Synchromy

Directed by Norman McLaren · 1971

Norman McLaren draws the soundtrack itself, sliding coloured optical sound bars onto the screen so that you literally see what you hear.

A landmark of visual music: an animation pioneer lets you see a piano soundtrack in pulsing colour.

This animated short by Norman McLaren features synchronization of image and sound in the truest sense of the word. To make this film, McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the piano rhythms of the sound tr

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