the art of memory

each two pages are a garden of sounds

2012-01-23T11:57:00.000-08:00

tarrl lightowler & matthew swiezynski - each two pages are a garden of sounds - 2011
guitar, percussion, camera, ryoanji, birds, pt reyes

the turin horse

2012-01-17T20:24:00.000-08:00

béla tarr & ágnes hranitzky - the turin horse - 2011

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

the fifth day : mihály vig and the omnipresent wind drone, heard in the distance

mihály vig - music
gábor ifj. erdélyi - sound mixer, supervising sound editor
jános csáki, csaba erös, istván pergel - sound recordists

without the wolves

2012-01-10T13:08:00.000-08:00

ingenting's fragments of night featured on the recent framework radio
mixed with various field recordings by pali meursault, jd zazie, alexander baker
(constructed by patrick mcginley, aka murmer)

(our next release features murmer, y. dauby and j. grzinich : ib005)

the funeral

2012-01-05T17:45:00.000-08:00

abel ferrara - the funeral - 1996

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

joe delia - music
mel zelniker - re-recording engineer
greg sheldon - supervising sound editor
rosa howell-thornhill - sound mixer

jog to right down there sir

2012-01-04T17:37:00.000-08:00

albert maysles, david maysles and charlotte zwerin - salesman - 1968

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

sound to ending credits, looped 3 times

dick vorisek - sound mixer
maurice schell - apprentice sound editor

(first image reminiscent of truffaut's ending from the 400 blows, remaining images reminiscent of ed ruscha's photo books)

the 400 blows

2012-01-03T20:29:00.000-08:00

françois truffaut - les quatre cents coups - 1959

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

zoetrope section

jean constantin - music
jean-claude marchetti - sound
jean labussière - sound assistant

MMXI

2011-12-27T16:33:00.000-08:00

most listened to music in 2011 :

- andrew chalk - violin by night - faraway press - lp

- taylor deupree & marcus fischer - in a place of such graceful shapes - 12k - cd + 7"

- lawrence english - the peregrine - experimedia - lp

- fennesz - seven stars - touch - 10"

- fire! with jim o'rourke - unreleased? - rune grammofon - lp

- tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 - kranky - lp

- ingenting kollektiva - fragments of night - oiseaux invisibles - lp

- stephan mathieu - a static place - 12k - cd

- nils petter molvaer - baboon moon - columbia - cd

- the necks - mindset - rer megacorp - cd

- mickey newbury - looks like rain - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - frisco mabel joy - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - heaven help the child - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - better days - drag city - lp

- ohayo (andreas söderström, johan berthling, per eklund) - "the state we are in" - häpna - cd

- nils økland & sigbjørn apeland - lysøen - hommage à ole bull - ecm - cd

- popul vuh - werner herzog soundtracks - spv - cd boxset reissue

- radiohead - the king of limbs - ticker tape ltd/xl recordings - lp

- john surman - flashpoint: ndr jazz workshop - april '69 - cuneiform records - cd + dvd

- david sylvian - died in the wool | manafon variations - samadhisound - cd

- talk talk - laughing stock - ba da bing - lp reissue
- mark hollis - mark hollis - ba da bing - lp reissue

- tindersticks - claire denis film scores 1996-2009 - constellation - 5 lps

- chris watson - el tren fantasma - touch cd + lp

books :

- morton feldman - vertical thoughts: morton feldman and the visual arts - irish museum of modern art

- richard serra - richard serra drawing: a retrospective - the menil collection

- rob young - electric eden: unearthing britain's visionary music - faber & faber

movies / dvd / bluray :

- tomas alfredson - tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

- terrence malick - the tree of life

- steve mcqueen - shame

- béla tarr & ágnes hranitzky - the turin horse

- krzysztof kieślowski - three colors - criterion

- sidney lumet - 12 angry men - criterion (esp. the supplement : john bailey discusses boris kaufman)

- roman polanski - cul-de-sac - criterion

- ken loach - kes - criterion

(a condensed list of the many albums we enjoyed this year. which are usually posted here)

noyé par des voix

2011-12-27T15:22:00.000-08:00

(tarrl lightowler image for arthur de eriomém's on line release)

more music from 2011 (in addition to our smaller list)

- luigi turra - ki - and/oar
- kraig grady - our rainy weason / nuilagi - either/oar
- lethe - dry ice on steel tables - either/oar
- kiyoshi mizutani & kiyoharu kuwayama - interlude - either/oar
- tom waits - bad as me deluxe edition - anti-
- yannick dauby & wan-shuen tsai (shijingren) - treasure - atelier hui-kan

- scott tuma - peeper / love songs loud and lonely - bathetic records
- morton feldman - last composition: piano, violin, viola, cello (aki takahashi, mifune tsuji, matthijs bunschoten, tadashi tanaka) - bvhaast

- colin stetson - new history warfare vol. 2 = judges = - constellation
- colin stetson - those who didn't run - constellation
- ar - wolf notes - corbel stone press
- john luther adams - four thousand holes - cold blue music

- akron/family - s/t ii: the cosmic birth and journey of shinju tnt - dead oceans
- king creosote & jon hopkins - diamond mine - domino
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch/digitalis - lp reissue
- bill callahan - apocalypse - drag city
- six organs of admittance - asleep on the floodplain - drag city

- sinikka langeland w/ arve henriksen, trygve seim, anders jormin, markku ounaskari - the land that is not - ecm
- giovanna pessi & susanna wallumrød - if grief could wait - ecm
- george ivanovitch gurdjieff - music of georges i. gurdjieff - ecm
- maurizio bianchi - hibernum - ee tapes
- rick reed - the way things go - elevator bath
- black swan - the quiet divide - experimedia

- loren connors - red mars - family vineyard

- jim haynes - the decline effect - helen scarsdale agency
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - big shadow montana - helen scarsdale agency
- alio die - honeysuckle - hic sunt leones

