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Film & Video Documentation
This
page includes QuicKTime excerpts from a selection of Eric Siegel's
seminal video works, which illustrate his early electronic experiments
with image and color manipulation in relation to music. Further
information on these works can be found in the
EAI Online Catalogue. Also included is footage
of Siegel performing live on his synthesizer at the first office
of Electronic Arts Intermix. Click on the appropriate links to play
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Einstine
1968, 5:41 min, color, sound. Videotape, excerpt.
This QuickTime excerpt is from Einstine, a videotape
based on the video feedback piece Psychedelevision in Color, which
was featured in the groundbreaking 1969 exhibition TV as a Creative
Medium at the Howard Wise Gallery. Here an image of Albert Einstein
is colorized and manipulated to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Symphony
of the Planets
1968, 10:20 min, color, sound
Symphony of the Planets is an abstract composition in which
planetary shapes revolve in spiraling forms to the music of Tchaikovsky.
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Tomorrow Never Knows
1968, 3:10 min, color, sound
This QuickTime excerpt is from Siegel's Tomorrow Never Knows,
a psychedelic interpretation of a Beatles song.
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Film Documentation: Eric Siegel & Synthesizer
circa 1971,
16mm film, b&w, silent. Electronic Arts Intermix Archives.
In this excerpt from undated film footage from an undocumented source, Eric Siegel is seen performing live on his synthesizer in the offices of Electronic Arts Intermix at 2 West 13th Street.
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