Synchromy

[andros1984]

This reminds me of when my Atari 2600 glitched out back in the day.

[hitthatperfectbeat]

crazy that not only the pictures, but the sound as well was drawn by Mclaren.

[teknotribes]

Just saw this film projected in a theatre last night! Mindblowing!

[superchat9000]

@teknotribes you're lucky! I'd love to see this in a cinema & lots of McLaren's other films

[LxrKan]

nine deaf people watched this video

[mynameisannmary]

best :.x :D

[oalternativo]

A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Music and animation are fantastic. A perfect match.

And it did remind me of my old Atari...

[OttoWessely]

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz......

[00cm]

Damn, I squished Frogger again! :(

[TheTavo1980]

Traslate: Al principio, esa muestra me parecía muy extraña, ademas de esos sonidos de video juego, pero es una maravilla animada.

Felicidades Norman Mc laren. R.I.P

Synchromy, National Film Board of Canada, Copyright 1971

[CartCollector]

@TheTavo1980 From the beginning, this show seemed very strange to me, and it sounds like a video game as well. But it is a marvelous animation.

All the best, Norman McLaren. R.I.P.

[poughkeepsiejohn1]

I've always believed that short films can be---and often ARE---better than most full-length movies. Here's a great example of that. McLaren was one trippy dude!

[carlosgonzalezhidalg]

Muy, muy bueno, yo se que los que saben de acústica y armonía lo van a entender mejor

[luxmovingimage]

We are the official distributors of Norman McLaren's works and you can learn more about him in the artists section on the LUX homepage.

We look forward to finding out more about your work and opinions!

[plasticspaces]

I remember watching a copy of this alone on16 mil in a little screening room at Langara Collage, my first year of art school. At the time I picked by a short description in a catalog. This film changed the way I thought about light, sound, animation and painting.

[diskochimp]

Wow, it's a real cliche to say this, but... seeing this stuff again takes me back to when I was a kid...

[kathaluna]

makes me feel tipsy.

[zzzofiooo]

great!!!!!! jeje eee jee eejj eejjj e!!

[hotelmario510]

The beginning sounds like a game of Pong gradually going insane.

[bhc]

top

[juanacasas]

¡Toma, ya! ¡Hipnótico y adictivo!

[torch3]

It reminded me of the movie "Close Encounters of the  Third Kind."

[Mazurka1001]

Oh, yeah, when they communicate with the starship...LOL...

[ninawillams]

this would be amazing experience if lit up on a ceiling of some hall den de music played and echoed around u

[rowanrockhopper2]

this was performed in stirling, in a huge theatre, with the visuals projected, and the sound all around ...it was like an other world :)

[slaineroland]

bon film 2:13

[tt2547]

it's like an addiction......just can't get enough of this!!!

[MASSATX]

Beautiful!

[RedRussia60]

2:27 has the dig dug song when your about to lose

[JunianoUY]

lol yeah haha i thought the same

[illuminatioracle]

no whammy....no whammy...no whammy...STOP!

[thedemiLO]

He also created the music by drawing images to be inserted in the sound tract. He ended up with six "synthetic" octaves which he composed this film entirely of.

[vfnk]

so, so awsome

[flosstweed]

epileptics beware....

[anth427]

hmmmi find this to be shit... to be precise

[bludeco]

disturbing and yet interesting though

[theratking]

4:53 - 5:19 reminded me of the video game 'spy hunter' for some reason.

[photosynthetics]

McLaren's color palette at 5:32-5:53 is amazing! I want to replicate it on a 4'x3' wall mount, and make the far left brown bar a nice dark piece of walnut wood grain. It would look beautiful.

[missesmia2]

Moogish...

[rickbmtl]

no moog, just a simple apparatus to print music on the soundtrack with rectangles. the fil is what you hear except that it has been colorized and multiplied

[rickbmtl]

Mc Laren explored many schools of modern art, in this case it was Op Art , not Pop Art but both very much from the same time, so this the same school as Vasarely or Bridget Riley but in this particular case very close to Yacov Agam so, not only a bunch of square but something that wants to play with retina as was the case with this artistic movement.

