VISUAL MUSIC: DISPLAY FORMATS. FULL-DOME PROJECTS. THE LANGUAGE OF A/V SPATIALISATION (original) (raw)

If the medium of cinema is born of the addition of temporality to images, new trends in digital art such as architectural mapping video projection, audiovisual (A/V) performance, and new forms of immersive scenography are adding the spatial dimension to the moving image. The latest innovations in the area of digital arts are the result of an acceleration of a trend that can be historically identified through the multiple manifestations of universal expositions. Today’s digital explosion is in fact a consequence of the democratization of instruments that control light, sound, and images through increasingly sophisticated interfaces. Avant-garde artistic approaches, with their constant push toward the dematerialization of artwork, have merged with scenographic spatialization technologies. This merger of worlds has led to new A/V performance productions that reveal the emergence of a new language, namely that of audiovisual spatialization. This language leverages the creative potential of new audiovisual instruments by combining sound and light waves with the spatial component. This paper will address this new approach based on analysis of multiple case studies.