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Shipping is included, please CHOOSE your location. ORDER ONLINE, via paypal or credit card (you don't need a paypal account). In NZ, at the shop of the Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth. Shipping: $5 US, $8 Canada, $13 internationalĪlso available in LONDON at the British Film Institute Southbank's Film Shop, and in JAPAN through Meditations, Kyoto and online. Private home use, $30 (California residents please add 8.75% tax) Produced by and (c) Center for Visual Music, 2017 Engel films restored in association with NOMI Group.ĭVD REVIEW at PopMatters: " Beauty in the Abstract - Visual Music 1947-1986"įilms are 4x3 with pillarboxing (side mattes), for 16x9 display. Meditation, Chakra, and the Dockum and Engel films were restored by CVM.
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Mandala is one of Belson’s first films to use mandala imagery, filmed from his painted scrolls, while according to Belson, Meditation is “a poetic, abstracted account of the meditational experience.” The Mobilcolor films document Dockum's instruments for composing and performing light as symphonies, and Spinello and Engel's films explore styles of hand drawn animation.Ĭontains many restored films and new HD transfers. Images from Engel's Play-Pen, Bute's Color Rhapsodieįrom Bute’s ‘seeing sound’ to Belson’s nonobjective language, Dockum’s color organ imagery, the graphic choreography of Engel’s animation, and Barry Spinello’s hand-drawn sound and images, we present a selection of Visual Music from the CVM archive.īute's Polka Graph uses Schillinger's musical notation to generate the visual complement to the soundtrack, while Abstronic uses images produced from sound using an oscilloscope. Jordan Belson: Mandala(1953), Meditation (1971) and Chakra(1972)Ĭharles Dockum: Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim (1952), Demonstration of Mobilcolor Projector ( documentary, 1966) and Mobilcolor Performance Film(1969)īarry Spinello, Sonata for Pen, Brush and Ruler (1968) Mary Ellen Bute: Polka Graph(1947), Color Rhapsodie (1948) and Abstronic(1952) "We need a new kinetic, visual art form - one that unites sound, color and form." - Mary Ellen Bute, 1936.
VISUAL MOVIES FROM 2017 ARCHIVE
Films from the archive of Center for Visual Music. Many preserved films and new HD transfers. Thirteen rare films featuring pre-computer abstraction, using a variety of techniques including early oscilloscope experiments, color organs, hand-drawn sound, animation drawn directly on film, painted scrolls, and optical printing. Images from Belson's Chakra, Bute's Polka Graph, Dockum Mobilcolor film and Belson's Mandala Visual Music from the CVM Archive, 1947-1986