What
This Site Is About
The word synchronicity
in the title of this site refers to the playing together of unrelated video
and audio components by cueing them to a common starting point. A connected
term is synchronization, meaning "to occur at the same time," or "to move
or take place at the same rate and exactly together." Judging by the attention
received on the Internet in the last several years, the study of synchronicities
has become a quite popular hobby, and all indications point to it remaining
so. All the material you need to join in the
is a TV, stereo, VCR, CD player, and the appropriate CDs and videotapes.
The goal of this web
site is to further promote the study of synchronicities by (1)
separating
what I consider some of the best specimens from the rest, the so called
Ultimate
Pink
Floyd Synchronicities of the title;
(2)
providing one specific and perhaps best way of setting up these particular
synchronicities, and; (3) extending their
meaning beyond various intent theories and more firmly into the realm of
Jungian synchronicity (see Deeper Stuff
for more on this last one).
The
Main Synchronicity
By far the best known
synchronicity is "Dark Side of the Rainbow" (abbreviated DSotR),
also sometimes known as "Dark Side of Oz." It is created by synchronizing
the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz with rock group Pink
Floyd’s similarly classic 1973 album
Dark Side of the Moon.
Although known at least several years beforehand, the synchronicity vaulted
into the public spotlight in 1997 through its description on a popular
Boston radio show. The buzz ran that if you start the Dark Side of the
Moon CD at the third roar of MGM trademark Leo the Lion introducingThe
Wizard of Oz and then turn off the sound to the movie, a myriad of
strange matches follow: CD lyrics seem to consistently parallel what
is happening on screen; shifts in musical emphasis highlight important
movie transitions, such as the introduction of characters and settings.
Many thought the match ups too numerous and exact, and that Pink Floyd
had to design it. Others accepted various band member's public denial of
involvement, and attributed the whole phenomenon to either chance or some
type of strange cosmic confluence.
From the widespread
press received over the last few years, "Dark Side of the Rainbow" has
probably already achieved a pop culture status on par with the Beatles'
Paul
is Dead hoax of the late Sixties, with which it shares other
similarities. Yet in my opinion the picture of the synchronicity remains
incomplete. For example, there appears to be an entirely unknown
side to it I see as an equal complement to "Dark Side of the Rainbow" proper.
In the not too distant future I plan to dispense more specific information
about this fun and unknown aspect, which I call "The "Rainbow Sphere."
Stay tuned for further details!
Click here
to go directly to my "Dark Side of the Rainbow" page and skip the rest.
Second
Banana & Dopplegangers
Perhaps as old as "Dark
Side of the Rainbow" is the knowledge that Pink Floyd’s song "Echoes,"
comprising one side of their 1971 album Meddle, synchronizes amazingly
well with the ending section of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001:
A Space Odyssey, separately titled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite."
The resulting synchronicity is one I call "Jovian Echoes," but is also
know by several other names. Many actually consider "Jovian Echoes"
more interesting than "Dark Side of the Rainbow," and certainly the evidence
for intent seems stronger, mainly coming from several quotes connecting
Pink Floyd directly with Stanley Kubrick.
More recently, Shawn
Hare, who runs one of the best "Dark Side of the Rainbow" sites ("The Definitive
List"), has discovered another quite striking synchronicity again
using Floyd’s "Echoes," this time as a substitute audio for the ending
of the popular 1997 science fiction movie Contact starring Jodie
Foster. "Contact Echoes," a virtual thematic bookend to "Jovian Echoes,"
appears to provide quite valuable additional information about the nature
of video/audio synchronicities.
Other recently found
synchronicities also seem to play specific roles, including one of my personal
finds I've named "Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine." Again we use the
Dark
Side of the Moon CD, this time combining it with acclaimed Beatles
animation flick Yellow Submarine. I have decided to include this
synchronicity here over others because it fits in nicely with the themes
of this web site, as well as acting as an alternative and contrast to "Dark
Side of the Rainbow" using the same audio source. Judging by the almost
unanimous praise received by other synchers, it is also an easier one to
"get" than some of the others found on this site, most likely because it
is so similar in feel and style to "Dark Side of the Rainbow."
Click here
to go directly to my "2nd Banana & Odd Doubles" page to find out about
the set ups for "Jovian Echoes," "Contact Echoes," and "Dark Side of the
Yellow Submarine."
So
Is That It?
Have all the ultimate
Pink Floyd synchronicities been found? Most likely, no. Even presently
it seems very likely that "Contact-Echoes" and "Dark Side of the Yellow
Submarine" can be substituted with a handful of others (12)
already promoted on the web, with little if any slippage of quality. Perhaps
someone somewhere will even come up with one that tops "Dark Side of the
Rainbow," a new king of the hill. So to all you synchronizers out
there: persist; persevere; stay the course. And above all have fun along
the way!
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