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Music Image Workshop

11/20/1980

Ron Hays Music Image Demo Tape 1. The Love-Death 2. Delta 3/C 3. Starship 4. S-Scapes 5. Gayne Ballet Suite 6. The Pachebel Canon

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Program

Music Image Workshop

Program Description

The Music Image Workshop was primarily a project of Ron Hays, who used the Paik-Abe videosynthesizer to create elaborate visual scores set to music. It was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts from 1972 through 1974. Hays worked closely with WGBH producer and director, David Atwood, to create both live broadcasts and finished works. Additionally, works by other artists were presented under the auspices of the Music Image Workshop.

This work features an elaborate play of sound, color and light. Abstract images manipulated into a tunnel effect seem to carry the viewer deeper and deeper into the space of the monitor. Some existing footage is incorporated, including the surface of a body of water. This work appears to have been divided into several sections, including "Prelude" and "The Love Death."

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Topics

Music

Citation

Chicago: “Music Image Workshop,” 11/20/1980, GBH Archives, accessed October 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B9448DF30F094D80BDE5922383A66D7A.

MLA: “Music Image Workshop.” 11/20/1980. GBH Archives. Web. October 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B9448DF30F094D80BDE5922383A66D7A>.

APA: Music Image Workshop. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B9448DF30F094D80BDE5922383A66D7A