Cycles. Perfect geometric shape and the basic order of nature. In the film, the metamorphosis of the most essential cycle is subdivided into four phases and sensualised using different material and surface structures.

The piece won one of the thirteen Visual Music Awards in 2011.

MadVeH7 is a visual music project by Tom Vermaaten. Music from the forecourt of hell - noise from our non-natural environment in complicated 7/4 time. Visualised by images of hecticness and imbalance and stylised by a single major crescendo. This scenario is set in a city which a fundamentalist priest once named the forecourt to hell.

What is actually behind a single short music excerpt? Julian Klapp embarks on the search with a playful and experimental approach. The image serves as a resource for his method and to clarify the musical relationships. As a result something is produced that is more than the sum of its parts. The visual music clip was submitted as a Video 1 exam for Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

As part of the Visual Composition and Rhythm course by IMM assistant professor Christian Schäfer, music visualisation in the form of notation systems outside of our traditional European notation system is addressed. Alternative music notations of visual artists and musicians were examined, such as the music visualisations and notation of the musician Anthony Braxton or the collection Notations put together by John Cage.

As a practical exercise the students each drew a piece of music in a lottery process. This was to be visualised graphically – without using our conventional note or writing system. The notes resulting from this were passed on without music, title or other indications of the piece to another participant who then recorded their interpretation of the notation. The track that was produced in this way was given a title and was in turn passed on for another participant to visualise – this time in the form of a cover.

The aim of the Music Visualisation in the Silent Picture courses as part of the major Visual Music was to design posters for a music event. The students used this opportunity to initiate and implement an actual event under the guidance of IMM assistant professor Christian Schäfer. As part of the platform for new talent, Cologne Music Week, they presented their Visual Music evening on 19 January 2011 in the bar Zum Scheuen Reh in Cologne's Westbahnhof. 

Fabian Schulz alias Faboo, Elektronikfachgeschäft with IMM students Michael Hohnstock, Florian Breuer and Lukas Truniger, and Cologne's young local hero Thomas Meckel played live sets. IMM assistant professor Marc Matter - as DJ of Duesseldorf's Salon des Amateurs bar also known by the name Mr. Mueck - supported the evening as a DJ. In addition visuals were created by Tim Gorinski, student of the Academy of Media Arts, and IMM student Milan Schell.

The multi-channel sound sculpture with projection mapping Paketzentrum 47 was inspired by investigations into the origin, manufacture and material composition of a laptop. In this process the starting elements of the work were found: packaging material of entertainment electronics, images of the raw materials that are required to manufacture a laptop, and the recordings made by a mini-recorder that was forwarded in continuous operation.

The work was conceived, designed, composed and programmed by Lukas Truniger, student of the Music and Media bachelor progam. The sculptures were developed together with Katharine Hauke, student of the Communication design diploma program at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. For the technical implementation of the projection mapping and the multi-channel sound, a specialist system in the programming environments SuperCollider and Max/MSP was developed. The documentary clip of the installation was realised by IMM students Julian Martinz and Björn Mauder.

The work was produced as part of the majors Visual Music under Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski and Music Informatics under Prof. Julian Rohrhuber and Hannes Hölzl.

In this lecture, as part of the module Sensory Development, students of the second semester visualize music on paper to the music of composers from the second half of the 20th century. Supervision: Prof Dr. Heike Sperling.

fear:love is an audiovisual installation by Gerrit Kress, which deals with the two emotions of fear and love. It reveals the human emotional centre: an inner core that houses the respective emotion, intergrown with a system consisting of sending and receiving arms which facilitate communication between body and soul. By means of projecting moving images onto a 3-dimensional object, light design and 4.1 surround sound, the viewer of fear:love experiences a new perspective on emotions. fear:love was produced as a Video 2 exam for Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski. The work was exhibited in the tanzhaus nrw (NRW dance house) as well as in the Institute For Music And Media of the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf.

The piece won one of the thirteen Visual Music Awards in 2011.

Hemisphere is a visual music project by Stephan Telaar. The clip addresses the conflict between emotionality and rationality. The golden ratio was used as the central design medium. The music was produced in collaboration with Lukas Truniger.

Hemisphere was produced as part of the major Visual Music 2 which is supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

Using real-life examples, the course Typography, Visual Composition, Layout given by IMM assistant professor Christian Schäfer in the two Bachelor courses of Music and Media as well as Audio and Video, discusses the principles of design.

These principles are internalised through practical and experimental work as well as in discussions about design. The goal is to improve the ability to assess design and the representation of ideas and requirements.

The students learn how and why music and design communicate with each other and how they complement each other in the best way. The use of typography, colour and images is applied in practical work using pieces of music chosen by the students themselves. Here is a small selection of the designs created during the 2010/11 winter term.

Synse is an iPhone App which combines music and sound-related visuals to make an interactive, audiovisual experience. It was designed and implemented by IMM student Christian Sander as part of his Video 2 exam for IMM professor Dr. Heike Sperling and IMM assistant professors Tristan Thönnissen and Maximilian Marcoll.

Synse has won competitions including kurzundschön in 2009 in the Mobile Miniatures category. Christian Sander also presented this concept at the c'n'b convention 2009 as part of Campus Spotlight.

Synse is available from iTunes and includes three audiovisual sets. The set FLUID is based on a visual music clip by IMM student Gerrit Kress.

The visual music clip Rapid Eye Movements by IMM students Benjamin Simon (director and editing) and Thomas Orr (music and software programming) was one of the prize winners at the Visual Music Award 2010 event. The clip, which takes the form of a multiscreen installation, was created in the scope of the Audio and Video Engineering program under Dr. Karin Welkert-Schmitt, professor at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. The eyes that appear in the clip are those of 21 IMM students, friends and staff and were filmed in the IMM TV studio.

This Visual Music clip by Felix Rösch was created for the Video 1 exam with Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

The video is a production of sevra&stas (Severin Schultze & Alex Cremer) for the Cologne techno label My Best Friend (Traumschallplatten). It is part of a visual music clip series created specially for the label and published on the label's own YouTube channel digital. The clips are produced live to the music.

Created for the Video 2 exam with Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Mariko Takagi.

Frequenzen (Frequencies) is a concept work in which the colour of a visual element is defined by layering the colour frequency spectrum on top of the sound frequency spectrum. The clip by Christian Sander was animated with pieces of paper using stop motion technique, accompanied by Sander's own house-style acoustic compositions. The work also explores the close ties between audio and visual parameters through the use of effects on both media planes.

Created as an examination work for the Video 2 exam with Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Maximilian Marcoll.

"Great town, where is your face? I am cold in your arms..." - a film by Philipp Polzin on the town, the people who live in it, its places and squares... A look away from the tourist tracks, directed at the soul. This visual music clip was produced as the Video 1 exam supervised by professor Dr Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

Everyone has a vague image in their head when they hear music. An image which, for them, suits the music. Likewise people link vague music with considered images. Is it really preassigned like this? Do we all make the same connections? And what happens if this familiarity suddenly ceases to exist? A visual music clip by Manfred Borsch, produced as part of the Video 1 exam for professor Dr Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

PROJEKT O is the title of two concerts, which are being performed as part of the diploma project Live visuals in the context of classical music by Caroline Bergmann and You-Jin Chang in the Partikasaal of the University of Music Duesseldorf. The letter "O" (as the French word eau) reveals that the project is concerned with the subject of water.

Sixty seconds in the minute, sixty minutes in the hour, twenty-four hours in the day, seven days in the week, four weeks in the month, twelve months in the year, many years in life. A visual music clip by Uli Kohlmann, produced as the Video 1 exam for professor Dr Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

As the topic for his Video 2 exam Michael Ochs chose the redesign of his own portfolio page. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling, Tristan Thönnissen and Mariko Takagi, and together with the designer Stella Janina Bittner and the programmer Ivo Meißner, he developed an entirely new concept and as a result was able to emphasis the new content arrangement by creative means.

Design and style combine at an obscure location to produce music through movement and light through music. A visual music clip by Lukas Vogel. It was the result of the Video 1 exam with Prof Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski in February 2009.

A neuronal network is more than the sum of its parts. Visual music clip by Michael Eßer in ASCII art style. It was the result of the Video 1 exam with Prof Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

For his Video 2 exam in the subject area of Digital Visual Media taken with Prof Dr. Heike Sperling, Jonathan Hoffmann designed his portfolio website together with Jon Adrie Hoekstra. With his illustrations and the lettering drawn by himself, Jonathan Hoffmann has created an independent and distinctive image. The website was programmed by Ivo Meissner, also a student at IMM.

A visual music clip by Rebekka Schaufelberger. It was produced as part of the Video 1 exam Visual Music taken with Prof Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski in February 2009.

Four short animated films were produced as part of the three-day workshop 25 Pictures Every Second with Eric Bernaud. The task was to create a clip on the subject of time. Nine students in total from IMM took part. The workshop was part of the subject area of Digital Visual Media of Prof Dr. Heike Sperling and took place January 2009.

