Norman McLaren - Canon, 1964

Una delle realizzazioni più ricche e complesse è Canon (Canone) (1964), che include cartoni animati, animazione di sagome ritagliate, oggetti, persone e anche un gatto. Con l'abilità artigianale tipica di tutto il suo lavoro, McLaren illustra un tema che gli è particolarmente congeniale: la traduzione di forme musicali in forme visive. Nel film, McLaren descrive il canone dapprima per mezzo di cubetti alfabetici, poi mediante pupazzi animati, infine facendo marciare attraverso lo schermo un uomo, una donna e un gatto, che ripetono gli stessi movimenti (melodia) in stadi differenti.

Fonte: wikipedia.org

Walter Ruttmann - Lichtspiel Opus I, 1921

Regia di Walter Ruttmann, Musiche di Max Butting

Peter Kubelka - Arnulf Rainer, 1960

This is a film composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white, which Kubelka strings together in lengths as long as 24 frames and as short as a single frame. When he alternates between single black and white frames, a rapid flicker of motion-pictures projection; during the longer sections of darkness one waits in nervous anticipation for the flicker to return, without knowing precisely what form it will take.


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Norman McLaren - Pen point percussion

An introduction to the hand-drawn sounds of Norman McLaren. Prepared by Don Peters and Lorne Batchelor. 1951.

Oskar Fischinger, Sounding Ornaments, 1932

“Between ornament and music persist direct connections, which means that Ornaments are Music. If you look at a strip of film from my experiments with synthetic sound, you will see along one edge a thin stripe of jagged ornamental patterns. These ornaments are drawn music - they are sound: when run through a projector, these graphic sounds broadcast tones of a hitherto unheard of purity, and thus, quite obviously, fantastic possibilities open up for the composition of music in the future“.

First published in the DEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, July 8, 1932, then widely syndicated in other newspapers.

Fonte oskarfischinger.org