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Synchromy
Synchromy (French: Synchromie) is a 1971 National Film Board of Canada visual music film by Norman McLaren utilizing graphical sound. To produce the film's musical soundtrack, McLaren photographed rectangular cards with lines on them. He arranged these shapes in sequences on the analog optical sound track to produce notes and chords. He then reproduced the sequence of shapes, colorized, in the image portion of the film, so that audiences see the shapes that they are also hearing, as sound.
McLaren had experimented with this
below are verified by documents from her distributor Cecile Starr and Bute's publicity materials and programs in the collection of the Center for Visual Music.
- "Synchromy" – 1933, collaboration with Joseph Schillinger and Lewis Jacobs [unfinished]
- "Rhythm in Light" – 1934 (b&w, 5 min.) in collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth
- "Synchromy No. 2" – 1935 (b&w, 5.5 min.) Music: "Evening Star" from "Tannhäuser" by Richard Wagner