another rare gem to file under jazzz. mov here. interview with legendary animator here.
         

While we're a it; another oldie-goldie: Len Lye "free radicals" youtube.com Ultimate masterpiece.(1932)

         

ooh - charmed me like a snake, that - thx ai. ('parently '58, tho, and it's probably lye's own '79 4min. re-edit.) now rummaging thru more lye... swinging the lambeth walk, 1939 a colour box, 1935 tusalava, extracts 1 and 2, 1929 (tho this ain't the original score, now lost) plus two commercials (!) rainbow dance, 1936 colour flight, 1939

just. wow. (can someone do a mclaren primer, plz?)

         

oh, ok, here goes norman: dots, 1948 oscar peterson - begone dull care, 1949 albert ammons - boogie doodle, 1940 maurice blackburn - blinkity blank, 1955 synchromy, 1975

         

more info than you could ever want on this school of visual music: an on-line compendium; a current nyc exhibit; an article and a time-line by prof. william moritz; the info-rich CVM site; an article by a recent epigone of the genre, bärbel neubauer; her video "feuerhaus/firehouse"; watch more recent visual music from the 2007 marathon (tho: vj-alert...).

         

few more classics: mary ellen bute's rhythm in light (1934), dada (1936), sunchromy n°4: escape (1938), tarantella, (1940) harry smith's mirror animations (1957)

         

also: salt peanuts, by marc sutherland. (bonus: his must-see birdcalls).

         

ps: forgot about another previous post: zu vs. dalek - spiritual healing.