V080: A Personal Search: For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art
Pyramid Film and Video, VHS (NTSC), color (1992), 27:15.
Directed by produced by: Mark Whitney, James Schiller
Time | Description |
0:00 | Credits |
0:45 | Music and color graphics |
1:30 | John Whitney describes his lifelong fascination with the correspondences between (computer-generated) music and visual arts |
4:00 | Photos of Paris (1937), where Whitney lived for a time with a practicing pianist. Here his ideas about the complementarity of the two art forms began. |
5:15 | Whitney began making films with his brother in 1944. He experimented with music generated by sine waves. |
7:35 | Whitney describes the influence of Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone compositions on his own ideas about music (Pierrot lunaire plays in background). |
8:20 | Whitney continues his experiments at computers in his California studio. |
12:50 | Whitney improvises a visual accompaniment to Antonin Dvorák's cello concerto. He demonstrates the composing program he uses. |
18:20 | Footage of Willem de Kooning painting in his studio. |
18:40 | Whitney quotes Pierre Boulez on the future of electronic music. |
19:45 | Whitney provides an introduction and voice-overs to selections from his composition, Black Elk Requiem. |
24:20 | Whitney makes concluding comments. |
25:00 | Credits |
27:15 | End |