Oskar Fischinger's Visual Music

Oskar Fischinger's animation the movement of forms and the rhythm of the music echoes each other. This symbiotic flow arises from the interaction of colours and energetic movements linked to Fischinger's psychological states.

Fischinger's structural workflow:

• analyse a piece of music.
• breaking it down into time components.
• do the drawings separately from the music to create a visual composition.
• as a result, synchronisation is done entirely on its own.

Kreise (excerpt) by Oskar Fischinger from CVM on Vimeo.

Sources

• A credible documentation of Oskar Fischinger's Biography from Center for Visual Music: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/
• William Moritz on Oskar Fischinger and Music: https://vimeo.com/13793156