Spinning Dreams and Beats

Ghastly grimaces, acrobatics, fountains of colour – the precursors of cinema needed only a few animation images to amaze. A parade of reanimated historical wonder discs.

A record with multicoloured dots turns in the strobe light. A hypnotising rain of confetti to the beat of psychedelic organ Krautrock from Finland.

The Phenakistiscope in three dimensions: A sculpture that shows the ghostly march of silently screaming people through a landscape of arms and legs in short animation loops.

Myriads of dots orbit the kaleidoscopic centre to the sweeping sound of a sitar. A breathtaking piece of visual music, realised by means of early computer animation.

Rectangular shapes in brilliant colours proliferate in a black void. The pioneer of computer animation uses 2D programming language to simulate strange fantastic galaxies.

Stunningly beautiful – and science-based, too: Cooper’s euphoric electronica track and its visualisation in the exhilaration of a geometrical principle that originated in 1570.

Accompanied by a vibrant guitar, the animation and noise machine “Thrum IX” enchants with snail shells and poppy capsules growing and shrinking on bicycle spokes.

“Zyprazol” is medicine, a psychedelic drug. Graphic elements and broken beats zip wildly past our eyes and ears. A music video made by Sculpture.