OT: sound to picture meta.../hendrix is jazz?

[scott hansen <evanpeewee@yahoo.com>]

wow, i've never heard the hendrix to jazz link. just thought of him as a great r&b singersongwriter-who was way out there for his performances...and i thought a lot of his songs verged on poetry (which i also thought was amazing since he was a HS dropout)...but come to think of it, the "still raining, still dreaming song" off electric lady land was very jazzy sounding, and w/ the horn in it (which sounded good w/ the wah wah).... from interviews w/ hendrix and w/ his woodstock ensemble-it did sound like he was trying to use more colors in his music, explore new options...oh, i guess i should detract my 1st statement, i always loved the instrumental thing from woodstock after star spangled banner, it was the wes M. -type octave chord groove thing, guess that was "jazzy"...

well, the discussion of sound to pictures sounds to me like, a technology thing (out of my league), but many yrs ago when i was still in grad school (MFA-painting...seems like an eternity) i did
 a VERY BAD research paper for the toughest prof i ever had on the link of visual arts and sound/music...the futurists where a later touchstone (they were the all for technology folks that used the cubist language to emphasize speed & motion), the joke one of my art apprec teachers said about them is they were all for the war (machines and all) and all died in WW1, hence the end of that movement...but the beginnings of the link of art & sound began w/ Wagner, and his:
Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork"), the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts (from Wiki-had to look it up b/c i can never remember that german word)

 there was also someone who came up w/ the light organ thing (can't remember date or who-i think i missed that in my paper)...well, anyway, there was rumblings of these ideas in the 1870's-a good 40 yrs before the
 futurists...there was also the link of composers Schoenberg (& others) who moved toward atonality in music but also explored the visual arts (works looked like the german expressionist stuff of turn of the century-1900's)-and this link of exploring new sounds in music along w/ the exploration of new vocabulary in art (cubism) was also linked to Einstein's theory of relativity (seeing the universe in new light)...oh well, idea was that these ideas where in the air...and again my paper was very bad, although i did get a B on it -which was a miracle-since the prof's notes were longer than my paper! i think he liked that I tried something different and out of the ordinary....
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ps-don't forget the lava-screen projections at the fillmores back in the 60's-loved seeing those performances during MTV's closet classics show!! and i think there was projections behind hendrix during his "band of gypsies" 3 night stint at new yrs, 1970...

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