[ULTRADEATHRAINBOW]

i feel dizzy this is so brilliant iforgot to go to bowling camp watching this cool vid

[TheF25key]

bowling camp? lol

[missesmia2]

Yeah this gave me a sore throat during camp too!

[badgothnobiscuit]

it's a bunch of squares.

[Fsbof90]

Mostly rectangles actually.

[thedemiLO]

perhaps the excitement is in the technique; this was done without the use of any computers. Just scratching and coloring on film and drawing on the sound track.

[Fsbof90]

My comment was a reply to an earlier post, I don't find this film any boring myself. Stupid Youtube doesn't always put the replies under the post... A problem that's getting quite annoying...

[CSGraves]

Yep, must have been a grueling task, but McLaren was a genius for such things. The ultimate music video... the music IS the video!

[IxCloudxIx]

THIS IS AMAZING.

seriously how did he do this?

[beergnome]

essentially? its all painted by hand on the raw film stock, visuals and audio data. then run through a optical printer to combine the audio with the visual. this film is from 1971, so I'm going to assume the audio playback device is a moog of some sort

[rickbmtl]

The visual IS the music|! Yes Mc Laren discovered that he could draw his soundtrack, then later he developed a machine using those blocks to, more less have a film synthetizer, no Moog there. So what you see is what you hear, except at a few places where he did some editing. And of course multiply the soundtrack with the optical printer because nobody would look at it plain and simple for a long time.

[beergnome]

oh, absolutly! I find this piece just... an expresion of modern abstract art.. on film.. the only reason I mention a moog because of the tone sounds being generated are very... moogish... but yes.. all the sounds are hand drawn to the visuals.. sorry.. the visual track and the audio track are still seperate.. it's the confines of the media....

wait..never mind.. I get it now.. it's all square waves and completly possible with an optical printer.

[PpsychoJOhnny]

brilliant

[mattheus59]

c'est absolument superbe ....

a passer tout les matins au réveilpour se mettre en forme ...

[missesmia2]

This made me miss my bowling trip in camp, because i wantched this im not joking!

[missesmia2]

I feel dizzy. =P

[ToxorAxiom]

Norman, you are missed by many.

[ravensgat3]

lol

[barringtoncomesalive]

That was amazing. Hypnotic and ground breaking, I think this is my favourite, boogie doodle was pretty close though. It made me think of the first ever modem being born. I cant wait to show this to people.

[RonzilWeazleBack]

you can only show clips

[PepeVales]

Norman Mclaren didn't use a musical instrument but actually he designed (handwritted) the music directly into the film's audio track.

A pionner learning how to have fun...

God bless.

[voorface]

daphne oram used to do that too

[inceptional]

Yeah he actually painted, scratched etc, the sound marks directly onto the strip of film reel to create the sounds.

He was indeed a genius and pioneer.

[hausenharry]

that was really fun!

thanks

really!

[laplantine]

I ll never stop to look at it:)

[pegbars]

These are hand-painted soundtracks. Phenomenal!

[EggmanRobotnik]

I'm sure he made that after trying a computer game...

[EggmanRobotnik]

I'm sure he made that after trying a computer game...

[crabbyjoe]

he was making this stuff before computers existed!

[GolumTR]

That must really impressed Charles Babbage.

[naitsabestian]

McLaren was a genius...

[girishav]

wow mad in music and visuals amazing ....

[crazycat131]

such a sad sad man

[sonovac2006]

amazing! kawaii

[cl0thes0ff]

LOLL. Kawaii ? WTF xD

Come on, expand your vocabulary.

[pyrothoth]

"In some Asian and western cultures, the Japanese word for cute (kawaii, 可愛い) has joined a number of other Japanese words borrowed by overseas fans of Japanese pop culture." (wiki)

[cl0thes0ff]

Okay, maybe but sometimes you cannot say that something is ''kawaii''. Synchromy is miles away from being ''kawaii''.