- arthur de eriomém - drowned by voices (japanese traditional music for four shakuhachi discovered by riley kelly lee and ralph samuelson) - invisible birds
- jessika kenney & eyvind kang - aestuarium - ideologic organ / editions mego - lp reissue
- sandy denny - the north star grassman and the ravens - island records - 2cd reissue (second disc has some great tracks)
- scott tuma - not for nobody - digitalis/immune - lp reissue
- tape - revelationes - immune/häpna
- james blackshaw - holly ep - important records

- bon iver - bon iver - jagjaguwar
- bon iver - calgary - jagjaguwar
- fovea hex - here is where we used to sing - janet records (w/ michael begg, colin potter and william basinski remix)

- tim hecker - dropped pianos - kranky
- sigur rós - inni - krúnk

- elodie (andrew chalk, timo van luijk) – echos pastoraux - la scie dorée
- stephan mathieu - remain - line

- simon scott - bunny - miasmah

- björk - biophilia - one little indian
- john cage - 108, 109, 110 - ogreogress

- six organs of admittance - maria kapel - pavilion (love tracks 1 & 8)

- alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto - summvs - raster-noton
- steinbrüchel - narrow - room40

- low - c'mon- sub pop records
- the hafler trio & autechre - ah3eo & ha3oe (ae3o3) - simply superior/die stadt
- jim o'rourke & christoph heemann - plastic palace people vol. 1 - streamline
- bellows (giuseppe ielasi, nicola ratti) - handcut - senufo editions
- eliane radigue - geelriandre / arthesis - senufo editions
- kassel jaeger - algae - senufo editions
- miles davis - miles davis quintet: live in europe 1967 - the bootleg series vol. 1 - sony
- kammerflimmer kollektief - teufelskamin - staubgold

- radiohead - supercollider/the butcher - ticker tape ltd
- hildur gudnadottir - without sinking - touch - lp reissue
- yannick dauby - arches - touch radio
- chris watson & marcus davidson - cross pollination - touch
- deceh - fundamental structures - the tapeworm
- jazkamer - chestnut thornback tar - type

- adrian dziewanski - orbital decay - vacant tapes

- karlheinz stockhausen / zeitkratzer - old school: karlheinz stockhausen - zeitkratzer records

ib004.5 (special preorder edition)

2011-12-11T13:08:00.000-08:00

fragments of night ib004

sadly, we found most copies of our new record to have a manufacturing error.
the manufacturer is in the process of making new copies, and we should get them in 3-4 weeks.

as a thank you to customers that have already purchased the record, and customers that preorder it, we have made a special edition *, which is the standard record with a bonus dvdr of a film by diane granahan and matthew swiezynski, titled i can feel the see falling over my head *

the video is a transcendental recording of diane granahan playing the harmonium, lit only by fireplace. the sound of the harmonium gently mingles with the crackling of wood.

a copy of this fine film, as well as a download coupon, will be included with all prepayments made from now until the ship date.

thanks for the patience.

oiseaux invisibles/the art of memory

i was never worse fitted since the nativitie of my actorshippe (part two, cassavetes related)

2011-11-28T15:17:00.000-08:00

john cassavetes *

- alfred hitchcock presents: you got to have luck - 1956, robert stevens
- crime in the streets - 1956, don siegel
- edge of the city - 1957, martin ritt
- shadows - 1959, john cassavetes
- the killers - 1964, don siegel
- the alfred hitchcock hour: water's edge - 1964, bernard girard
- the alfred hitchcock hour: murder case - 1964, john brahm
- the dirty dozen - 1967, robert aldrich
- rosemary's baby - 1968, roman polanski
- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- columbo: etude in black - 1972
- mickey and nickey - 1976, elaine may
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- the tempest - 1982, paul mazursky
- love streams - 1984, john cassavetes

elsie ames *

- various buster keaton shorts in the early forties
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes

val avery *

(minnie and moskowitz restaurant scene, with rowlands and cassel)

- the harder they fall - 1956, mark robson
- edge of the city - 1957, martin ritt
- the long, hot summer - 1958, martin ritt
- last train from gun hill - 1959, john sturges
- the magnificent seven - 1960, john sturges
- hud - 1963, martin ritt
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- vanishing point - 1971, richard c. sarfian
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- papillon - 1973, franklin j. schaffner
- columbo, 4 shows - 1971-75
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes
- the pope of greenwich village - 1984, stuart rosenberg
- donnie brasco - 1997, mike newell

timothy carey *

- the wild one - 1953, laslo benedek
- crime wave - 1954, andré de toth
- east of eden - 1955, elia kazan
- the killing - 1956, stanley kubrick
- paths of glory - 1957, stanley kubrick
- one-eyed jacks - 1961, marlon brando
- various columbo episodes 71-76
- the world's greatest sinner - 1962, timothy carey
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976 - john cassavetes

katherine cassavetes *

- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes

seymour cassel *

- shadows - 1959, john cassavetes
- the killers - 1964, don siegel
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- coogan's bluff - 1968, don siegel
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- love streams - 1984, john cassavetes
- colors - 1988, dennis hopper
- in the soup - 1992, alexandre rockwell
- trees lounge - 1996, steve buscemi
- rushmore - 1998, wes anderson
- animal factory - 2000, steve buscemi
- the royal tenenbaums - 2001, wes anderson
- the life aquatic with steve zissou - 2004, wes anderson
- lonesome jim, 2005, steve buscemi

fred draper *

- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- various columbo episodes - 1971-76
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes

peter falk *

- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- columbo - 1971-2003, richard levinson & william link
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- mickey and nickey - 1976, elaine may
- opening night -1977, john cassavetes
- the in-laws - 1979, arthur hiller
- wings of desire - 1987, wim wenders

mario gallo *

- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- raging bull - 1980, martin scorsese

