Our Little Oz

MGM’s Wizard of Oz with Our Little Secret, by the Lords of Acid

Our Little Secret , Lords of Acid was recorded 2/16/97. There's no good reason to assume that they made a conscious effort to correlate the change of musical and thematic elements of the music with The Wizard of Oz when started at a precise moment (the end of the MGM Lion’s third roar at the beginning), but they do go together remarkably well. Some of the matches are listed below under The Synchronicities

The Lords of Acid album that preceeded Our Little Secret, Voodoo-U, also provides a very interesting sync with Wizard of Oz, making the Wizard of Acid series. For Voodoo-U, unpause the first song when the lion roars the second time. I had originally used the third lion's roar, but, at least up to the time when Dorothy leaves munchkinland, the second roar gives a lot nicer sync than at any of the surrounding starting points. I independently found a starting point for the beginning of the movie and for Oz, and they turned out to be the same point when I let the music from the first starting point continue.

These are examples of synchronicity, which is defined to be the meaningful coincidence between apparently unrelated events. If meaningfulness were more clearly defined, it would be easier to measure or compare levels of synchronicity. As it is, however, we are left to determine which of the coincidental elements of the two works that make up Our Little Oz are in some way meaningful. At a minimum, one has to allow some bending of normal ideas of what it means for a video and audio source to go together. But watching a nice sync makes it obvious how one should bend those rules because the question of whether or not they match up is replaced by the question of why they match. It can be as startling as planning to call someone and when you pick up the phone they’re already on the line because they were calling you.

Another problem with delineating the meaningful connections is that the coincidental information starts to carry its own meaning. So something might be meaningful in the context of other synchronicities, but not meaningful in a common sense way. The following notes are still in a rough form, and the later parts of the movie, while nicely synchronized, are only sparsely documented in these early notes.

One reason that I like this sync is that it goes along very nicely with my Wizard of Oz analysis from sometime in 1996.

The Synchronicities

 

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