Quickly I shall jot down thoughts about outcomes and possibilities for improvisation.
+ What kind of results could be achieved?
1. Animate on a theme
+ Anijam by Marv Newland stars his own Foska character.
© International Rocketship.
International Rocketship founder Marv Newlands Anijam produced in 1984 features sequences by 22 different filmmakers which are linked together using the last drawing of each artist's section to begin the next. This process relates to the Exquisite Corpse exercises of literary and visual surrealist artists of the past century.
+ Or more recently ASIFA-NW Flash Anijam made in 2002 using flash.
+ Florance Miaihle
She does a detailed story board, and improvises when animating within a shot.
2. Animated sketchbook-flash
3. Live improvised 2D animated vj
+like a VJ responding to music live. Using a digital pen and tablet, responding, making marks live and improvised to music. Set up, for example, projected onto a black background then animator creates marks in response to the music and controls how long the marks exist on the screen before erasing and continuing with the marks. The visual style would be similar to
Carmeras Take Five, by Steven Woloshen. Drawn, animated marks responding to The Dave Brubeck Quartet playing Take Five. Canada 2003, screened in this years MIAF Melbourne. I don't think it is pure improvisation to the music. It would be edited methinx.
......AND then I check to see how he made it!
+++Cameras Take Five +++
In between his day jobs, Steven Woloshen has been creating handmade, cameraless animation for nearly 20 years, in cinemascope! His latest work, Cameras Take Five, is an abstract exploration of Dave Brubeck's classic jazz standard, 'Take Five.' Engraving and painting directly on film stock, the animation is a swirling dance, the 'enduring romance of lines,' as Woloshen says. It is the popping peekaboo pizzazz of dots, a firework display, a miniature maelstrom of color. Lines extending, collapsing, tumbling, folding, curling. Greens and purples. At times, it looks like holes are burned directly into the emulsion.
In his visual interpretation of 'Take Five,' there were no edits or cuts. There was no planned narrative or characters. Woloshen explains, 'The idea was digested in my head for approximately one year. Then, without storyboards or script, I started Cameras Take Five, and I let the music lead me where it wanted to go... As I worked and listened to the track, the line drawings (representing the sound of a saxophone) were leading me either to one side of the frame or the other. Two main colors began to dominate, and I was sectioning my parts into choruses, solos and refrains. '
This is an experience thrown down (on film). It is the marriage of motion and music, the tender goodnight kiss of animation in its simplest form. ++++++++
AWN link Friday, July 09, 2004
The (loose) idea I have would be a direct response, in time, in the moment to the music. Abstract marks, Like automatic writing, all created and projected in realtime.
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Is presstube.com improvised?
Righto. Back to the real world.