ben gazzara *

- anatomy of a murder - 1959, otto preminger
- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- saint jack - 1979, peter bogdanovich
- road house - 1989, rowdy herrington
- buffalo '66 - 1998, vincent gallo
- the big lebowski - 1998, coen brothers
- happiness - 1998, todd solondz
- summer of sam - 1999, spike lee
- dogville - 2003, lars von trier

john marley *

- kiss of death - 1947, henry hathaway
- the naked city - 1947, jules dassin
- i want to live, 1958 robert wise
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- love story - 1970, arthur hiller
- the godfather - 1972, francis ford coppola (horse in the bed)

gina rowlands *

- shadows - 1959, john cassavetes
- lonely are the brave - 1962, david miller
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- the tempest - 1982, paul mazursky
- love streams - 1984, john cassavetes
- night on earth - 1991, jim jarmusch

lady rowlands *

- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes

al ruban *

- madigan - 1968, don siegel
- coogan's bluff - 1968, don siegel
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976 - john cassavetes

eddie shaw *

- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes

jon voight * (played in the stage production of love streams)

- midnight cowboy - 1969, john schlesinger
- deliverance - 1972, john boorman
- runaway train - 1985, andrey konchalovskiy
- heat - 1995, michael mann

actorshippe list two
select filmographies
title found in the oed under "actorship", marston 1598
we enjoyed the smooth sounds of joy division's closer and hildur guðnadóttir's without sinking (both on lp) while editing this survey

ingenting kollektiva's fragments of night now available

2011-11-16T13:31:00.000-08:00

(mix of iboo4)

finally available, after two years in the making : ingenting kollektiva's fragments of night, issued on the art of memory's label invisible birds.

ingenting kollektiva is comprised of diane granahan, kirston lightowler, tarrl lightowler, and matthew swiezynski, and is an homage to the films of ingmar bergman and sven nykvist.
the kollektiva recordings are meditations on the quality of light, sound, and atmosphere, as well as realizations of the various forms of "nothingness" captured by these 2 masters.

christmas of 2009, the kollektiva found themselves surrounded with many recordings from the year 1969 -
including miles davis & teo macero's in a silent way and bitches brew
john surman's way back when, how many clouds can you see?, and extrapolation (with john mclauglin)
bert jansch's birthday blues
vashti bunyan's just another diamond day (recorded december 1969)
fairport convention's unhalfbricking
jan garbarek & terje rypdal's esoteric circle
king crimson's in the court of the crimson king
scott walker's scott walker 4
holger czukay's canaxis
(plus many more).

with this in mind, they recorded some songs in the lightowlers' barn during a rainstorm, and later added recordings from northern california and los angeles. the editing process then became something similar to macero's work for miles davis.

the recording has been issued as a long play record with a gatefold sleeve and photographs by tarrl lightowler. thanks so much to taylor deupree for bringing many layers & hidden sounds to life in these recordings, and arthur de eriomém for producing the album.

more information here *

cable disengaged / lost in space

2011-10-24T13:46:00.000-07:00

erik skjoldbjærg - insomnia - 1997

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

biosphere (geir jenssen) - soundtrack
randall meyers - sound designer
petter fladeby - sound re-recording mixer
erik s. watland - sound editor

relevant biosphere recordings

- biosphere - insomnia - origo sound - 1997 (beatservice records 2007)
- biosphere / deathprod – nordheim transformed - rune grammofon - 1998
- biosphere - cirque - touch - 2000
- biosphere – substrata² (esp. the track poa alpina) - touch - 2001
(substrata originally released in 1997)
- hazard / fennesz / biosphere – light - touch - 2001
(track : algae & fungi [candelaria version])
- biosphere – shenzhou - touch - 2002
- biosphere – autour de la lune - touch - 2004
- biosphere – dropsonde - touch - 2005/2006
- biosphere - spring fever from touch 25 - touch - 2006
- biosphere - outside by the fjord - touch - 2010

- biosphere - soundtrack for erik skjoldbjærg's nokas - 2010

(last three images from touch recordings)

the birds (manifold shrieks)

2011-10-23T15:46:00.000-07:00

alfred hitchcock - the birds - 1963
(daphne du maurier story)

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

oskar sala - electronic sound production and composition
remi gassmann - electronic sound production and composition
bernard herrmann - sound consultant

the trautonium, invented in berlin in 1930, is still considered today one of the most versatile and interesting instruments of the early electronic instruments. the fact that it could produce sounds far more complex than the piano meant that a wide variety of applications were found for it. from producing the manifold background shrieks and screeches in alfred hitchcock's film the birds (1963).... the trautonium has played a key role in the development of electronic and atmospheric music.

from mark prendergast's the ambient century

the infinity of nothingness

2011-10-05T11:47:00.000-07:00

- bert jansch - bert jansch - transatlantic - 1965
- bert jansch - it don't bother me - transatlantic - 1965
- bert jansch - jack orion - transatlantic - 1966
- bert jansch and john renbourn - bert and john - transatlantic - 1966
- bert jansch - nicola - transatlantic - 1967
- bert jansch - birthday blues - transatlantic - 1969
- bert jansch - rosemary lane - transatlantic - 1971
- bert jansch - moonshine - reprise - 1973
- bert jansch - l.a. turnaround - charisma - 1974
- bert jansch - the black swan - drag city - 2006

- pentangle - the pentangle - transatlantic records - 1968
- pentangle - sweet child - transatlantic records - 1968
- pentangle - basket of light - transatlantic records - 1969
- pentangle - cruel sister - transatlantic records - 1970
- pentangle - reflection - transatlantic records - 1971
- pentangle - solomon's seal - reprise records - 1972
- pentangle - lost broadcasts: 1968-1972 - hux records - 2004
- pentangle - the time has come: 1967-1973 - sanctuary records - 2007

