London Alternative Photography Collective Talk on Optical Sound

I will be doing a talk later today about optical sound and the history of photography of sound, Sally Golding will also be showing some of her work!
http://lapc.format.com/next-meeting 
http://www.facebook.com/events/497347793749239/

Photo from Seeing Sound by Winston E.Kock

Étienne-Jules Marey & Georges Demeny

Marey & Demeny both photographers and inventors in France, working at the same time as Muybridge (and perhaps even more pioneering!) established a programme of research which was to lead to the creation of the ‘Station Physiologique' where they would use a variety of methods to visually record and study various kinds of movement. This was all going on at the dawn of film and many of their inventions were precursors or direct ancestors of the standard film camera and projector. They also recorded some images of sound , data and movement as light which is what I am interested in (see this post on early sound visualization/ photoacoustics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Jules_Marey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Demen%C3%BF http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld/wp/?p=411 https://sites.google.com/site/drtrippy/chronophotography http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/resrep00_01/Jahresbericht_2_3_section.html http://www.cinematheque.fr/marey/abecedaire/abecedaire-m/muscle.html http://victorian-cinema.net/demeny http://lightpaintingphotography.com/light-painting-history/