A presentation looking at the influences on those animators who created films considered as 'Visual Music'. This is a slide show of images, and needs notes. It also contains films, which are presented here as still images, you will need to look them up, possibly using Youtube/Vimeo and the respective links at the end of the presentation.

1. Visual Music
- looking for inspiration -
Oskar Fischinger: a pencil sketch, part of ‘Fantasia’ development (1936)

2. Oskar Fischinger: Motion Painting (circa 1947)

3. Oskar Fischinger - Optical Poem (1938) (Film)

4. Oskar Fischinger 'Black and Blue' 1963

5. Oskar Fischinger ‘Sound painting’ 1951

6. Oskar Fischinger 'Time Travel 1' 1949

7. Oskar Fischinger 'Time Travel 2' 1949

8. Kandinsky: Black-violet - 1923

9. Kandinsky: Composition VIII, July 1923

10. Kandinsky: Succession, April 1935

11. Kandinsky: Thirty (Trente), 1937

12. Oskar Fischinger: Allegretto (1936) (Film)

13. Len Lye: (still from ‘Rainbow Dance’ 1936)

14. Len Lye Sketchbook with notes from Totem and Taboo c. 1926-7. Ink on paper

15. Len Lye Sketchbook with notes from Totem and Taboo c. 1926-7. Ink on paper

16. Len Lye Pond People c.1930. Batik

17. Len Lye Sun Slugs and Sea Snails (For Ann Lye) 1938

18. Len Lye: Rainbow Dance (1936) (Film)

19. Len Lye: Free Radicals (1958) (Film)

20. Norman Mclaren: Still from ’Blinkity Blank’ (1955)

21. Juan Miro: the nightingale’s song at midnight and the morning rain 1940

22. Juan Miro: Dialogue of the Insects (1925)

23. Juan Miro: Landscape (1925)

24. Juan Miro: Étoile-Bleue 1927 (Blue Star)

25. Juan Miro: Dancer 1925

26. Juan Miro: Blue 2 (1961)

27. Norman Mclaren: Dots 1948 (Film)

28. Free range Hens (modern footage) (Film)

29. Norman Mclaren: Hen Hop 1942 (Film)

30. Hy Hirsh: Chasse des Touches (1959) ‘The chase of brushstrokes’. (Film)

31. John Whitney - Arabesque (1975) early computer graphics (Film)

32. Run Wrake: Music For Babies (still from...) 1996.

33. Run Wrake: Music For Babies (1996) (Film)

34. Steamboat Willie – Walt Disney/Ub Iwerks 1928 (Film)

35. Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit) Director Matt Forrest 1984 (Film)

36. El Lissitzky - Beat The Whites

37. El Lissitzky - Painting, 1922

38. Fernand Leger - 1917 Soldiers Playing at Cards

39. Fernand Leger – Disques, 1918

40. Fernand Leger – Railway crossing, 1919

41. Further Reading / watching
www.centerforvisualmusic.org
Facebook page – for ‘Center for Visual Music’
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Visual-Music/6429507219
www.iotacenter.org – Abstraction / Animation / Experimentation
www.Michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2409
(Fischinger at Disney)
www.govettbrewster.com/lenlye/lenlye.aspx
(Len Lye)
www.nfbc.ca (National Filmboard of Canada)
(Norman McLaren)
www.runwrake.com – Run Wrake
Book/s: Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art: Russett
& Starr (Da Capo Press)

42. Other selected Animators
Historical.
Jules Engels
Robert Breer
Mary Ellen Bute
John Whitney
James Whitney
Harry Smith
Today.
Tony Comley
Takashi Ohashi
Dave Daniels
Studio Ronda (Samba vid)

43. Important date: 16th Jan (Thursday)
By this date, you will need to have produced a
storyboard, to bring along to this session.
You will learn how to
turn your storyboard
into an ‘animatic’;
which is an edit of your
intended animation,
using still images and
soundtrack, to work out
timing.