Tarantella 1940
Abstract animation illustrates Edwin Gerschefski’s modernist composition. Two dots one blue and one orange appear most often, sometimes large, sometimes small, sometimes overlapping. When the sounds become more staccato, so do the images: wavy lines become squiggles, short naillike lines go across the screen in rows. The result is a visual representation of abstract music, lively and spirited in spite of its link to a dance composed to sweat out the poisons of a spider bite.
