Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenbud's Denver investigations of Serios. They consist of local physicians, professors from Denver area colleges and universities, including several from the University of Colorado Medical Center, and at least one expert in photography and optics, Mr. Billie Wheeler, the head of the Center's Department of Audio-Visual Education. Eisenbud asserts that all of them have signed statements attesting to the physical events his book describes, and further stating that after participating in a Serios session, they could advance no material explanation for what they saw. As Eisenbud himself points out, these men and women, whatever their credentials...
...Flatt & Scruggs banjo music, the film describes the criminal career of Bonnie. Clyde and the friends and relations they collect along the way. Their initially clumsy and comic efforts at robbing banks become increasingly bloody as the film proceeds, until the imagery of incredible violence is the only real visual counterpoint to the desolate image of the landscape. And this is violence unlike that of any other film. Instead of the crisp theatricality and well-timed effects of a movie like The Dirty Dozen, Penn forces on us the relentless destruction of the human body. Even as the audience laughs...
Nowhere is this more apparent than at Expo 67, which is plugged almost everywhere into an array of far-out, ear-frazzling electronic music. Rather than standing on its own, it functions as an element in a mind-blowing fantasy of give-and-take with visual phenomena; the eerie amplified sounds absorb logic from their surroundings, lend drama to the enveloping space, and force the observer to fuse eye and ear into one receptive organ...
Music on the Move. At the Quebec pavilion, for example, a series of almost blank abstractions-freestanding blocks representing water, forests, industry-is bathed in an electronic score, by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Composer Gilles Tremblay, in which lab-produced whir, twitter and roar complement the visual suggestions. High overhead the individual sound tracks collide and coalesce into a contrapuntal aural landscape...
...score by Guy Wolfenden, equally blurred at first, moves on from muttered chaos to an idealized, magisterial fanfare. France has at its axis an abstract structure of curved interlocking planes and flashing lights, designed by Sculptor-Composer Yannis Xenakis, who also provided a flickering musical score that mirrors the visual shapes...