This was a bit of a journey! First it started with me looking up Kid Koala‘s music videos, and being very charmed bythe tactile abstraction and simplicity of this one:
Which led me to look up the animation studio he had worked with, See Creature, and start poking around their portfolio of beautiful things:
…wherein I discovered this gorgeous abstract video, “Reflection”:
…and of course I HAD to watch that! and I loved it so very much!
Here’s the single window version:
And here’s the triptych, which contains its own amazing decisions regarding integrating three panes. Wish I could have seen this in person!
I love music videos, music animation, and especially abstract music videos! In history of animation in undergrad I remember learning about Oskar Fischinger’s interwar-period abstract animations, and how they led into Fantasia’s Bach sequence. mercifully there’s a beautiful scan of his Optical Poem on youtube these days!
Looks like Fishinger’s work is being archived at the Center for Visual Music in LA, another rabbit hole I absoLUTEly will be going down in future:
While I know synaesthesia has a specific clinical meaning, it’s been a term I’ve really found useful to apply to multimedia realtime art – video, dance, games, theatre – to describe the particular effect of temporal unity in visual and auditory work. It’s not the only measure of combing sound and vision! But it feels to me to be similar to visual compositon and musical rhythm or mode – it’s an overall aspect that can build all sorts of emotional responses without necessarily dictating content whatsoever. I love to see it on display for its own sake, the same way I love to see a painting distilling its compositional choices down to one big bold simple statement.
Anyways, thought these were all lovely enough to share!
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