Ron Hays Music-Image: Odyssey (1979)

"Ron Hays Music-Image: Odyssey" is a 1979 Laserdisc compilation of experimental music videos using the analog animation technique of Scanimation.

Thanks to Thebetawizard for the upload

Michael Nicholson

Michael Nicholson Born in 1916 in England now in his 90s he has lived and taught in New Zealand and Australia since the 1950s. He worked with the scanimate in Canberra in the 1970s as part of his visual music explorations. The series of works available online were restored for exhibition with the help of The New Zealand Film Archive. Please see the informative article linked below from Circuit.org a relatively new resource for New Zealand based film and video art.

http://circuit.org.nz/artist/michael-nicholson

http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/

http://artbash.co.nz/

http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/

http://wellingtonista.com/2008/08/12/video-synthesizer/

and some videos

http://circuit.org.nz/film/visual-music-project-stage-3-op4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glD5-GfVE5k

http://youtu.be/SI-f7xzE5Rc

http://circuit.org.nz/film/visual-music-project-stage-3-op3

Moog Little Phatty and the Scanimate

experimentalsynth

3d image manipulator // vector monitor

synchrot/synchroton

David Stringer And Mr Colorizer

In the world of DIY video hardware it is quite hard to have done something unusual as the area you are working in is unusual in itself so anything you make appears out of the ordinary anyway

When I stumbled upon David Stringer's site about Mr Colorizer and Mr Animation, it took me a while to notice that the original Mr Colorizer (1975) was valve based !!! thats right vacuum tubes !!! the rest of his system is pretty interesting as well sharing some of the same functionality as the scanimate. Surly a Valve based colouriser is something to be marveled at :)

his youtube is here

Analog approaches, non-linear editing, and compositing

interesting site here

"Perhaps one of the earliest pioneers of this analog computer animation approach was Lee Harrison III. In the early 1960s, he experimented with animating figures using analog circuits and a cathode ray tube. Ahead of his time, he rigged up a body suit with potentiometers and created the first working motion capture rig, animating 3D figures in real-time on his CRT screen. He made several short films with this system, called ANIMAC."

image taken from here 

and now with xbox kinect this technology sits atop the family television 

Really Beautiful DIY Scanimate

now heres a really cool project built by tom16mm using mostly modified commercially available hardware to create a scanimate workalike.

how to in the description

Scanimate Letter H

From the youtbe description by NantoVision


"1977, a neat little segment about the letter H, narrated by Luis (Emilio Delgado) and a little girl named Heather. With no new episodes of The Electric Company being made that year, I guess CTW had to think of something else to do with their trusty Scanimate machine. Personally, I wish they had used it more."





more on the scanimate here and here