February 28, 2004. Serious site cleaning after a forced move from
a simple site to a domain; my ISP of eight years went black hole
on me. All manner of link repair still in progress at this time.
Understatement - the internet has been shifting under the feet
of this site during its eight years on the web. The improvements
are too numerous to mention.
November 10, 2003. An article by Brazilian artist/researcher Sérgio
R. Basbaum entitled SYNESTHESIA AND DIGITAL PERCEPTION. Rare work that clarifies the historical and conceptual foundation
for visual music.
July 19, 2003. An essay entitled The Crevices of Audio Compression that examines the reality of musical values relative to audio
compression algorithms.
July 11, 2003. The first installment of materials from a recent
project called the Visual Music Studies DVD Series including descriptions and explanatory notes from the first two DVD volumes entitled Pythagoras & Pellegrino In Petaluma. A video excerpt, called Study 6 - Keb, of one of the 10 studies included on the first two DVD volumes.
An increase by a factory of 4 of the image size of the video excerpts available on the site.
March 7, 2002. A set of three expository posts to the Metaesthetics List on the subject of Matrix Alignment, an approach to systems analysis and communication in the electronic
arts.
February 28, 2002. During the past 9 months most of the work on
this site that previously would have gone into essays has gone
into posts to the Metaesthetics List, an international group of artists and researchers in the electronic
arts of sound and light. To follow the progress of our discussions
click here and save the URL.
April 12, 2001. The Metaesthetics List devoted to the exploration, development, and articulation of
metatheories of the electronic arts of sound and light that include
an integrative approach to music, dynamic visual art, established
technology, emerging technology, metaphysics, psychophysics, psychology,
mathematics, sociology, communications theory, ancient knowledge,
emerging knowledge, and any other related branch of human learning
and searching.
March 26, 2001. The Unison, a video excerpt from Visual Music Meditations. An example of music and imagery derived from the same set of
stereo wavetrains.
March 6, 2001. A response to an item in an iota Newsletter written by Larry Cuba (a filmmaker
and one of iota's prime movers) in reference to my essay entitled
Visual Music and the iota List .
November 11, 2000. An essay entitled Visual Music and the iota List, written after a year and a half of researching the iota list
by interacting with its subscribers, mostly filmmakers and video
animators.
September 12, 2000. A new section of the web site devoted to video excerpts of Pellegrino's visual music work. The first post is Feedback: Liquid Light.
August 28, 2000. Another set of iota exchanges covering the ideas of oscilloscopic imagery, atonality, non-linear
behavior, Mickey Mouse sync, multimodal experience, nonsense,
and tracking Glass and Reich..
August 14, 2000. An extension to the Discovering, Cultivating,
and Using Your Own Voice essay called An Instrument's Voice.
July 19, 2000. Another set of iota exchanges covering the ideas of synesthesia, mapping, symbolic logic, THE
AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES, and NTSC video.
July 17, 2000. A new set of performance-multimedia images from
framegrabs of Pellegrino's video work in a University of Wisconsin
performance in September of 1999. Thumbnail link sets are found
on the Sample Program 1 - Collaborative Event page.
July 12, 2000. An essay entitled Omnimedia On The Road drawn from experiences of taking performance-multimedia shows
on the road.
September 4, 1999. Some Coming Events for late 1999.
August 21, 1999. The iota Exchanges, a set of email exchanges from the iota discussion group on subjects
that are related to the visual music and compositional thinking sections of this site. iota is an organization dedicated to preserving
and promoting the art of light and movement.
August 15, 1999. A follow-up exchange to Playing Free of the Box, my first response to some remarks by Stephen Malinowski in reference
to issues that surfaced by way of my participation in a daylong
gathering of music visualizers on July 11, 1999.
What's New - Archive, an annotated list of postings dating back from July 27, 1999
to November 15, 1996.