Electronic Visual Music: The Elements of Audiovisual Creativity

Electronic Visual Music is a comprehensive guide to the composition and performance of visual music, and an essential text for those wanting to explore the history, current practice, performance strategies, compositional methodologies and practical techniques for conceiving and creating electronic visual music.

Beginning with historical perspectives to inspire the reader to work creatively and develop their own individual style, visual music theory is then discussed in an accessible form, providing a series of strategies for implementing ideas. Including interviews with current practitioners, Electronic Visual Music provides insight into contemporary working methods and gives a snapshot of the state of the art in this ever-evolving creative discipline.

This book is a valuable resource for artists and practitioners, as well as students, educators and researchers working in disciplines such as music composition, music production, video arts, animation and related media arts, who are interested in informing their own work and learning new strategies and techniques for exploration and creative expression of electronic visual music.

《電子視覺音樂》是一本全面指南，介紹了視覺音樂的創作和表演，對於那些希望探索歷史、現行實踐、表演策略、作曲方法論以及構思和創作電子視覺音樂的實際技巧的人來說，這是一本必讀的書籍。

從歷史的角度出發，激發讀者的創造力，發展自己獨特的風格，然後以易於理解的形式討論視覺音樂理論，提供一系列實現想法的策略。《電子視覺音樂》還包括對當前從業者的訪談，提供了對當代工作方法的深入了解，並展示了這個不斷發展的創意學科的最新狀態。

這本書對於藝術家和從業者來說是一個寶貴的資源，同時也適用於音樂作曲、音樂製作、視頻藝術、動畫和相關媒體藝術等學科的學生、教育工作者和研究人員，他們有興趣瞭解自己的工作並學習探索和創造電子視覺音樂的新策略和技巧。

Dave Payling is an audo-visual artist based in Staffordshire UK. His compositions have been performed at events including ICAD: Sydney Opera House, ICMC: Shanghai and Understanding Visual Music: Brasilia. He is a section editor for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.

Dave Payling 是一位位於英國 Staffordshire 的視聽藝術家。他的作品曾在包括 ICAD: 悉尼歌劇院、ICMC: 上海和 Understanding Visual Music: 巴西利亞等活動中演出。他是《Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture》的一位編輯。