classic drone series sound, sound design, music in film (univers du western)
opening sequence with dean martin looking for a drink in the cantina unusual edits in the music plus changes in the mood of the music accentuate the action and violence in contrast to the editing of the picture, which is pretty standard, except for the drawing and firing of the pistol by joe burdette (screen captures)
certainly one of the most striking and inventive opening sequences in film history the first dialogue is at 4.45 into the film
(for more unusual editing in a fight scene : see the bar fight with bogart in nicholas ray's in a lonely place - 1950)
music - dimitri tiomkin, dean martin, ricky nelson, walter brennan - my rifle my pony and me, cindy, rio bravo (see dean martin bear family box set return to me) sound - robert b. lee (the treasure of the sierra madre, the big sleep)
classic drone series sound, sound design, music in film
subtle relationships of sound and music found in shutter island (the soundtrack being an outstanding gathering of 20th century classical music)
specifically, sounds of: rain, snow, wind, thunder, water and the sea, fire, vinyl lps (surface sounds, memory), distant melodies, distant voices, dreams, bird sounds and other animals, drone, reverberant spaces (military architecture)
boat ride to shutter island, flash back (includes record player no. one)
voice fades when women becomes visible
records and record players (odeon records, moments of nazism *)
record player no. two - it's mahler
record player no. three - memory of nazi's office
record player no. four - wife flash back two
record player no. five - nazi's office
distant melodies (from two different sequences in the film, first one with delay)
thunder / john cage (with voices, snow fall, and a girl's voice) / mahler girls voice reminiscent of the twins in the shining
the sea / man falling into the sea (heard, not seen) / feldman's rothko chapel / scelsi's uaxuctum and small rodents
also worthy of mention is the ward c section with bird sounds, water dripping, electronic outbursts, and distant voices
music supervision - robbie robertson sound mixer - petur hliddal supervising sound editor - eugene gearty music editor - jennifer l. dunnington music researcher - jared levine
music: - john cage - root of an unfocus, music for marcel duchamp - brian eno - lizard point (from on land) - morton feldman - rothko chapel 2 (from rothko chapel) - lou harrison - suite for symphonic strings, nocturne - györgy ligeti - lontano - ingram marshall - fog tropes, prelude: the bay (from alcatraz) - krzysztof penderecki - symphony no.3, 4th movement: passacaglia - allegro moderato - max richter - on the nature of daylight - giacinto scelsi - uaxuctum 3rd movement - alfred schnittke - four hymns: hymn II for cello and double bass - lonnie johnson - tomorrow night - johnnie ray - cry - kay starr - wheel of fortune (also used in l.a. confidential) - dinah washington and max richter - mixed by robbie robertson
i had an idea with thoughts of collapsing stars that i wanted to see your thoughts of collapsing stars so i cleared my sights thoughts of collapsing stars so that it could be the thoughts of collapsing stars i rowed to the other side then i rowed back again to the edge of the outer limits and then along you came it's a journey in the mind thoughts of collapsing stars our mental states aligned thoughts of collapsing stars we're going back to creation thoughts of collapsing stars we're seeing spirals in the sun and thoughts of collapsing stars i rowed to the other side then i rowed back again to the edge of the outer limits and then along you came
classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film
opening drone, vinyl surface sounds & vinyl section from 1 hour 12 minutes
(w/ minor edits)
polish streets
cast out this wicked dream
(see : thomas köner & jürgen reble tabula smaragdina from kaamos
and work by keith berry)
sound design - david lynch
sound mixer, supervisor, re-recording mixer - dean hurley, ronald eng
music - marek zebrowski, krzysztof penderecki (als jakob erwachte)
related recordings:
jürgen reble & thomas köner - materia obscura sonic acts
- william basinski / works
- keith berry / works
- black swan - in 8 movements - ethereal symphony/experimedia - 2010
