@@FrancLusaite Sounds a bit like "Oramics"; that's what Daphne Oram called her process at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 50s. Basically writing optical waveforms directly on to film and scanning these via a photodiode/resistor.
see above: "These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. "
its exceedingly common for common distribution versions of old film works like this to have been transferred to tape in the late 1970s thru the 90s- Umatic if early and betacam if late. these are the result of early "backup" copies. part of this push was also for use in television, as systems had been using reel to reel video formats for years instead of the older film method. this is also a common practice for video early adopter super 8 and slide photo shooters in the 1980s and 1990s while the 2nd wave of film was picking up and super 8 remained a popular film home distribution method, even being edited down. you may see your family movies that were shot on super 8 and then your grandpa or whomever pointed the projector and a camera at the same spot on a wall (or used the fancier transfer equipment available) and put a record on in the background. you see a lot of underground animators and other filmmakers do it too.
@@SnepperStepTV Wow, you brought me back to this video 7 years later with your comment! I'm glad to report that actually a lot of my own art practice now includes that process of transferring between media, specifically inspired by family films recorded on 8mm and super 8, later transferred to a VHS, later digitized. I'm proud to say that I'm very much part of that experimental film scene now. Thank you so much for your thoughtful and informative response! Cheers!!
@@idkkidkk2445 It tries to directly and automatically transform 12 tone music to animation. They developed their own machines, including a pendulum, an optical printer and created the sound through the visuals of the pendulum. Pretty inventive and also charged their ideas with New Age theory from atoms, the Fourth dimension and Yoga teachings. Read a book if you don't understand ;) It's mesmerizing and impressive. You don't have to follow their ideas, but you understand how they found their shapes. Also it HAD an influence on Disney, as he asked people of their circles to do Fantasia. If you don't understand stuff, why don't you transform your energy of rejection into curiosity? There is so cool stuff to learn out there.
I can't believe that this is 80 years old!
Here I got one for you to decrypt:
Miles Davis PHARAOH'S DANCE
ruclips.net/video/2ZIqcq-OBeM/видео.html
This is actually so amazing. Genius. Beautiful.
Love the scratchy soundtrack 🎉 ASMR!
these computer where serious drugs when they where invented in the 1940s
This is too cool
this is sensational
very a head of their time!
Great. Im off to find out more about how the sounds were produced.
what did you find out?
@@DFox1128 They used some kind of pendulum to write a curve which they then translated into sound. I'd love to figure out how that process was like.
@@FrancLusaite Sounds a bit like "Oramics"; that's what Daphne Oram called her process at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 50s. Basically writing optical waveforms directly on to film and scanning these via a photodiode/resistor.
@ ouuu sounds amazing! ✨
@ ah shit ya I know these! Didn’t know they were drawn onto film!
The new Harry Smith biography is great.
30 years ahead of Kraftwerk
3:25 : LOL the backward music.
Is this public domain?
nope
It's just slightly irritating that the sound isn't synced in this recording :(
the audio is off by about 2 seconds
Does anyone know what this was filmed with? Looks like video tape but even the precursors to tape started later in the 50s....
or maybe this is just a tape recording of the original...?
see above: "These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. "
It was shot on film....
But WE are watching a vhs print
its exceedingly common for common distribution versions of old film works like this to have been transferred to tape in the late 1970s thru the 90s- Umatic if early and betacam if late. these are the result of early "backup" copies. part of this push was also for use in television, as systems had been using reel to reel video formats for years instead of the older film method.
this is also a common practice for video early adopter super 8 and slide photo shooters in the 1980s and 1990s while the 2nd wave of film was picking up and super 8 remained a popular film home distribution method, even being edited down. you may see your family movies that were shot on super 8 and then your grandpa or whomever pointed the projector and a camera at the same spot on a wall (or used the fancier transfer equipment available) and put a record on in the background. you see a lot of underground animators and other filmmakers do it too.
@@SnepperStepTV Wow, you brought me back to this video 7 years later with your comment! I'm glad to report that actually a lot of my own art practice now includes that process of transferring between media, specifically inspired by family films recorded on 8mm and super 8, later transferred to a VHS, later digitized. I'm proud to say that I'm very much part of that experimental film scene now. Thank you so much for your thoughtful and informative response! Cheers!!
I would name this Music For The Internet
Reminds me of earthbound
wow
Interesting
Im on L watching this, feels like my heads in a microwave
This is just like windows screen saver which instead it was created 80 years ago
I don't think Disney animators were very impressed.
May be because Disney thinks only about money first and not real Art ?
@@norik9910 and tell me how tf is this art? i love avant-garde but this has no sense at all.
the music is cool tho
@@idkkidkk2445 It tries to directly and automatically transform 12 tone music to animation. They developed their own machines, including a pendulum, an optical printer and created the sound through the visuals of the pendulum. Pretty inventive and also charged their ideas with New Age theory from atoms, the Fourth dimension and Yoga teachings. Read a book if you don't understand ;) It's mesmerizing and impressive. You don't have to follow their ideas, but you understand how they found their shapes. Also it HAD an influence on Disney, as he asked people of their circles to do Fantasia. If you don't understand stuff, why don't you transform your energy of rejection into curiosity? There is so cool stuff to learn out there.
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You people pay to get in and shows already over.
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