The Music and Visuals of Tanner/Billard
by b-ray

Dorothy Tanner and Marc Billard create the digital video art and world/electronica music that is an integral part of the Lumonics experience.

The music of Tanner/Billard is a highly original cross-cultural hybrid with influences of world music, electronic, techno, industrial, classical, and jazz. When the music is combined with their abstract multi-layered rich visualizations, using colors and forms I didn't even know existed, the effect is mesmerizing yet easy to "access" in the mind's eye, transporting you into a new universe of color and shape. How do you relax and energize at the same time? Start your DVD now...

Tanner and Billard have developed a style of music with an exotic feel; involving intriguing textures, percussive effects, world instruments and vocals. They are both deeply involved and excited by the potential that exists in today's technologically sophisticated music world. The freshness, freedom, and richness that cross-cultural music sampling affords has inspired their recent work.

Dorothy and Marc began their musical collaboration in 1990. Marc had been experimenting with computers, synthesizers and midi since 1985. For Dorothy, music composition is as comfortable as creating sculpture, finding satisfying similarities between the two modalities.

The Tanner/Billard video art is a further development of the pioneering video art form of Dorothy and Mel Tanner (d.1993), beginning in 1978, and is rooted in the live visual performances that have taken place in the Lumonics Light and Sound Theatre, beginning in 1969.