- bert jansch - dazzling stranger: bert jansch and the british folk and blues revival (colin harper) - bloomsbury - 2000/2006

so early in the spring
a flower dances in my heart
where love was not before
for you i sing my song of love
and lowly bow

of love and lullaby

bert jansch (3 november 1943 - 5 october 2011), along with miles davis and teo macero, the biggest influence on our forthcoming 1969 record on invisible birds, sad to see him go.
nothing, if not.., above everything

(here are some recordings we have all enjoyed here at the art of memory)

voth - boot aus stein

2011-09-22T18:20:00.000-07:00

hannsjörg voth and ingrid amslinger - boot aus stein - verlag far moderne kunst - 1983

2011-09-16T22:13:00.000-07:00

francis ford coppola - rumble fish - 1983

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

sound designer - richard beggs (apocalypse now, repo man, children of men)

circles - tristesse engraved

2011-09-03T00:00:00.000-07:00

how soon unaccountable i became tired and sick,
till rising and gliding out i wander’d off by myself,
in the mystical moist night-air,
and from time to time,
look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.*
capturing light - walt whitman -
when i heard the learn’d astonomer

images -
séraphine louis - fruit (frucht)
william langenheim and frederick langenheim - eclipse - 26 may 1854
susan derges - chladni figures - 1985
anders ritter von ettingshausen - section of clematis - 4 march 1840
rosalind franklin and r.c. gosling - x-ray diffraction patterns of a and b forms of sodium salt of dna - 1952
amédée guillemin - polychrome interference patterns, le monde physique - 1882
susan derges - hermetica (detail) - 1993
giuseppe pellizza da volpedo - the rising sun - 1904
alfred stevens - the milky way - 1885-1886

various image selections of mine have been included in the september issue of tristesse engraved - please take a look at it .
(many thanks to jez riley french for his generous efforts in helping to get this all out on time)

i was never worse fitted since the nativitie of my actorshippe (part one)

2011-08-30T23:56:00.000-07:00

ingrid bergman *

- intermezzo - 1939, gregory ratoff
- casablanca - 1942, michael curtiz
- for whom the bell tolls - 1943, sam wood
- gaslight - 1944, george cukor
- spellbound - 1945, alfred hitchcock
- the bells of st. mary's - 1945, leo mccarey
- notorious - 1946, alfred hitchcock
- arch of triumph - 1948, lewis milestone
- under capricorn - 1949, alfred hitchcock
- stromboli - 1950, roberto rossellini
- journey to italy - 1954, roberto rossellini
- anastasia - 1956, anatole litvak
- indiscreet - 1958, stanley donen
- the inn of the sixth happiness - 1958, mark robson
- goodbye again - 1961, anatole litvak
- cactus flower - 1969, gene saks
- murder on the orient express - 1974, sidney lumet
- autumn sonata - 1978, ingmar bergman

bryan craynston *

- seinfeld (dentist) - 1994-97
- saving private ryan - 1998, steven spielberg
- breaking bad - 2008, vince gilligan
- drive - 2011, nicolas winding refn
- contagion - 2011, steven soderbergh

giancarlo esposito *

- do the right thing - 1989, spike lee
- king of new york - 1990, abel ferrara
- harley davidson and the marlboro man - 1991, simon wincer
- night on earth - 1991, jim jarmusch
- malcolm x - 1992, spike lee
- smoke - 1995, paul auster
- breaking bad - 2008-2011, vince gilligan

luis guzmán *

- q & a - 1990, sidney lumet
- carlito's way - 1993, brian de palma
- boogie nights - 1997, paul thomas anderson
- out of sight - 1998, steven soderbergh
- the limey - 1999, steven soderbergh
- magnolia - 1999, paul thomas anderson
- traffic - 2000, steven soderbergh
- punch-drunk love - 2002, paul thomas anderson
- welcome to collinwood - 2002, anthony & joe russo

trevor howard *

- the way ahead - 1944, carol reed
- the way to the stars (aka johnny in the clouds) - 1945, anthony asquith
- brief encounter - 1945, david lean
- i see a dark stranger - 1946, frank launder
- green for danger - 1946, sidney gilliat
- they made me a fugitive - 1947, alberto cavalcanti
- the third man - 1949, carol reed
- golden salamander - 1950, ronald neame
- the clouded yellow - 1950, ralph thomas
- outcast of the islands - 1951, carol reed
- sons and lovers - 1960, jack cardiff
- the charge of the light brigade - 1968, tony richardson (good performance, don't like the film)
- ryan's daughter - 1970, david lean
- the offence - 1972, sidney lumet
- superman - 1978, richard donner
- gandhi - 1982, richard attenborough

isabelle huppert *

- loulou - 1980, maurice pialat
- coup de torchon - 1981, bertrand tavernier
- the piano teacher - 2001, michael haneke
- time of the wolf - 2003, michael haneke

celia johnson *

- in which we serve - 1942, noel coward & david lean
- this happy breed - 1944, david lean
- brief encounter - 1945, david lean

klaus kinski *

"kinski was coming totally apart, totally crazed" herzog on commentary to cobra verde

- decision before dawn (whining soldier) - 1951, anatole litvak
- for a few dollars more - 1965, sergio leone
- doctor zhivago - 1965, david lean
- nosferatu the vampyre - 1979, werner herzog
- woyzeck - 1979, werner herzog
- fitzcarraldo - 1982, werner herzog
- cobra verde - 1987, werner herzog

vera miles *

- the searchers - 1956, john ford
- the wrong man - 1956, alfred hitchcock (my favourite hitchcock film)
- psycho - 1960, alfred hitchcock
- the man who shot liberty valance - 1962, john ford

sal mineo *

- rebel without a cause - 1955, nicholas ray
- crime in the streets - 1956, don siegel
- someone up there likes me - 1956, robert wise
- giant - 1956, george stevens
- cheyenne autumn - 1964, john ford

