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NEMO 016 year: 2005
Music for imaginary films or new soundtracks for existing films |
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| Katharina's Reich |
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| One scene among others. Human beings, frantic, impatient, looking for their meaning of life amongst the crowd. Tunnel views on beings which are either professionally in a good mood, or know that it is all over before it starts. 1.) 00:00 - 00:08 Quick fade up, students entering a lecture room, zoom on a young man who is visible in an indisposed mood. Flying Steady over his head, following him. 2.) 00:08 - 00:12 Cut: maybe white flash Steady flying on mumbling lips 3.) 00:12 - 00:18 Cut: maybe white flash Young man, helpless, Steady 360° fly 4.) 00:18 - 00:31 He sits down, Steady in his line of sight. On the professor's stage men waving their hats to and fro in mannequin manner (or doing a can-can?): Hitler, Stalin, Adenauer, Mao, Kohl, Roosevelt, Kissinger... Fade to black |
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| Central Dream Park |
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| Music for the closing scene of an imaginary impressionist feature about Central Park. All sounds come from the M-Tron mellotron sample library. | |||||||||
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| Dance of the Malistics |
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| "Dance of the malistics" could be part of the film music for an independent science fiction film with a surrealist undertone. A long time after a nuclear catastrophe on earth, new civilisations have formed, one of them being the malistics. They live with nature, rites, and myths, are believed to possess magical forces, and to use them to suppress other peoples. "Dance of the malistics" is the music for a scene at first set in a cave, later outside the cave. The malistics - which can never be clearly seen throughout the movie - dance around a fire. The end of the movie reveals that they do not really possess magical forces but are in contact with an alien race which supplies them with their advanced technology. | |||||||||
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| Music for Films |
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| spanning decades, across the ages | |||||||||
| My attempt to produce a traditional version of film music - a main theme which is reinterpreted in a variety of ways throughout the film to enhance/underpin/contrast with the prevailing mood of the images at any point in the film. Possibly there are insufficient variations on this theme to fully uphold the thesis, but that's the theory, at least. The main melody is some 30 years old; one for which I've been attempting to find a home in all that time. It was almost included in a documentary about arctic exploration, but the main protagonist fell-out with the production company at the point of departure, so that film was never made. Nor indeed is there yet a film for the music in its current form. You'll need to indulge me quite a but here, but: keeping in mind the idea of long distance journeying that was the subject of the abandoned film that was not to be; having myself reached the milestone age of 50 this year (and as a Thursday Child, I have far to go), and in search of a motif, I became drawn to the idea of "spanning the ages", and - albeit a somewhat thin conceit - started taking a series of images of the Severn Bridge which crosses between Wales and England as I drove across it twice a week, enroute to London from Penarth. Rather than a "movie", these pictures form a slow-dissolve montage of the bridge in changing light and weather conditions. Or will do, if I ever get around to completing it! DCO - guitars, ebows, sustainer guitar, sound manipulations, loops |
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| Twig Cathedral |
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| The music is a soundtrack to a film I shot/edited of a sculpture that is made entirely of twigs and other living plants; it's at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens, constructed by Patrick Dougherty. http://www.stickwork.net/dougherty/main.html Here's the link for the video in mpeg1 format, 128 MB. http://www.heavyconfetti.com/new/video/twigcathedral_mpeg1.mpg |
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| Foreign Film (Camera Bag Theme) |
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| Acoustic guitars, fretted & fretless basses, 60's Halifax organ, dumbek, bongos, flute, cello, cymbal, airport and vintage telephone samples Scene synopsis: Set in late 1960's Europe, "Foreign Film" might have been made by Michelangelo Antonioni, but wasn't. In this scene, our protagonist Ingrid (an extremely attractive former airline stewardess who now runs her own very hip travel agency) has just completed a location shoot with freelance photographer Erik when she notices that Erik has left behind in the Amsterdam airport departure lounge a small camera bag containing a flash attachment. Trying to be helpful, she gives the bag to Jane, her stewardess friend (who is also very attractive) to bring to London on the next flight where it can be returned to Erik by Ingrid's eccentric sculptor friend Steven. What Ingrid doesn't realize is that Erik is working undercover for Interpol, and has intentionally left the bag (which contains microfilm) to be picked up by Bruno (a shady character whose allegiances have not yet been made clear to the viewer) for delivery to Erik's partner Peter who is deep undercover investigating a crime ring. What follows is a madcap chase as the camera bag follows a circuitous path around Europe. |
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| Yume |
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| Yume is a score to a scene that would appear in a biopic for the poet Matsuo Basho. In his last hours, he lays in bed, ill. Around him are gathered his disciples, to whom he gifts his final poem. He recites the 17 syllable poem and shortly afterward dies. The poem (in loose english translation) reads: On a journey, fallen ill and over withered fields dreams go wandering still (The japanese is: Tabi ni yande/yume wa kareno wo/kakemeguru) |
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| End Titles |
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| an imaginary end titles soundtrack | |||||||||
| I've made a soundtrack for the scrolling titles you would see at the end of an imaginary movie. The ones you see if you don't shoot too fast from your seat after the final scene. The trailer can be found at: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/eterogeneo/end_titles.swf F.A.: piano, synth, sound sculpture, loops. |
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| The Man-Machine |
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| Metropolis: In one of the iconic moments of the film, the inventor Rotwang’s Man-Machine is transformed to give her the appearance of the resistance leader Maria, whilst the hero Freder is trapped within the lower levels of the house. Arcs of electricity surround the robot as Rotwang pulls various levers and Maria lies on a nearby table encased in a glass cylinder. | |||||||||
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| In the Underground City |
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| In the Underground City, Freder sees an old worker struggling with the dials on a piece of clock-like machinery. The worker fails to keep up with the demands of the machine, and thus the machine blows up. Freder begins to hallucinate that the masses of workers are being shoved into the mouth of the monstrous machine. The imagery of Metropolis’ unquenchable hunger for more human lives is symbolically clear. Link to movie clip with Mank's music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TgLrB8ooLw |
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| The Amusement Park Scene |
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| two parents desperately looking for their kidnapped daughter at a amusement park. | |||||||||
| Study One |
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| Soundtrack for an excerpt from a video work in progress that pays tribute to abstract experimental films and visual music by the Whitney Brothers, Harry Smith, Len Lye, Oscar Fischinger, as well as video pioneer Nam June Paik and others. Download the complete video here: http://www.archive.org/details/Study_One Get the Xvid codec (required) here: http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec |
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| Das Geräusch |
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| Soundtrack for an imaginary German trailer of "Earth vs. the flying saucers". Granulated rattan sofa, half speed mellotron, various sounds, speech samples. Translated libretto: man1: listen! what is it? woman: what do you mean? man1: this is the noise! woman: this is the noise! woman: this is the noise! man1: this is the noise that was on our tape. we could not understand the words because the tape was running too fast man2: we have only heard some unintelligible noises - but they didn't make sense to us alien: we have a completely different rhythm of time here alien: (sings in alien language) woman: was that a saucer ... a flying saucer? man1: we have seen something that one could take for a flying saucer ... movie links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169 (has link to old trailer) http://www.bmovies.de/untertassen1.html |
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| Attack of the 50ft Woman |
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| A new soundtrack for the proto-feminist camp classic Attack of the 50ft woman. The premise of the track is, what would have happened if Bernard Herrmann hadn't scored 'the day the earth stood still' and had, in fact, scored this? The trailer can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/attack_of_the_50_ft_woman |
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