https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/visuals/Latest entries for the tag VisualsenFri, 15 Dec 2023 15:58:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-zan-lyons/Zan Lyons’s audiovisual pieces plunge us into unsettling interpretations of everyday life. With a first look at his new piece, Terminal, Zan explains how he prepares synchronized snippets of sound and video using key mapping and a Max for Live device – then adds panning and reverb to place sounds…Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:58:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-zan-lyons/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/visualizing-sound-a-beginners-guide-to-using-touchdesigner-with-live/An audio wheel by Bileam Tschepe showing a visual representation of the song, "Says" by Nils Frahm Throughout the history of electronic music, audiovisual art has been integral to its aesthetic identity, both in live performance settings and more recently online. As a result, ever more music makers are incorporating…Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:12:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/visualizing-sound-a-beginners-guide-to-using-touchdesigner-with-live/ArtistsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/nosaj-thing-visual-and-musical-history/When the beat scene first percolated from the Los Angeles underground, it was decidedly all about the music. A diverse array of talent, from early key figures like Daddy Kev and Ras G to high profile artists like Flying Lotus, Daedalus, and others practically pre-ordained that the music would be…Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:29:03 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/nosaj-thing-visual-and-musical-history/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/extending-live-how-three-different-artists-approach-visuals-live-performance/In a performance setting, visual expression can be just as vital to the show as the music itself. For performers who want full control over the audio and visual experience, Live can act as a bridge for both parts of the equation. While some users may already be familiar with…Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:30:11 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/extending-live-how-three-different-artists-approach-visuals-live-performance/ArtistsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/composing-infinity-max-cooper-his-new-album/Photo: Alex Kozobolis Electronic producer and visual artist Max Cooper has never lacked curiosity and ambition. By now, it’s well known that Cooper studied computational biology, and briefly worked as a geneticist at University College London. But the music bug bit him back in 2010, and Cooper fused his intellectual...Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:21:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/composing-infinity-max-cooper-his-new-album/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/junichi-oguro-3d-sounds-and-producing-visuals/In recent years the use of multi-channel surround sound systems has become ever more wide-spread. From standardized home theater systems with 5.1 channels to the much larger scales of custom-built surround sound solutions for planetariums, museums and music venues, this expansion is showing no signs of slowing down. Raising expectations...Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:34:33 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/junichi-oguro-3d-sounds-and-producing-visuals/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/free-tools-live-unlock-3d-spatial-audio-vr-ar/Envelop began life by opening a space for exploring 3D sound. Now, the nonprofit, directed by artist Christopher Willits, has released a set of free spatial sound tools you can use in Live 10. What is spatial audio? First, let’s back up. Listening to sound in three dimensions is not...Fri, 25 May 2018 09:00:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/free-tools-live-unlock-3d-spatial-audio-vr-ar/DownloadsNewshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/performing-music-with-visuals/As the digital world allows creative practices to merge more seamlessly, an important strand of music, especially in its live presentation, is visuals. We’re now in an era where you can easily find an underground festival devoted solely to audiovisual, or A/V, performances – such as LEV Festival in Spain...Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:39:35 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/performing-music-with-visuals/ArtistsLoophttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/los-guaqueros-100-years-of-sampling/In a previous edition of our Sounds in Context series we met The Meridian Brothers, a project that combines tradition and modernity in the fertile underground music scene of Bogotá, Colombia. Active within the same network of artists, producers, DJs, and diggers are Mario Galeano Toro and Mateo Rivano, both of whom have been active uncovering dusty vinyl gems and Colombia’s forgotten musical roots and reintroducing their rhythms and styles into contemporary Colombian music scene.Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:54:47 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/los-guaqueros-100-years-of-sampling/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/james-hoff-art-of-infection/James Hoff is an enterprising artist whose work with music and sound is part of a multidisciplinary practice. Based in New York, he is accomplished as a painter, with well-reviewed exhibitions in international museums and gallery spaces, and a conceptual artist whose ideas take up in the ether all around....Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:21:48 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/james-hoff-art-of-infection/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lakker-sound-and-image/Music creates images in our heads. Sounds conjure shapes and landscapes in our mind’s eye, where no ‘real’ space exists at all. So for many musicians and producers trading in spatially evocative music, it’s a natural extension to give substance to that imagined interior space. Creating a continuum between audio...Tue, 19 May 2015 08:15:47 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lakker-sound-and-image/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/max-cooper-beautiful-data/You may have not heard of the concept of emergence but it is deeply embedded in the world around us. Emergence is a force that has shaped the universe since time began and it continues to steer life as we know it. Broadly speaking, it is the process by which...Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:13:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/max-cooper-beautiful-data/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/controlling-live-oculus-rift/Virtual reality (VR) has, for many years, been a medium suggestive of a far-off future and technologies more likely found in science fiction than in real life. But the past two years have seen the possibilities of VR back in the spotlight, driven in no small part by Oculus VR’s...Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:17:19 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/controlling-live-oculus-rift/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/nicolas-bernier-frequencies-watch/Nicolas Bernier caught our attention recently with frequencies, a stark and compelling series of installations that illuminate the continuum between light and sound. Inspired by complex theorems and presented with elegant simplicity, Bernier’s award-winning works communicate powerful concepts in a direct and tactile fashion. The latest instalment in the series...Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:24 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/nicolas-bernier-frequencies-watch/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/scanner-heritage-orchestra-live_transmission/Since their untimely demise in 1980 Joy Division have cast a long shadow over the musical landscape. Their sound – a marriage of punk’s angular energy, Ian Curtis’ stark, evocative lyrics and producer Martin Hannett’s atmospheric treatments – expanded pop music’s expressive range and pointed the way to many of...Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:57:36 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/scanner-heritage-orchestra-live_transmission/Artists