Organizing the Bookcase by Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Ohlenkamp

Pioneers

Before embarking on this project I wasn't aware of Oskar Fischinger. However his name has repeatedly been referenced in the material I've viewed and suddenly I'm aware of what an influential figure he is. There's a good feature on him at http://www.tate.org.uk which explains his background and approach to the synthesis between sound and vision.

Throughout this project I've been switched on to a lot of other atists, animators, directors, designers and musicians working within this field. The Whitney brothers are another example of seminal figures responsible for combining noise and image that I similarly hadn't encountered previously. That's a bit worrying really: starting this without knowing the Whitneys and Fischinger feels like I've elected to study cubism without any prior knowledge of Braque and Picasso. And I've become aware that there's still so much more out there that I'm yet to see. With such a wealth of inspirational material I feel like I'm only just scratching the surface.




Oskar Fischinger - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (created for Disney's Fantasia) (1940)


John Whitney - Permutations (1966)


James Whitney - Yantra (1957)


John Whitney - Catalog (1961)


Harry Smith - Circular Tensions: Homage to Oskar Fischinger (1950)


Hans Richter - Rhythm 23 (1923)


Viking Eggeling - Symphonie Diagonale (1921)

Adam Brandon animation for The Album Leaf

Album Leaf Animation Test 2 from Adam Brandon on Vimeo.

I posted an earlier Adam Brandon visualization but I've since been looking at his Vimeo channel. From what I've seen it appears that he is particularly interested in visually representing sound. (For one project he attempted to create a visual notation for where silence exists.) It's certainly of interest give what I'm working on but it's even more intriguing given that he's studying in Manchester.

He also has two blogs on the go. The first is primarily touching on sound-related video at http://adams-sketchbook.blogspot.com/ while the other collects together the full range of his graphic design/communication/art direction passions at http://hello-mynameisadam.blogspot.com/.

Larry Cuba's 'Calculated Movements'

I posted Calculated Movements by the seminal Larry Cuba on the Communication Design blog a while ago. I remembered it again today as Cuba's name was mentioned in one of the books I have [within a chapter about music represented through video].

Alex Roman's 3D animation of Kahn's Library

My head is still spinning from simply trying to balance a cone on top of a cylinder in today's Virtual Worlds class. Alex Roman doesn't seem to have had the same problem as his CG animation of Louis Kahn's Phillips Exeter Academy Library clearly demonstrates.

There's more about the work via this link.