Simultaneity describes events existing or happening at the same time. This describes precisely what happens when we play separately packaged music and movie with an overlap of occurrence. A documented simultaneity (simo for short) can be reliably repeated by other experimenters of the simo craft.

Music seems to have always been played with other events like festivals, theater, or a romantic date. In June 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven produced the Tone Poem “Egmont”. A Tone Poem, also known as the Symphonic Poem, is an orchestra music movement where an extramusical event provides the narrative or illustrative element. This event may be a painting, a poem, a story, or something else. ¹

This musical style was later championed by many composers like Richard Strauss who wrote the 1896 Tone Poem “Also sprach Zarathustra” to musically illustrate Nietzsche’s writings by the same name. “Also sprach Zarathustra” is known to us today as the theme music for Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”. ²

Experimental and innovative politics, art, and culture came to be called Avant-garde (French for advace guard). Avant-garde culture challenges the static norm.

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Dear Marine Biologist,

There has been a reported sighting of a unique creature at the bottom of the ocean. The fully staffed research vessel has been reserved . So secure your funding and round up your sampling equipment. We are diving to locate the "Ray of the Abyss."

This beast has been sighted in the benthic zones between the extended version of 1989 movie "The Abyss" (Special Edition 171 Minutes) and Madonna’s 1998 album "Ray of Light." Pause the movie when rat boy completely opens the door to see Garfield at the window, and the empty table where the nuclear warhead used to be. Pause when you see Garfield at this moment. This is after the water worm. Program your CD player to play tracks 1-11, 13, and 12. Pause "Ray of Light" at 0:00 of track one. Then simultaneously hit play of the movie and CD.

With scientific method we should be able to reproduce the sighting of this electric creature. Bring your cameras and video recorders. And please remember to have fresh batteries this time.

Your Salty Sea Captain,
Karl Tune

Thought some of you folks might get a kick out of this story on RS.com

Meet the King of Stoner Rock Movies (Just in Time for 4/20!)

By now most everybody (stoned or otherwise) knows that watching The Wizard of Oz while listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon unspools a motherload of eerie synchronicities. But did you know that the same thing happens when you combine Led Zeppelin IV and The Fellowship of the Ring? Or The Matrix and Metallica’s “Black Album”?

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Another typical setup: Just start the album after the Columbia Pictures logo fades into blackness. The album ends shortly before the movie, so there's probably no need for a repeat.

Typical setup: Just start the album as soon as the Fox Searchlight logo fades away, and have the CD on repeat.

Start OK Computer at the MGM lion's third roar at the end of this album start In Rainbows at the splice between the meeting the lion and witch scene. In Rainbows original play list cd 1 ends early on cd 2 play 4 minute warning. This still ends early,just play the movie sound track for the end.

The Criminologist in the study says, “… found the assistance they required or had they?” As soon as you see the lightning bold of video split the screen, showing the gargoyle at the front door, start track 1 “Hotel California”.

Before revealing Rocky under the red cover, Frankenfurter says’ Tonight is the night!” and snaps his glove and snaps his glove. As soon as the glove snaps, start track 2 “New Kid in Town”.

As soon as the red light starts blinking on the “Deep Freeze”, start track 3 “Life in the Fast Lane”.

The Criminologist says, “Show them to their separate rooms” and the video shows an enlarging key hole. As soon as you see the key hole, start track 6 “Victim of Love”.

As soon as Janet sees Brad smoking with Frankenfurter in the background, start track 4 “Wasted Time” and follow it with track 5 “Wasted Time (reprise)”

As soon as you see Frankenfurter chase Janet back into the lab, start track 7, “Pretty Maids all in a Row”.

As soon as the lights shine on the stage curtain, start track 8 “Try and Love Again”.

As soon as Extra-terrestrial Riff-Raff and Magenta first show up in the door, start track 9, “The Last Resort”.

In effectively “reposting” my old “What is Synchronicity” intro, it kinda got me thinking a bit about how much in this little hobby has changed. Back then, DVDs were just starting be talked about as an upcoming technology, everything “consumer level” was still very much VHS (with a little sprinkling of laserdisc for the “enthusiasts”). VHS was convenient, in the sense of being widely available. And since most people didn’t really have their stereos as home theatres per se, it was relatively easy to manually set up a synch. Just pop in your movie, pause it… pop in your CD, pause it… and unpause both.

The manual method pretty much ruled. When it came to creating a digital synch, a lot more was involved. You had to find some way to get the VHS movie into your PC, and then remove its sound. The audio piece was comparatively easy, but even there, it wasn’t quite as easy as it is now. There were still nowhere near the range and breadth of tools for audio conversion that there are now.

Nowadays, the tools for creating digital synchs are readily available. Because of the weak copy protection on DVD, you can easily find both free and paid programs to rip movies from DVDs. Same for CDs, which don’t have any copy protection. And even combining the two, there are many free and paid programs that will let you do just that. And with YouTube and other video sharing sites, you can even easily share clips with friends and strangers.

Not at all like it was. It definitely illustrates how “out of touch” now that reposting is. It really needs updating. In fact, it has started to seem to me like a lot of the Arkive needs updating. It’s a familiar refrain, that I’m a bit behind… so I thought I’d try something different to both involve the community and maybe re-energize myself a bit.

So… a challenge to the community. To help rewrite the definition of Synchronicity, for all those new visitors out there. This will be the Arkive’s new contest.

Details:

• You can use what I reposted as a “seed” if you’d like, or you can come up with your own version.


• Submissions can be in any format, any length, and must be made by April 20th, to arkiver@xnet.com.


• Looking for this to be informative and complete for people new to the hobby, well-written (although I can do some clean-up on a submission that’s got a good core).


• I’ll do 2 runners up and a winner, with prizes (TBD).

Are you up to the challenge?

peace,