Michael Betancourt, an avant-garde movie maker, is one of the artists working in the experiment film movement in South Florida. He has been making movies for the past 15 years and has exhibited in places such as Tampa's Ybor Film Festival; Plugged-In: New & Electronic Media at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood; Miami Beach Cinematheque's Views from the Underground.
This years jurors W. Rod Faulds, Director, University Galleries, Florida International University; Monica Freeman, vice President of Axe Multimedia and FIU Film Instructor; and Miami artist and filmmaker Ali Prosch - have selected the latest installment of Optic Nerve:
This is an older article (Animation World Magazine, 1997) that details the long history of "color music" (visual music) from its ancient origins into the modern use of movies to create it.
This paper by Robert Emmett Mueller explains how to create "a video color music that can be scored like music and played on a standard electronic keyboard." (in .pdf).
