Music of the NFB – Part 2

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MUSIC OF THE NFB: PART ONE

… and more on La musique de l’ONF below because this double album is a truly remarkable collection of early Canadian electronic music.
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DIMENSION SOLEILS 1970, 04 min 46 s
Film by Raymond Brousseau and music by Gilles Tremblay

Brousseau, in Dimension Soleils, bring together mathematical theories and experimental cinema as a means of exposing the poetic potential of systems and structures. The music that accompanies the film represents one of the highlights of this double album. Tremblay writes, “I opted for the simple solution of editing/mixing a selection of concrete sounds divided into two families: even tracks and unevenly oscillating groups. These two families served as my point of departure and corresponded to the dialectic of the film with, however, a wide door left open for associational ideas, graftings which could bring about that “géométrie effervescente”.

dimension soleils

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METADATA 1971, 08 min 30 s
Film by Peter Foldès and music by Alain Clavier

Metadata represents one of the earliest documented efforts to produce animation films using computer-generated images. The 1971 film pertinently features Clavier’s bastardized instrumental pop music – jazz-rock drenched in treated electroacoustic sounds.

metadata

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NEIGHBOURS / VOISINS 1952, 08 min 06 s
Film and music by Norman McLaren

“This work by McLaren illustrates a dispute between two neighbours and uses photographed sound produced by an animation method – frame by frame – employing cards each of which carries the black-and-white pattern of a particular sound pitch, and combining these to give the desired music.”

CDR reissue available through Mimaroglu Music Sales.