Oskar Fischinger is an influential artist who contributed to the idea of animation and digital color in video, especially with music, long before that was happening in media. He experimented using paper-cut shapes and colors on a frame, held with invisible string, to represent a visual replication of how we mentally see music. The experimental combination of psychology and art to visually communicate complex ideas is what sparked my interest in the design field.
https://youtu.be/6Xc4g00FFLk?feature=shared
Fischinger's “An Optical Poem” created in 1938 was a great video I looked up during this reading so I could see an example of his work in motion. Interestingly enough, it made me think of early 2000s animations that would appear when you played an MP3 song, which I always liked to watch as a kid to see how the video matched up with the musical beats/rhythm.
