Syncronized Sound and Image

story © Michael Betancourt | published October 7, 2007 | permalink |  |  

OffScreen has a special issue on film sound up, with a forum on synchronization between image and sound, specifically about Visual Music.

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 15, 2007 | permalink |  |  

Millennium Film Journal 45/46 includes my article on Mary Hallock Greenewalt's "Abstract Films." These are the oldest surviving hand-painted abstract films. [link to pdf]

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 26, 2006 | permalink |  |  

The Color Organ that Jack Ox has on his site looks very interesting. With clips and other info

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 20, 2006 | permalink |  |  

Here is a recent paper discussing the development of Color Music [pdf]. This version is for preview purposes only.

story © Michael Betancourt | published February 2, 2006 | permalink |  |  

Later this month I'm giving this Barbara Wilson Lecture on the history of visual music and abstract art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.