Vivaldi’s La Primavera
BDH produced a series of films to accompany the performace of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by the Emerald Ensemble.
This is the Largo from Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV </wiki/Ryom_Verzeichnis> 269, “La primavera” (Spring).
Vivaldi wrote sonnets for each concerto in the Four Seasons. For this piece he wrote:
“And now, in the pleasant, flowery meadow, to the soft murmur of leaves and plants, the goatherd sleeps with his faithful dog at his side.”
Each musical element clearly illustrates this scene and the shapes in the animation aims to reflect that.
http://www.emeraldensemble.co.uk/
this links is about the piece in general
http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/baroqueperiod/ss/fourseasons.htm
A Room of One’s Own
“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
Pablo Picasso
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
Dostoyevsky’s notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov
“Madame Tutli-Putli” by by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski – (2007)
“This stop-motion animated film takes viewers on an exhilarating existential journey into the fully imagined, tactile world of Madame Tutli-Putli. As she travels alone on the night train, weighed down with her all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past, she faces both the kindness and menace of strangers. Finding herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure, adrift between real and imagined worlds. she confronts her demons.”
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heinrich-siegfried bormann – visual analysis of a piece of music from a color-theory class with vasily kandinsky – october 21, 1930
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Philip Glass – Geometry of Circles (Sesame Street) (1979)
“”Geometry of Circles” is a series of unnumbered animation pieces created for Sesame Street in 1979. Cathryn Aison commissioned Philip Glass to write music for animation based on her storyboard which had been submitted to and approved by Edith Zornow of CTW.
The shorts consist of the movement of six circles (each with a different color of the rainbow) that are formed by and split up into various geometric patterns. Glass’s music underscores the animation in a style that closely resembles the “Dance” numbers and the North Star vignettes written during the same time period as his Einstein on the Beach opera.”
Leadbelly John Henry Last Sessions
“This is taken from his “Last Sessions,” recorded in late 1948, in New York City. The ‘Mr. Lomax’ mentioned is either John or his son Alan, both of whom discovered and visited Leadbelly while he was serving a sentence at Angola Prison Farm, Louisiana”
Paul Greer 