paul newman *

- someone up there likes me - 1956, robert wise
- the long, hot summer - 1958, martin ritt
- cat on a hot tin roof - 1958, richard brooks
- from the terrace - 1960, mark robson
- the hustler - 1961, robert rossen
- hud - 1963, martin ritt
- harper - 1966, jack smight
- torn curtain - 1966, alfred hitchcock
- cool hand luke - 1967, stuart rosenberg
- butch cassidy and the sundance kid - 1969, george roy hill
- pocket money - 1972, stuart rosenberg
- the mackintosh man - 1973, john huston
- the drowning pool - 1975, stuart rosenberg
- absence of malice - 1981, sydney pollack
- the verdict - 1982, sidney lumet
- the hudsucker proxy - 1994, coen brothers

tom sizemore *

- guilty by suspicion - 1991, irwin winkler
- point break - 1991, kathryn bigelow
- harley davidson and the marlboro man - 1991, simon wincer
- true romance - 1993, tony scott
- strange days - 1995, kathryn bigelow
- heat - 1995, michael mann
- saving private ryan - 1998, steven spielberg
- bringing out the dead - 1999, martin scorsese
- black hawk down - 2001, ridley scott

jacques tati *

- jour de fête - 1949, jacques tati
- mr. hulot's holiday - 1953, jacques tati
- mon oncle - 1958, jacques tati
- play time - 1967, jacques tati

fred ward *

- escape from alcatraz - 1979, don siegel
- the right stuff - 1983, philip kaufman
- the player - 1992, robert altman
(the only thing i like about this film is fred ward's character; obsessed with long takes and a bit sleezy)
- short cuts - 1993, robert altman

osker werner *

- decision before dawn - 1951, anatole litvak
- ship of fools - 1965, stanley kramer
- the spy who came in from the cold - 1965, martin ritt
- fahrenheit 451 - 1966, françois truffaut

actorshippe list one
select filmographies
title found in the oed under "actorship", marston 1598
we enjoyed the smooth sounds of the sex pistols while editing this survey

dark for dark business

2011-08-25T20:09:00.000-07:00

peter jackson - the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring - 2001

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

sound designer - david farmer
sound re-recording mixer - gethin creagh, michael hedges
re-recording mixer - christopher boyes, michael semanick
supervising sound editor - mike hopkins, ethan van der ryn
sound effects editor - john mckay, timothy nielsen, craig tomlinson
music - howard shore

the right stuff

2011-08-16T23:52:00.000-07:00

philip kaufman - the right stuff - 1983

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

sound re-recording mixer - todd boekelheide, thomas scott, andy wiskes
sound effects editor - john benson, tim holland, pat jackson, karen g. wilson
supervising sound editor - jay boekelheide
music - garth hudson, todd boekelheide, bill conti

"..when you watch the right stuff, when he (yeager) breaks the sound barrier, forget about all the excitement and listen to the soundtrack. what you'll hear, down deep in there, is garth hudson.
that's all him." levon helm

(for diane)

for a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria

2011-08-14T22:16:00.000-07:00

michael radford - nineteen eighty-four - 1984
(george orwell)

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother-

(2 sections combined)

sound editor - colin miller
re-recording mixer - trevor pyke
sound mixer - bruce white
music - dominic muldowney, eurythmics

specimens and marvels - tristesse engraved

2011-08-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

images - william henry fox talbot

photomicrograph of a crystal - study of polarized light -
albumenised paper print - ca. 1851

photomicrograph of interference patterns - study of polarized light through crystals - albumenised paper print - ca. 1851

photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light - calotype negative - ca. 1840

photomicrograph of interference pattern - study of polarized light through crystals - albumenised paper print - ca. 1851

page 197: horatia at her harp - salt paper print from a calotype negative - ca. 1843

(all images can be found in the august 2011 issue of tristesse engraved, a first in a series that i am contributing various art of memory images to)

printed from nature

2011-08-05T14:20:00.000-07:00

magnolia glauca from edward parrish's the phantom bouquet - 1862
wood engraving of leaf skeletons by a. wilhelm
found in the book impressions of nature: a history of nature printing by roderick cave

but only felt in myself night

2011-08-03T18:55:00.000-07:00

agnes martin - homage to life - 2003

i invented nothing, but only felt in myself night and saw in it the new, and this new i name suprematism, and it expressed itself to me as a black plane that has formed a square.
kazimir malevich

image & words from the book malevich and the american legacy - gagosian gallery - 2003

le canard cahiers

2011-08-01T15:16:00.000-07:00

matthew swiezynski - le canard cahiers - 11.21.1999 (4 1/4" x 6 1/4")
(ducks in water one, excerpts)

ingenting kollektiva - side a (excerpt) to heighten the visuals

mont blanc fountain pen (chopin/rouge *), water, paper

drawings done while reading lots of french poetry (mallarmé, jabès, rilke, ponge, bonnefoy, tzara, baudelaire, jaccottet, etc.) and many of the oulipo writers

sound - duet between matthew swiezynski on harmonium and kirston lightowler on psaltery
from forthcoming invisible birds release *

my name is mud... give me a drink

2011-07-22T19:52:00.000-07:00

some music from
john cassavetes' - the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

my name is mud

heavy

to be one with the lady i love... what is that junk called?