- ákos garai - til ødslig horisont - trente oiseaux - 2005
- john hudak / works
- philip jeck / works
- basil kirchin - worlds within worlds - emi columbia - 1971
- basil kirchin - worlds within worlds - island records - 1974
- thomas köner / works
- jean-françois laporte - soundmatters - 23five - 2007
- lustmord / works
- machinefabriek - marijn - lampse - 2006
- stephan mathieu / works
- nurse with wound - salt marie celeste - united dairies - 2003
- nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith - united dairies - 2003
- dj olive - buoy - room40 - 2004
- dj olive - sleep - room40 - 2006
- dj olive - triage - room40 - 2008
- yui onodera - suisei - and/oar - 2007
- adam pacione / works
- akira rabelais / works
- steve roden / works
- simon scott / works
- colin andrew sheffield / works
- stars of the lid / works
classic drone series sound, sound design, music in film
opening - blue velvet / man watering yard and dog / drone and camera goes underground
stairway and hallway, ambient sounds (repetition of notes in background / melody)
rossellini apartment, ambient sounds (melody repetition in background)
dream after leaving rossellini apartment
industrial music, driving with thunder
music - angelo badalamenti roy orbison (in dreams) , julee cruise (mysteries of love), ketty lester (love letters), bobby vinton (blue velvet) sound design - alan splet
(the score makes direct quotations from shostakovich's 15th symphony, which lynch had been listening to regularly while writing the screenplay ***)
classic drone series sound, sound design, music in film
opening sequence (some minor edits)
elevator drone, ends with reel to reel spinning, sounds like birds
dream sequence - train heard, not seen
music- david shire sound editor, sound montage, sound re-recordist - walter murch
the radio mikes we had back then were not that good, and they picked up miscellaneous static and the microwave transmissions that swamp a city like san francisco. that meant that the actual soundtrack we were getting at the time of filming was about as imperfect as the track that harry himself records in union square! everything would be fine, and then suddenly there'd be the sweep of a microwave pulse across the track. you'd hear distortion and some garbled tonality that would obliterate everything else. i used some of that noise in the finished film; as noise, it's very good.
from the conversations: walter murch and the art of editing (michael ondaatje) - knopf - 2002
other films with walter murch on sound:
- francis ford coppola - the rain people - 1969 - george lucas - thx 1138 - 1970 - francis ford coppola - the godfather - 1972 - francis ford coppola - the godfather, part ii - 1974 - francis ford coppola - apocalypse now - 1979 - peter medak - romeo is bleeding - 1994 - anthony minghella - the english patient - 1996 - anthony minghella - the talented mr. ripley - 1999 - francis ford coppola - apocalypse now redux - 2001
peter weir - dead poets society - 1989
opening credits - reverberant space (dialogue cut out)
going to the first meeting of the dead poets (david hykes)
howard hawkes - rio bravo - 1959
opening sequence with dean martin looking for a drink in the cantina
robert bresson - pickpocket - 1959
opening sequence at the races, repetition of ticketing devise (exaggerated)
doors, footsteps and car drones
subway, pickpocket activities, footsteps
car drone repetitions which are looped and layered throughout film,
train stations sounds, footsteps, distant electronic voices
terrence malick - badlands - 1973
train speeding by
car chase
martin scorsese - shutter island - 2010
boat ride to shutter island, flash back (includes record player no. one)
voice fades when women becomes visible
record player no. two - it's mahler
record player no. three - memory of nazi's office
record player no. four - wife flash back two
record player no. five - nazi's office
thunder / john cage (with voices, snow fall, and a girl's voice) / mahler
the sea / man falling into the sea (heard, not seen) / feldman's rothko chapel /
jürgen reble & thomas köner - materia obscura sonic acts
david lynch - blue velvet - 1986
rossellini apartment, ambient sounds (melody repetition in background)
dream after leaving rossellini apartment
industrial music, driving with thunder
francis ford coppola - the conversation - 1974
