To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the emergence of abstract animation through what was known as "Absolute Cinema", in which European avant-garde visual artists such as Hans Richter, "Viking" Eggeling or Walter Ruttmann sought to expand their pictorial practices using the incipient language of the cinematograph, the first Punto y Raya workshop was held in June 2021. Organized by the Cervantes Institute at its headquarters in Warsaw, and with the collaboration of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Techniques, the Catalan animator and visual artist Aurora Gasull Altisent proposed to re-signify this beautiful practice through the eyes and hearts of hearing impaired children from the Głuchoniemych Institute in Warsaw. The participants, aged twelve to thirteen, created and performed live multiple silent pieces using a visual instrument built by Gasull and programmed in TouchDesigner: an instrument that allows the real-time generation of simple geometric shapes (triangle, circle, rectangle) that change color, size, rotation, line thickness, opacity and persistence through MiDi Korg NanoKontrol2 controllers.
Live Visual Music is the compilation of the works resulting from this workshop, which aimed to provide useful tools to this group, and thus develop a potential professional career in the field of the art of painting music (VJing) and the visualization of music and its vibration.
In short, with the aim of generating visual scores in the minds of the spectators, a group of twelve and thirteen year-old hearing impaired schoolchildren from Warsaw let themselves be guided by the Catalan animator and visual artist Aurora Gasull to animate formal and rhythmic compositions of abstract forms that move and evolve in time: silent works in which the language of cinema, light in movement, stands out.