This project has opened creative possibilities by blurring boundaries between disciplines, and overlapping directions in visual art and sound.

We began with a genuine collaboration between the faculty, who were each already well-versed in interdisciplinary research. Working together we created curriculum that drew equally from each of our areas of expertise, resulting in projects that none of us could lead individually.

For the silent film (The Love of Zero) score we used an arbitrary and overlapping division of the film timecode to unify individual explorations in spoken word, foley, and synthesis.

The Love of Zero is a rather remarkable, short experimental film, made for $200 by director Robert Florey, in 1927. Owing much to German Expressionist cinema, the film tells the story of a young man, Zero (Joseph Marievsky), and his love for a young woman called, Beatrix (Tamara Shavrova). It was Florey’s second film, and reveals the talent he would employ in his long and successful career as a Hollywood director of such films as Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ex-Lady, The Marx Brothers’ Cocoanuts and The Beast With Five Fingers, plus a whole range of TV series including episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits.