Tomato: A Contemporary Approach to Visual Music in Audio-Visual Art (Underworld)

[Dunwho]

Hi there everyone! For those of you who are new and have never seen me on here before my name is Dave, I am an Art Historian/Web Designer and Developer/Musician/DJ/Photographer/Confused person from Dublin, Ireland.

This time last year I had just completed an Undergraduate Study on Visual Music (Abstract visual representations of music) in audio-visual art, with a special focus on Tomato and Underworld. The study was restricted to 10,000 words so it is a bit brief in places as I try to cover a ton of different areas, however I am still writing about this stuff in my spare time so I may get round to continuing a more elaborate study on Tomato.

This Study contains information on Tomato's work with Underworld, primarily through their video work in the 90s and their UnderworldLive show as we know it today. It also contains an extremely detailed interview with Graham Wood in three Appendices at the end of the study (That easily doubles the word count!). In that interview are some fascinating insights into the workings of Tomato and some of Graham's own ideas and processes.

This study simply would not have been possible without his help. I'd like to thank him publicly here.

Also I would like to thank Yan, Todd, Mike, Matt and Constanza who all helped me immensely with materials and information throughout. You'll see that I thank the community too

It has been a year since I finished this study.. I think it is about time I share it with you all.

Please take note that the average reader of this study is not an Underworld fan, I am sorry if my approach may seem a bit simplistic at times however I had to approach it with a mind to total ignorance of the band on the part of the reader.

The Images document is not included due to copyright.. I have put together a Youtube playlist for the relevant Underworld Videos http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...eature=edit_ok

but you should be aware of them anyway ... pretty much any other film I mention should be available on youtube.

So here it is.. enjoy!

LINK::: http://issuu.com/daviddonoghue/docs/...olor=%23222222