music/sound - bo harwood
sound mixer - robert (buzz) knudson

will some music throw you off your stride

2011-07-21T21:55:00.000-07:00

david lean - brief encounter - 1945

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

celia johnson's inner voice hushed in relation to her neighbor's chatter
(reminiscent of carl boehm's voice in peeping tom)

volume on the stereo lowers as celia johnson's mind wonders to her love

sound editor - harry miller
music - muir mathieson, percival mackey

the man's contact man

2011-07-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

peter yates - the friends of eddie coyle - 1973

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

city sounds (boston), bar ambience

music - victor j. kemper
sound editor - ron kalish, richard p. cirincione
sound recordist - richard raguse
sound re-recordist - dick vorisek

raging bull

2011-07-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

martin scorsese - raging bull - 1980

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

la motta vs. sugar ray robinson
detroit 1943
sound mirrors slow motion camera

la motta vs. sugar ray robinson
detroit 1943 3rd fight
from the bathroom with music to the fight (heat & animal sounds)

la motta vs. sugar ray robinson
defeat
(2 sections combined)

sound mixer - michael evje, les lazarowitz, bill wylie
sound effects editor - gary s. gerlich, chester slomka
recordist - walter a. gest, gary ritchie
re-recording engineer - david j. kimball, donald o. mitchell, bill nicholson
assistant sound effects editor - victoria martin
sound effects supervising editor - frank e. warner
foley artist - ken dufva
music editor - jim henrikson

cranes

2011-07-11T15:27:00.000-07:00

mikhail kalatozov - the cranes are flying - 1957

sound, sound design, music in film

abstract train

bus ride to tanks

music - moisey vaynberg
sound effects editor - kevin adickes

king kong

2011-07-10T12:06:00.000-07:00

merian c. cooper & ernest b. schoedsack - king kong - 1933

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

street sounds

ship sounds (dialogue removed)

fog, discovering the island

kong (screams edited)

kong and dinasour fight (edited)

music - max steiner
sound effects, sound designer - murray spivack
recorded by - earl a. wolcott
sound effects associate - walter elliott
sound recordist - eddie harman
sound re-recording mixer - clem portman

eastern promises

2011-07-06T20:56:00.000-07:00

david cronenberg - eastern promises - 2007

classic drone series

sound, sound design, music in film

opening credits, thunder & rain

you must make the wood cry

rain (i am driver)

prostitute singing

ochi chernye

music - howard shore
sound re-recording mixer - christian t. cooke, mark zsifkovits, orest sushko
supervising sound editor - michael o'farrell, wayne griffin
sound effects editor - rob bertola
sound mixer - stuart wilson
dialogue editor - alastair gray

såsom i en spegel

2011-06-20T22:02:00.000-07:00

ingmar bergman - through a glass darkly - 1961
cinematography by sven nykvist

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

corne de brume / une certaine eau

*****

water, fog horn, stones, rain, j.s. bach, motor
(dialogue edited out)

sound - staffan dalin, stig flodin
music - j.s. bach, erik nordgren

nattvardsgästerna

2011-06-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

ingmar bergman - winter light - 1963
cinematography by sven nykvist

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

jonas persson est mort / une certaine eau

*****

sound effects - evald andersson
sound - stig flodin & brian wikström

shadowings

2011-06-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

masaki kobayashi - kwaidan - 1964

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

horse & ghost from the black hair + soundtrack
(link expired)

music - tôru takemitsu
sound designer - tôru takemitsu
sound - hideo nishizaki

univers du western - true grit

2011-06-10T11:35:00.000-07:00

cohen brothers - true grit - 2010
liminal opening shot
cinematographer - roger deakins

lind, raud, aastaajad (oiseaux invisibles forthcoming)

2011-06-01T09:55:00.000-07:00

yannick dauby - john grzinich - murmer : lind, raud, aastaajad
forthcoming on invisible birds

cd1 : lind, raud - songs of birds and metal
field recordings by yannick dauby estonia
(june 2007)

cd2: aastaajad - composition and field recordings by
john grzinich & murmer (patrick mcginley)
electronic sounds by yannick dauby
(november 2010 - may 2011)

(photography by tarrl lightowler)

devil out of hell

2011-05-05T20:28:00.000-07:00

sidney j. furie - the entity - 1982

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

three entity drones (dialogue cut out)

music - charles bernstein
sound mixer - willie d. burton
sound re-recording mixer - gregg landaker, steve maslow
sound effects editor - keith stafford
sound re-recording mixer - bill varney

time, rhythm and editing

2011-04-28T21:54:00.000-07:00

andrei tarkovsky - the mirror - 1975

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

rain, fire, melody, drone

there must be other ways of working with sound, ways which would allow one to be more accurate, more true to the inner world which we try to reproduce on screen; not just the author's inner world, but what lies within the world itself, what is essential to it and does not depend on us.

from sculpting in time, page 159

sound - semyon litvinov

they are lost in the gloom

2011-04-13T09:44:00.000-07:00

akira kurosawa - seven samurai - 1954

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

rain, drone

sound effects editor - ichirô minawa
sound assistant - masanao uehara
sound recordist - fumio yanoguchi
music - fumio hayasaka

title from donald richie's the films of akira kurosawa

drowned by voices

2011-04-04T16:14:00.000-07:00

arthur de eriomém - drowned by voices (japanese traditional music for four
shakuhachi discovered by riley kelly lee and ralph samuelson)
for diane

image - tarrl lightowler
title from david toop's sinister resonance

forest notes

2011-03-21T20:51:00.000-07:00

lumen * w/ 2 contributions by art of memory correspondent

- trees as wind instruments in bresson’s mouchette
- it is something invisible by matthew swiezynski

time starts now

2011-03-14T11:53:00.000-07:00

peter yates - bullitt - 1968

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

car chase
(link expired)

sound - john k. kean
sound re-recording mixer - dan wallin

le trou

2011-03-09T22:26:00.000-08:00

jacques becker - le trou - 1960

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

banging in le trou (making the hole)
sounds in the distance (heard in the beginning) help obscure

(link expired)

sound engineer - pierre-louis calvet

taxi driver : true force, all the kings men cannot put it back together again

2011-03-06T19:32:00.000-08:00

martin scorsese - taxi driver - 1976

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

taxi garage (rotating camera shot)

street, night

shooting (western sequence)

music - bernard herrmann
music editor - shinichi yamazaki
sound re-recording mixer - tex rudloff, rick alexander, vern poore
sound effects editor - frank e. warner, gordon davidson, james fritch,
sam gemette, david m. horton
sound recorder - roger pietschmann

la société des poètes disparus

2011-02-28T22:01:00.000-08:00

peter weir - dead poets society - 1989

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

opening credits - reverberant space (dialogue cut out)

going to the first meeting of the dead poets (david hykes)

suicide (david hykes)

music - david hykes - rainbow voice
sound - alan splet

rio bravo

2011-02-26T10:50:00.000-08:00

howard hawkes - rio bravo - 1959

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)

