Re: [microsound] Tony Conrad's The Flicker

[ndk <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Chief among the Soviet experimenters was Eduard Artemiev, composer of
> the "Solaris" soundtrack using an ANS synthesizer.  Apparently only one
> is in existence in Russia and is still used by Artemiev: 
> http://www.electroshock.ru/eng/records/articles/anssynthesizer/index.html
 
Yes, it was developed in the late 50s and bore the initials in it's name
of Anton Nikolayvich Scraibin in tribute to the famous turn of the 20th
century classical composer who worked with the synaesthesia of colored
light's association with sound combinations.  


oh for what it's worth here is someone using the Mattel liscenced technology
http://www.optigan.com/shoptigan.html


And for further research in what I'm assuming was the original topic,
synthetically creating a soundtrack on the optical track of the film is
discussed historically in the 1977 book by Roy M. Pendergrast "Film
Music" which is found in many libraries. 

The ANS uses an optical means of sound production but it shouldn't be
implied that its output is going directly to the optical soundtrack of a
motion picture as a number of earlier experimenters did.


nick
http://www.artskool.biz/jem/ndkent/holidaymoog.html

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