – Get a sneak preview of works-in-progress from the innovative and freshly formed virtual reality studio.