Visual Music looking for inspiration Oskar Fischinger a

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

Oskar Fischinger: Motion Painting (circa 1947)

Oskar Fischinger - Optical Poem (1938) (Film)

Oskar Fischinger 'Black and Blue' 1963

Oskar Fischinger ‘Sound painting’ 1951

Oskar Fischinger 'Time Travel 1' 1949

Oskar Fischinger 'Time Travel 2' 1949

Kandinsky: Black-violet - 1923

Kandinsky: Composition VIII, July 1923

Kandinsky: Succession, April 1935

Kandinsky: Thirty (Trente), 1937

Oskar Fischinger: Allegretto (1936) (Film)

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

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

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

Len Lye Pond People c. 1930. Batik

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

Len Lye: Rainbow Dance (1936) (Film)

Len Lye: Free Radicals (1958) (Film)

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

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

Juan Miro: Dialogue of the Insects (1925)

Juan Miro: Landscape (1925)

Juan Miro: Étoile-Bleue 1927 (Blue Star)

Juan Miro: Dancer 1925

Juan Miro: Blue 2 (1961)

Norman Mclaren: Dots 1948 (Film)

Free range Hens (modern footage) (Film)

Norman Mclaren: Hen Hop 1942 (Film)

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

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

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

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

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

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

El Lissitzky - Beat The Whites

El Lissitzky - Painting, 1922

Fernand Leger - 1917 Soldiers Playing at Cards

Fernand Leger – Disques, 1918

Fernand Leger – Railway crossing, 1919

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. aspx (Len Lye) www. nfbc. ca (National Filmboard of Canada) (Norman Mc. Laren) www. runwrake. com – Run Wrake Book/s: Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art: Russett & Starr (Da Capo Press)

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)

Important date: 16 th 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.