VISUAL MUSIC: AN iotaSALON COLLECTION 1960-2014
SATURDAY, JULY 12 – 8:00 PM – ONE NIGHT ONLY
16mm Titles Shown from Film!
“All of a sudden it hit me—if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can’t there be figures of motion?” -Len Lye
The iotaCenter is the premiere source for the presentation, preservation, and research of visual music, a language of abstract experimental film pioneered by figures like Mary Ellen Bute and Len Lye and continued through to the present day.
In conjunction with the New York City premiere of newly restored works by Robert Darroll, Spectacle is pleased to also partner with the iotaCenter on a retrospective of works ranging from the 1960s to present day: an evening of visual music, color rhythm, colour music, rhythmic light, lumia, digital harmony, liquid light, absolute film, visual harmony, abstract animation, abstract expressionist cinema, and kinetica.
Special thanks to Huckleberry Lain.
SCRATCH PAD
Hy Hirsh, 1960. 8 min.
16mm print!
HEAVY LIGHT
Adam K. Beckett, 1973. 7 min.
16mm print!
FURIES
Sara Petty, 1977. 3 min.
16mm print!
CALCULATED MOVEMENT
Larry Cuba, 1985. 7 min.
16mm print!
BLOOMY GIRLS
Takagi Masakatsu, 2005. 5 min.
JOSHUA HIS TREE
Michael Robinson, 2006. 6 min.
SON OF PUDDLE JUMPER
Chris Casady, 2009. 2 min.
APRES LE FEU
Jacques Perconte, 2010. 7 min.
THE DEEP DARK
Laura Heit, 2011. 7 min.
FIELDS
Dr. Strangeloop, 2012. 7 min.
ANTIQUITIES FOR THE QUEEN OF ANGELS
Huckleberry Lain, 2013. 10 min.
OCEAN
Stephanie Maxwell, 2014. 12 min.
About the iotaCenter
The iotaCenter is a non-profit arts organization, founded in 1994, devoted to the preservation and promotion of experimental animation and abstract visual music. Through our online discussion group and The Visual Music Village social network, we foster a worldwide community of artists, scholars and fans of this art form. iota has received numerous grants for its programs in film preservation and archiving and maintains a video study center for students, scholars and curators doing research in the genre.