
040: Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)
Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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Fantasia Sync - The Link Between Visuals and Sound
This is a section where words really fail me, other than to observe the truly remarkable chemistry between David Gilmore and Rick Wright. In the Fantasia sync, the link between visuals and sound was so immediately striking here that I felt compelled to put aside any lingering skepticism and keep going with it. For those of you who haven't seen Fantasia in a while, or ever, the first animation we see in the movie is a series of backdrops of clouds punctuated with sporadic emergence of lights. Over time, more images emerge, mostly as different abstract collections of shape and color, and I'd be hard pressed to think of a more perfect merging of sound and visuals than this portion of echoes and
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