Google is celebrating Oskar Fischinger’s 117th birthday marked with a Google Doodle that invites you to make a visual music composition. Google wants users to make own visual music composition in honor of Oskar Fischinger.
Oskar Fischinger (22 June 1900 – 31 January 1967)
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the dominance of computer graphics and music videos.
Oskar Fischinger,s Works
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger created special effects for Fritz Lang’s 1929 Woman In The Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket movies. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress. Fischinger’s short film An Optical Poem, 1938 was made entirely with paper in stop-motion fashion which is unique in his period.
Fischinger was also given an office at Paramount. He also made a film named Radio Dynamics which was planned for inclusion in the feature film The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936). However, Paramount only allowed its release in black-and-white, which was not communicated to Fischinger when he began his work. After many years, with the help of Hilla von Rebay and a grant from the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later The Guggenheim), he was able to buy the rights of the film. He re-painted the cells and made a colored version, which was then called Allegretto. It became one of Fischinger’s most popular films.
Google Doodle starts with Fischinger’s famous quote, “Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world”, it then takes you to a page where you can visually compose music by selecting dots on an 11×16 grid. You can select between four different instruments. Each dot represents a note while the composition is played on a loop.Wow
I have tried my best and felt good with the simple music maker from Google.If you’re interested in music, give it a try.
Stay updated with latest happenings of tech world on the go with Technobugg App, on Android and Windows.
