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Have you ever heard of Norman McLaren? He’s an incredible artist and sound/animation pioneer who created this piece here. Its insane how he did it. He basically recorded images and patterns onto the soundtrack portion of 35mm film. This piece involved a set of cards representing a full range of pitch and volume which he photographed right onto the soundtrack of the film. He then photographed the soundtrack back onto the visible part of the film so that the images match the sound. Can we say crazy? And this sounds hard enough to do with even with all the supercomputers we have at our fingertips, let alone doing it sometime in the early 70s! Norman McLaren, I salute you. Peeps, enjoy. (careful; dont get any seizures while watching).

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