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New Soundtrack for Len Lye's Tusalava (1929)
This remarkable animated film was first screened by the London Film Society in 1929. Jack Ellitt’s original piano music for Tusalava has unfortunately been lost. The film imagines the beginnings of life on earth. Single-cell creatures evolve into more complex forms of life. Evolution leads to conflict, and two species fight for supremacy. The title is a Samoan word which suggests that things go full circle.
In this film, Lye based his style of animation partly on the ancient Aboriginal art of Australia. Tusalava is unique as a film example of what art critics describe as “modernist primitivism”. In contrast to the Cubist painters (who were influenced by African art), Lye drew upon traditions of indigenous art from his own region of the world (New Zealand, Australia and Samoa).
I improvised the music on an iPad using TC-Data as a MIDI front-end for Alchemy Mobile and Thor. After bringing the recording over to my PC, I added Fabfilter's Timeless 3 plugin to the mix in Vegas Pro.
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Fascinating and excellent work.
Thanks so much for this.
Fascinating indeed. Well done.
Amazing animation and your music works well for it. Sure miss Alchemy mobile. I have used that TC-Data,Alchemy,Thor combination a lot back in the day. The animation suggests to me that Apparillo from sugarbytes would pair well with it.
Just wonderful. For those in the UK or some VPNnable facsimile of it, the 2018 Secrets of British Animation documentary, in which Len's work rightly has pride of place, is back on iPlayer for the next not-quite-month. There's some great stuff about his extraordinary syncing of direct-on-film animation to jazz soundtrack. (And yes, they do point out that Len was actually the pride of NZ.)