(number 11 of 500 detailing westerns)

pickpocket : footsteps, car loops, train drones and station ambience

2011-02-24T10:07:00.000-08:00

robert bresson - pickpocket - 1959

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

opening sequence at the races, repetition of ticketing devise (exaggerated)

doors, footsteps and car drones

subway, pickpocket activities, footsteps
(dialogue edited out, 3 sections combined)

car drone repetitions which are looped and layered throughout film,
either in the foreground, or background
(2 sections combined)

train stations sounds, footsteps, distant electronic voices
(voices similar to tati films)

sound - antoine archimbaud *

badlands

2011-02-20T17:23:00.000-08:00

terrence malick - badlands - 1973

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

train speeding by

car chase
zooming through a wire fence at 8 seconds

music - george aliceson tipton
sound effects - sam f. shaw
sound re-recording mixer - john wilkinson

lontano

2011-02-17T22:49:00.000-08:00

martin scorsese - shutter island - 2010

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

valentinus, butler's lives of the saints

2011-02-13T23:16:00.000-08:00

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

through the alley, behind the market place, this is the way to the past

2011-02-11T21:25:00.000-08:00

david lynch - inland empire - 2006 *

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
- dale lloyd / works
- 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

in dreams

2011-02-06T13:29:00.000-08:00

david lynch - blue velvet - 1986

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 * **)

the conversation

2011-02-02T22:29:00.000-08:00

francis ford coppola - the conversation - 1974

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

the getaway

2011-01-30T11:31:00.000-08:00

sam peckinpah - the getaway - 1972

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

opening sequence drone
(nice loops)

sound editor - michael colgan
sound re-recording mixer - richard portman
sound editor - josef von stroheim
sound mixer - charles m. wilborn
sound re-recordist (uncredited) - walter a. gest

the power of christ compels you

2011-01-27T07:18:00.000-08:00

william friedkin - the exorcist - 1973
(original version)

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

max von sydow & the devil - iraq

train / father, would you help an old alter boy

leaving hospital / drone

devil speaking + analysis of tape (some dialogue edited out)

also worthy of mention, the iraq sequence with vernacular music, then blacksmiths hammering, then a clock ticking

music:
- krzysztof penderecki & jack nitzsche - iraq
- mike oldfield - georgetown / tubular bells
- anton webern - five pieces for orchestra, op.10
- krzysztof penderecki - polymorphia
- krzysztof penderecki - string quartet (1960)
- harry bee - wind harp
- george crumb - night of the electric insects
- krzysztof penderecki - kanon for orchestra and tape
- mike oldfield - tubular bells
- hans werner henze - fantasia for strings
- the allman brothers -ramlin' man (bar scene)

friedkin said : had he heard the music of tangerine dream earlier, he would have had them score the exorcist. instead, he used modern classical compositions (from wikipedia)

sound - christopher newman
sound (iraq sequence) - jean-louis ducarme
dubbing mixer - buzz knudson
sound effects editors - fred brown & ross taylor
special sound effects - ron nagle, doc siegel, gonzalo gavira, bob fine
sound consultant - hal landaker
music editor - gene marks
the voice of the demon pazuzu - mercedes mccambridge

other films with christopher newman on sound:

- little murders (alan arkin) - 1971
- klute (alan j. pakula) - 1971
- the french connection (william friedkin) - 1971
- the godfather, production sound recordist * (francis ford coppola) - 1972
- mikey and nicky, production sound mixer (elaine may) - 1976
- tender mercies, sound mixer (bruce beresford) - 1983
- amadeus, sound recordist (milos forman) - 1984
- the mosquito coast, production sound recordist (peter weir) - 1986
- the unbearable lightness of being, production sound mixer) (philip kaufman) - 1988
- q & a, sound mixer (sidney lumet) - 1990
- the silence of the lambs, production sound mixer (jonathan demme) - 1991
- the english patient, sound recordist (anthony minghella)- 1996

all of them witches

2011-01-24T13:04:00.000-08:00

roman polanski - rosemary's baby - 1968

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

1. rain to komeda
2. new years, delay
3. rosemary disoriented, new york streets
4. phonebooth
5. elevator (some dialogue cut out)
6. rosemary discovers coven
(material not on ost)

(link expired)

also worthy of mention:
dream sequences
exaggerated clock ticking after child birth

music - krzysztof komeda
sound recordist - harold lewis

relevant soundtracks:
- krzysztof komeda - knife in the water - 1962
- krzysztof komeda - the hunger (henning carlsen) - 1966
- krzysztof komeda - cul-de-sac - 1966
- krzysztof komeda - the rearless vampire killers - 1967
- krzysztof komeda - music from the original motion pictures - 8-cd box set

..emphasizing music and sounds as an equal counterpart to images.
manfred eicher on komeda

slow / the offence

2011-01-22T20:50:00.000-08:00

sidney lumet - the offence - 1972

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

slowed down sound from the opening sequence

sound editor - chris greenham
sound mixer - simon kaye

related recordings:

- keith berry / works
- thomas köner / works
- bass communion - ghosts on magnetic tape - headphone dust - 2004
- andrew chalk & mirror / work
- nurse with wound - salt marie celeste - united dairies - 2003
- colin andrew sheffield / works
- tod dockstader - aerial #1-3 - sub rosa

