AV Brush

Kenny Kyungmi Kim

Fall 2006

Concept

• AV Brush is Visual Music Brush.

• Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900

• AV Brush is a new drawing tool as well as

instrument.• Fine art should attain the abstract purity

of music.

Background

• www.visualmusic.org• www.centerforvisualmusic.org• www.nime.org• Project & Product < sponsored by the Korean Ministry of

Information and Communication, 1998-1999 > * Cyber Visual Music Library * AV Visualizer - SoResVi

* AV Composer

Reference : I/O Brush SoundFonts

Broom vs Brush

• Sweeping vs Painting

Visual & Sound

• Wassily Kandinsky <Concerning the Spiritual in Art>

Orange - Viola

Yellow - Trumpet

Bright Blue - Flute

Green - Violin

Red - Tuba

Drawing Listening

AV ComposerSchema

Coordinate

analysis

Frequency mapping

Time Mapping

Mixing soundimage

AV Brush-Visualization

• Max/Msp(Jitter) - Sound Font

Each background color correspond with specific instrument sound.

Drawing correspond with frequency.

AV Brush - picking up

• Let’s make sound woods