progosk, July 13, 2008 2:45:34 PM CEST
Charlie Parker - Ko Ko (anim. George Griffin, 1988)

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.