Digit by Ron Hays

this is from the laserdisc Ron Hays' Music Image: Odyssey. here is some more information from Siggraph:
"Ron Hays

The New Television Workshop at WGBH supported the creation and broadcast of experimental works by artists. One of their projects was the Music Image Workshop, which was primarily a project of Ron Hays, who used the Paik-Abe videosynthesizer to create elaborate visual scores set to music. It was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts from 1972 through 1974. Hays worked closely with WGBH producer and director, David Atwood, to create both live broadcasts and finished works. Additionally, works by other artists were presented under the auspices of the Music Image Workshop.

Hays later produced a short film with Michael Tilson Thomas, called Space for Head and Hands. It was an improvisation by Hays with piano by Thomas. He also produced animation for the Julie Christie movie Demon Seed, and a video art compilation of music, computer graphics and art for Odyssey called Ron Hays Music Image. This animation was produced using the Scanimate system. "

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ron
• Hays
• Music
• Image
• Odyssey
• Frank
• Serafine
• video
• art
• paik
• abe
• synthesizer
• scanimate
• WGBH
• 1970's
• computer

[JOJOKYRA]

@oberstadt with coding, check for Cinder, Processing. Search for "flight404's videos on Vimeo", he have good stuff, good luck :)

[fractalrock]

This must be the inspiration for the new Sufjan Stevens video for "Too Much."

[TonyKanameKuran]

The exploding star image reminds me of the 1983 opening sequence to both Saturday Supercade and Star Search (Ed McMahon).

[PJack3600]

i have a vhs with a lot of tracks of ron hays but this song was different there

[lorezapocalypse]

Yes, but digital technology has a different feel.

[oberstadt]

How could that dancing girl effect be made with today's technology?

[Backhendal]

absolutely amazing

[U5096]

that was so cool, loved the music too

[tenagliac]

After the Midnight Special, after Tom Snyder, there was Ron Hays and MusicVision.

I waited up extra late for these music videos. This was 72-74, you know, the good old days.

[hushpuppy69]

"Digit" is written and produced by Frank Serafine, who produced another track on the laserdisc called "Breath".  I don't think the track was ever releases outside of this title, i've certainly not been able to track it down anywhere.