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Norman McLaren - Neighbours - 8mins - 1952

on October 12, 2006

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One of the many short films put out by the National Film Board of Canada. This one was headed by Norman McLaren, in 1952

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Maura McDonnell: Maura McDonnell is a visual music artist and researcher based in Ireland. She creates visuals for new music and electronic music concerts, fixed media and installation productions. The medium of choice is visual effects and generative effects video and the style of her work is abstract. The meaningfulness that she seeks in her work is to explore the emotional, musical and evocativeness potential of music in a shared similarly crafted visual world. Maura also lectures on the M.Phil in Music Media Technology Masters Course at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and support students to engage with visual music in their own works. Please get in touch if you would like to include your work or research on this blog.

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