SYNCHROMY NO.2
EUTERPE
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5m 20s
Seeing sound. Music, in addition to pleasing the ear, brings something to the eye. SYNCHROMY NO.2 was designed by a modern (circa-1930s) artist to create moods through the eye as music creates moods through the ear. A pictorial accompaniment in abstract forms to the music of THE EVENING STAR (from TANNHÄUSER) by Richard Wagner.
The first SYNCHROMY was made in collaboration with Lewis Jacobs and Joesph Schillinger but was never completed. Therein, there is no NO.1 (just as there is a NO.4 in the series without a third).
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