Pellegrino's iota Exchanges
iota, founded in 1999, is an organization dedicated to preserving
and promoting the art of light and movement by constructing a
database of information about artists (biographies) and their
works (films, videos, performances, instruments, etc.) as well
as bibliographic references (books, articles, exhibition catalogs,
etc.). Its emphasis on dynamic media such as film and video animation
makes it a relative of visual music.
The exchanges were taken from my posts during the first two years
of iota's discussion group. One approach to accessing the information
in these exchanges is to read them from beginning to end (the
long way). Given that many (but not all) subjects in the iota
Exchanges can be found in lists at the top of each page, another
approach is to use the links in those lists (much quicker). Most
of the items in the subject lists relate in one way or another
to visual music and compositional thinking.
(This paragraph was added in November 2000 after I'd completed
an essay entitled Visual Music and the iota List. Over the period of my research of the iota list (about a year
and half) I gradually became increasingly uneasy with the "flavor"
metaphor as descriptive of the various approaches taken to visual
music. It's possible that ice cream could be flavored with garlic,
artichoke, potato, basil, or even unmentionables and still be
considered an ice cream treat by some folks but common sense says
that those incongruent flavors seriously digress from the notion
of a sweet desert. Similarly the essence of visual music grows
out of the principle stated above - natural visual manifestations and invented visual representations
of musical elements and musical structures - and the more congruent the flavors are with that notion the
closer the works are to the heart of visual music. There's far
more to the field of visual music than simply combining sound
with dynamic imagery. In a nutshell the dynamic imagery should
be variously informed by the music, integrated with the music,
embody the music, and/or grow out of the music.)
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