# Jack Ellitt [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ellitt) · [Bandcamp](https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/sound-constructions) ( 1902 – 2001 ) ## Description Drawn-sound and abstract-sound composer, raised in Sydney and later based in Britain, best known for his decades-long creative partnership with the filmmaker [[Len Lye]], for whom he composed and arranged sound. ## Key Tags #visual-music #drawn-sound #sound ## Essential Works - *Sound Constructions* - collected recordings of Ellitt's abstract sound work, released posthumously ([Bandcamp](https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/sound-constructions)) - Sound and music for Len Lye's direct-animation films (e.g. *Colour Box*, *Trade Tattoo*) - no dedicated 240 page yet ## Details Raised in Sydney; relocated to London in the late 1920s, where he met Len Lye and began a long-running creative partnership contributing experimental sound and music to several of Lye's direct-animation films, alongside his own independent abstract sound compositions. ### Concepts and Theories %% none yet %% ### Creative and Technical Practices - [[Drawn Sound]] - worked in the same broad drawn/graphical-sound tradition as contemporaries such as [[Arseny Avraamov]] and [[Boris Yankovsky]] ### Collaborators - [[Len Lye]] - longtime composer/sound collaborator on Lye's direct-animation films ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%