{"id":1085,"date":"2012-04-10T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:28:36","slug":"a-la-pointe-de-la-plume-de-norman-mclaren-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/a-la-pointe-de-la-plume-de-norman-mclaren-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"A LA POINTE DE LA PLUME de Norman McLaren (1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, <a href=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/?p=1004\"><em>Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/McLaren.png\" style=\"width: 489px; height: 376px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The most original domain in which Norman McLaren\u2019s research was carried out is without doubt that of optical synthesis, obtained by means of two different processes, as a \u201cgenuine musician of light\u201d, to use Abel Gance\u2019s expression: \u201cbecause in his work the visual sensation (the light of the image) becomes musical sensation (the light of the sound)\u201d. <br>\n\tThe first technical process he uses is explained in <em>Pen Point Percussion \u2013 A la pointe de la plume<\/em> \u2013 (1950), a didactic film conceived retrospectively as an introduction to <em>Dots<\/em> and<em> Loops<\/em> (1939-1940), laying the foundations of \u201csound painting \u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qf3MT3ZTPI8?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>documentaire sur la technique de la \u00ab\u00a0peinture sonore\u00a0\u00bb sur pellicule.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,53,57,7,6,63],"tags":[15,11,115,19,135,29],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditorium","category-featured","category-extrait-video","category-fiche-film","category-les-cloche-datlantis","category-musee-du-son","category-oeuvres-graphiques","tag-cinema","tag-cinema-danimation","tag-documentaire","tag-experimentations-sonores","tag-pionniers-et-precurseurs","tag-synthese-optique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}