As a part of my PhD research, I recently did an interview with two young independent Slovak animators, Michaela Čopíková and Veronika Obertová, who work together as a creative duo called Ove Pictures. When I studied their webpage http://ovepictures.com/ as…
Sound and Music
Neither Fischinger nor McLaren, Visual Music in a different key
by Jean Detheux • June 24, 2013 • 3 Comments
Music informs images just as images inform music. This sounds simple enough, it is a manifestation of an essential (yet often overlooked) aspect of perception, that of “sense-giving” and of “sense-receiving” (Maurice Merleau-Ponty and, of course, Edmund Husserl, did brilliant…
Animated Sound: Two Approaches (part 2)
by Aimee Mollaghan • June 17, 2013 • 3 Comments
Part two Part one of this two-part post on animated sound focused on the development of animated sound as a compositional tool. The second part of this blog post will outline a second type of animated sound, as developed by…
The Future of Visual Music
by Diana Reichenbach • June 17, 2013 • 2 Comments
My first experience with a Jordan Belson film forever shaped my own direction as an artist. From the cool, dark theater arose the rumble of ambient sound coupled with intense mixtures of color. Such depth, such motion. His ‘story’ was…
Animated Sound: Two approaches (part 1)
by Aimee Mollaghan • June 10, 2013 • 1 Comment
Part One After observing the terrified expression on the face of yet another film student as I attempted to teach to them how to use a location sound mixer, it struck me that for animation and film students accustomed to…
Optical Expression: Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and Visual Music
by Cindy Keefer • June 10, 2013 • 2 Comments
Excerpt from: Optical Expression: Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and Visual Music An Edited Guide to the Key Concerns By Cindy Keefer Oskar Fischinger is credited as the father of Visual Music, but what does this really mean? What were his…
Animated Musicals
by Richard Leskosky • June 3, 2013 • 1 Comment
Musicals and animated films, stylized and fantastical forms both, have displayed a mutual affinity since sound technology permitted their combination. Several live-action musicals have famously included animated sequences, most notably MGM’s Anchors Aweigh (1944), where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry…