Black and Light

Also in this combined programme

• Electronic Linguistics

  • exploding cinema

  In electronic linguistics, small shapes are distorted in an accelerating rhythm, like a visualisation of electronic sound.

• Moiree

  • exploding cinema

  Livinus van de Bundt was the first to build his own video synthesiser, in order to create electronic light paintings. As a result, Moirée marked…

• Illuminated Music II

  • exploding cinema

  A spontaneous jazz performance, made in a series of ‘Jazz Video Performances’, in which Beck created visual forms as a translation of jazz music.
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  Matrix III

  • exploding cinema

  In a composition of image and sound, lines are transformed into complex patterns, to emerge in a kind of visual music.
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  Sunstone

  • exploding cinema

  A series of transformations of moon/sun/face, a mythical journey. The human approach to digital technology by Emshwiller brought a new vocabulary for visualising images in…

• 3/78

  • exploding cinema

  Sixteen forms, each comprising 100 points of light, undergo a rhythmically calculated transformation. Accompanied by Japanese flute music.
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  Osaka 1-2-3

  • exploding cinema

  An uncut black & white film, a real electronic ‘time sculpture’.