Pause: Music to Our Eyes

We're not talking music videos here; we're talking visual music.

Like composers of music, videographers paint on the canvas of time. Over the course of a musical performance, the notes change; over the course of a video screening, the pictures change. The feelings of listeners and viewers change with these changes. Both these arts rely on the passage of measured time.

Since both video and music are time-based, we can employ musical techniques in the making of video. If we apply musical techniques alone, without mixing them with, say, the techniques of narrative video, we can produce video of a new genre: video ab…

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