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Scottish visual artist Florence To has been busy dressing some of London's coolest music spaces over the last while. Her installations have a physical musicality to them that’s inspired by the body.  “Every shape I create I think about the rhythm,” says Grangemouth-born, London-based artist Florence T o of the graceful installations she builds that are shaking up preconceptions of live visuals. If you’re tuned in to the electronic music scene in London or Glasgow it’s more than likely you’ll have seen her work at Boiler Room, Sub Club, Dollop, Soundcrash or Red Bull Music Academy. To’s also worked closely with producers including Shigeto and Auntie Flo to create custom installations for their live events. In fact, it was at Boiler Room last summer that I first locked eyes on To’s work: a giant abstract African mask made of different shaped screens, each one pulsing with different colours and animating in sync with Auntie Flo’s music. The visuals were mapped to each scr...

Dazzle of Fog is a collaboration of musicians, filmmakers and artists who are from or currently living in  Glasgow to create four specially commissioned pieces that delve into the artists interpretations on the relationship between sound and film in enhanced cinematic environments. The products of these collaborations wil be presented in a special evening with live events, installations and recoded media. The event will take place at Film City in Govan optimising specially adapted spaces for each of the four performances on the 29th September. Dead Island Trailer from Savalas Sound on Vimeo . Lafoden score for the Dead Island computer game Trailer The four collaborations are "Suilven" from classical composer Lafoden and film makers James Anderson and Niall Walker. The next features electronic music producer Alex Smoke with visual installation artist Florence To who will explore depths of audio visual manipulation as a live performance. Konx-Om-Pax - Pillars...