As part of his Video 2 exam, IMM student Norbert Krause, together with Eva Pauli, design student at the University of Applied Sciences in Duesseldorf, designed the artwork of the debut CD of his German pop band Norbert Transport. For the special edition entitled gut., which was limited to 100 copies, a new packaging concept was developed that consciously avoided current formats such as the jewel case and was also made by hand. A further component of the artwork are ten postcards which add a visual component to each of the ten tracks. Norbert Krause, singer and guitarist with Norbert Transport, composed the music, wrote the song lyrics and also produced the entire album. The work was supervised by IMM professor Dr. Heike Sperling and former IMM assistant professor Mariko Takagi.

In the three-day workshop Visualize Music! 3 + 1 Cover with Christian Schäfer and IMM professor Dr. Heike Sperling, eight students from IMM and the Design department of the University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf presented their three favourite covers and designed a cover themselves for their current favourite music. As a restriction the students blindly selected three scraps of paper, were not allowed to use any computers and were able to select between Letraset, stamps and their own handwriting for the typography. The eight covers were created by Lila Dornhof, Markus Göddertz, Katharina Hauke, Tom Heckmann, Stefanie Hilker, Anika Lehnen, Jörg Plewe and Lukas Truniger.

The video is a cut down of a live set by IMM students Severin Schultze and Michael Wirtz (monokompatibel). Fellow student Manuel Glowczewski was in charge of the visuals. The piece was shot at TV studio 1 at the IMM.

Animation in arcade-style by Christian Epe. What does Space sound like? And how about a space-ship? Of the silence in Space, featuring trashy jumps through Space and time, finally ending in Game Over. Produced as a Video 1 exam with Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski in February 2008.

A film by Christian Frentzen. Sounds and pictures melt into each other, sound and rhythm cause the flow of the moving pictures and the other way around. The film was cut out of digital photos. Music and sound were produced afterwards. Produced as a Video 1 exam with Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski in February 2008.

IMM student Sebastian Krüger's portfolio website won the Mowsnet Silver Award. The site was created as a Video 2 exam with IMM professor Dr. Heike Sperling.

Breakfast scenario: Everything seems normal. Apart from the egg - possibly industrial. The short film by Thomas Orr features special sound sensations by using unusual and unnatural volume levels and "misplaced" sounds.

Produced as a Video 1 exam supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

Nature sometimes goes strange ways. It has to compete with pounding technology. This work is based on digital photography only. Some sounds were afterwards added to the pictures, or the editing was based on the music's rhythm. A film by Maurice Braun, who won the Visual Music Award 2007 for this sound- and video composition.

Produced as a Video 1 exam by Professor Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski in Feburary 2007.

Stop-Motion-Film by Hannes Marget. Produced as a Video 1 exam under Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.

Compilation of small experiments made in Eric Bernaud's 25 pictures every second! workshop. The instructor is from Marseilles. Students Maurice Braun, Stephanie von Fragstein Cornelius Heidebrecht, Hannes Magret, Benjamin Simon and Miriam Voth were involved into the project. The workshop took place within the Digital Visual Media field.

IMM students Caro Bergmann, You-Jin Chang, Simone Fuchs, Kaling Khouw, Beate Meinert and Sabrina Skoda contributed video projections, lighting design and technical direction to the Melodrama-Showcase. Director: Jürgen Hartmann. Musical Director: Prof. Thomas Leander.

The video projections for the show were produced in the Live Visuals Programme instructed by Ulla Barthold (Camera and Lighting) and Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling (Digital Visual Media).

Lorenz Rhode finished his portfolio website. The site was a final project in the Video 2 exams, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling, Digital Visual Media. Mr. Rhode publishes funk- and sythesizer-heavy house productions and remixes. His last publication was a Realbase Recordings remix The Rhythm Slaves-Shine on too.

Visualisation of a melodrama is based upon Franz-Kafka-Fragment. It circles around the human resignation facing the conflict of self-awareness and the misconception of the existence by the environment. Produced as a live-projection for actors and a pianist.

Music: Ulrich Kreppein, visuals: You-Jin Chang.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling, Digital Visual Media, and Ulla Barthold, Camera and Lighting.

Multiscreen video installation Cocoon - A multiscreen Exprience of Duesseldorf promotes Düsseldorf's image as a university city internationally. Cast: Markus Wilharm, edited and directed by Tobias Kavelar, music: Martin Schnucker.

Created in the Audio an Video Egineering program, as the final year project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling, Digital Visual Media.