Why Pink Floyd?
Pretty much the reason why the whole "sync thing" started is the sync between Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz. Pink Floyd are known for their light shows (and also not being known), which involves "Mr. Screen", the giant screen displaying videos behind the band. They actively synched their music to these films while playing live. Though that's not really much to prove they did this to movies as well, though. However, reading some books on the band, namely Inside Out by Nick Mason and Saucerful of Secrets by Nickolas Schaffner provides some interesting insight. Some relevant information that I believe proves Pink Floyd have intentionally synchronized their albums to various movies (also, I promise 2001: A Space Odyssey isn't my favorite movie). This isn't a complete list, to avoid repetitiveness as much as possible (more will be added to the relevant sync pages).
-p28, 1st par: "...that epiphany struck for the Pink Floyd Sound. "We'd already become interested in mixed-media, as it were," Waters recalled, "and some bright spark down there had done a film...given this paraplegic a film camera and wheeled him round London filming his view. Now they shoved it up on a screen behind us as we played.""
-p31par3: "An American couple, Joel and Toni Brown--friends of LSD guru Timothy Leary, no less--showed up at the first All Saints show with a slide projector and proceeded to cast weird images onto the Floyd in time with their music."
-p50 last part of par 1: "What was unique about them was they worked invariably with the light show; they were the only band in England at that time where that was part of the act."
-p138par1: "...their concerts were increasingly augmented not only by films but also by a plethora of inventive visual effects."
-p141pars1,2: "When Pink Floyd were invited early in 1969 to compose a full-length musical soundtrack for a movie, there was no need to ask twice. "We would have done almost anything in terms of film,"... Roger Waters, yet to balk at the sci-fi association, went so far at to say his "greatest regret" was that they didn't do the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey-- parts of which...sound remarkably Floydian."
-p147par7: "Roger, however, learned what he could from Ron's more extensive experience with film. "I certainly helped him out with the tedium of measurements for film sequences, stuff like that," says Geesin. "The tailoring. I'm very much a craftsperson; I can fit things in. I've found over the years the average film sequence lasts exactly one minute and fifteen seconds.""
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Inside Out by Nick Mason:
-p13par4: "Although my father was not particularly musical, he was definitely interested in music, especially when it related to one of his films."
-p134par1: "There was no budget for a dubbing studio with a frame-count facility, so we sat in a viewing theatre, timed the sequences carefully (it's amazing how accurate a stopwatch can be),.."
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