Sunrise Out of Me : a multimedia work for CD-ROM

Sunrise Out of Me is a multimedia work for CD-Rom. It is in three movements lasting fourteen and a half minutes and incorporates electronic music and computer graphics. The music was composed using a Korg Wavestation EX synthesizer and Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer^™. The images were created in Adobe Photoshop^™ and then manipulated in Adobe After Effects^™ to render a movie file. The music was completed in January 2001, while the visual material was completed in July 2001. The title was inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman. This document examines the nature of musical multimedia art through history, theory, and examples of multimedia works. Five multimedia works will be discussed: Wavelines II (1979) by Reynold Weidenaar, Passage to Honor House (1986) by Kenneth Jacobs, The Wake of Boreas (1980) by Thomas B. Norris, All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis (1992) by Morton Subotnick, and Crystal (1982) by Maggie Payne.