Bill Etra

Raymond Roussel : le jour de gloire

Joan Bofill

Jordi Mollà, Antoni Comas

A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933).

How to Scramble The Cosmic Egg's

Bill Etra

"A substantial late work by Bill Etra". A "fast version" also exists.

Ms. Muffet

Bill Etra

Louise Etra

Computer/ video interface piece by Bill and Louise Etra with Dr. Lou Katz.

Abstractions on a Bedsheet

Bill Etra

Bill Etra's "Abstractions on a Bedsheet" was made with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer under PDP11-10 computer control. Bill said that the climax took as long as the rest of the piece to compose and program.

Tales from Beneath the Sheets

Bill Etra

Bill Etra, Louise Etra

Reclined underneath a bedsheet, Louise Etra reads an excerpt from chapter 3 of Legman's "Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques of Gential Excitation". Visual effects done on the Rutt-Etra synthesizer.

Laser Quantum L

Bill Etra

Louise Etra

An early work by Bill and Louise Etra.

Avalon

Bill Etra

Avalon is a real-time animation made to demonstrate the possibilities of Bill Etra's prototype digital video synthesizer that he, at the time, called "The New Machine". Set to Django Reinhardt's "Avalon".

Mars: An Optic Aspic

Bill Etra

Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody Vasulka. The 16mm film added some unexpected and welcome color effects that lend themselves to the composition and the choice was made to leave them in.

Lady of the Lake

Bill Etra

Louise Etra

Made by Bill and Louise Etra with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer in 1974. "A short piece of Gothic horror."

Heartbeat

Bill Etra

Louise Etra, Peter Crown

An early work by Bill & Louise Etra, with Peter Crown. Made with biotelemetry equipment and video synthesizer at the TV Lab, WNET, NYC.