Audiovisions. Music as an Intermedia Art Form.
Golo Föllmer Julia Gerlach

With the expansion of electronic media into ever more central positions in everyday and cultural life, music is becoming more heavily influenced by media phenomena, it makes more frequent use of media technologies for its conception and production, and it increasingly reflects the functioning and the effects of media. In the course of this development it has often been overlooked that the intermediality of music is not a consequence of the advance of technology, rather it is a phenomenon which is inherent in music itself and which is molded artistically in various ways. In line with this thesis, this essay systematically presents and examines the ways in which the avant-garde expose these essential features. Further, it explores the aesthetic relationships between visual and auditory elements within media art as well as the medial development of the concert format. [more]

Mediality and Intermediality Notation and Visuality of the Musical Performance Intermediality in Music and Fine Art Intermediality in Experimentalism Concert and Installation Problems Listening to Electronic Music Intermedial Instrumental Playing VJing in Clubs Audiovisual Transformation: The Translation Problem Synaesthesia, Analogy Space, Color, Time Electrical and Digital Transformation Technological Implications Transfer of Artistic Techniques: Montage/Collage Musical Wallpaper: Background Music The Soundtrack in Film and in Interactive Media Acoustic Interfaces The Dominance of the Image Music = Audiovision