(thanks to lorrat lmièré for bringing this film to our attention)

mulholland drive

2011-01-20T01:20:00.000-08:00

david lynch - mulholland dr. - 2001

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

taxi / roy orbison (il n'a pas un orchestre dialogue edited out) / arriving home
drone comes in when singer (rebekah del rio) faints, singing continues

closing montage

sound/music during credit

music - angelo badalamenti, david lynch and john neff
(roy orbison & joe melson)
sound design - david lynch

david lynch - sound, sound design, music, lyrics:

- the alphabet - 1968 (sound)
- the grandmother - 1970 (sound effects)
- eraserhead - 1976 (sound effects, in heaven lyrics)
- the elephant man - 1980 (sound design)
- twin peaks - 1990-1991 (songs/lyrics)
- blue velvet - 1986 (composer: additional music, lyrics)
- wild at heart - 1990 (composer: additional music)
- twin peaks: fire walk with me - 1992 (sound design,
sound re-recording mixer *, additional music)
- hotel room - 1993 (sound design - 3 episodes)
- lost highway - 1997 (sound design, sound re-recording mixer, composer: additional music)
- the straight story - 1999 (sound design)
- mulholland dr. - 2001 (sound design, sound re-recording mixer, composer: additional music)
- inland empire - 2006 (sound design, sound re-recording mixer, additional music)

(many lynch posts forthcoming, above list will be refined some)

solaris (rezyseria: andreij tarkowski)

2011-01-18T20:46:00.000-08:00

andrei tarkovsky (andreij tarkowski) - solaris - 1972

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

a brief rainfall heard in the first few minutes of the film

beeps heard when kris kelvin and party are watching video interrogation
beeps occur when new person speaks (officially)
(i edited out some dialogue)

driving sequence

andrei tarkovsky - solaris - 1972
music - eduard artemiev
sound - semyon litvinov

related recordings:

- the work of mirror (andrew chalk, christoph heemann & sometimes andreas martin)
specifically solaris - idea - 2002
- eduard artemyev - solaris soundtrack - toei music - 1995
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa recordings
- deathprod & supersilent recordings (esp. the keyboards)
- arsenije jovanović - galiola: works for radio. 1967-2000 - fo a rm / and/oar - 2008
- various - another kind of language: dedicated to andrei tarkovsky - and/oar
w/ michael northam, jon tulchin, yannick dauby, dale lloyd, john hudak and others

phantom broadcast

2011-01-17T10:05:00.000-08:00

fritz lang - das testament des dr. mabuse - 1933

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

sound from opening sequence (factory sounds)

fritz lang - das testament des dr. mabuse - 1933
music - hans erdmann
sound - adolf jansen
sound editor - conrad von molo

see older post for images *

related recordings:

- jonathan coleclough / moments
- work by john duncan
(phantom broadcast - allquestions - 2002)
- lawrence english - incongruous harmonies - touch - 2010
- philip jeck / moments
- lethe / moments
- the work of daniel menche
- colin andrew sheffield / moments
- matt shoemaker / moments
- yellow swans - going places - type - 2010
- yellow swans - being there - type - 2010

by the throat

2011-01-15T22:53:00.000-08:00

carroll ballard - never cry wolf - 1983

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

intro music / train

wolf dream no. one / waking to hear baby mice

taking photos & nature sounds (w/ minor edits)

wolf dream no. two

caribou drone

music - mark isham
sound design - alan splet

also worthy of mention is the ice cracking sequence

other films with alan splet (cello player)
as sound designer:

"alan's strength, in my book, is based on 2 things.
one - his love of music. he loved classical music, .... rock and roll
didn't really exist for alan. he had a huge collection of classical
music. and his love and knowledge of electronics. he was a
creative engineer, he was a one man band...."
david lynch

"he was so good with music that he could slide a
few notes out so that no one could detect what he had done"
philip kaufman

w/ david lynch
- the grandmother - 1970
- eraserhead - 1976
- the elephant man - 1980
- dune - 1984
- blue velvet - 1986

w/ carroll ballard
- the black stallion - 1979

w/ philip kaufman
- the unbearable lightness of being - 1988

w/ peter weir
- the mosquito coast - 1986
- dead poets society - 1989

also
- days of heaven (special audio assistant) - 1978

related recordings:

- ben frost - by the throat - bedroom community - 2009
- the recordings of chris watson
- the recordings of yannick dauby
- the ambient work of brian eno (into)
- the recordings of john grzinich
- daniel menche - wolf's milk - utech records - 2007

(thanks to t. for supplying some nice splet links)

it is as if he had stolen it

2011-01-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

joseph cornell - rose hobart - 1936

sound, sound design, music in film

classic drone series - joseph cornell - rose hobart
music - nestor amaral and orchestra, looped

(link expired)

(thanks to sofia d'église for capturing sound)

redrum

2011-01-12T20:36:00.000-08:00

stanley kubrick - the shining - 1980

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

3 big wheel riding sequences combined
(big wheel sounds most likely created in post production,
but the visceral qualities of the steadicam
camerawork give it a sync sound quality)

bathroom scene

music:
- béla bartók - music for strings, percussion and celesta
- györgy ligeti - lontano
- krzysztof penderecki - utrenja, the awakening of jacob, de natura sonoris no. 2
- wendy carlos & rachel elkind - main theme, rocky mountains

sound editor - dino di campo
sound editor - jack t. knight
sound editor - winston ryder
sound recordist - ivan sharrock & richard daniel

related music, see previous kubrick posts * **

jupiter and beyond the infinite

2011-01-11T10:01:00.000-08:00

stanley kubrick - 2001: a space odyssey - 1968

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

17 minutes from the last part of the film jupiter and beyond the infinite
(taken from the film, not the ost)

(link expired)

also worthy of mention are the dawn of man sequences
and the ambient sections in space

music - györgy ligeti
sound editor - winston ryder
sound supervisor - a.w. watkins
sound mixer - h.l. bird
(made in 70mm format, with a six-track stereo magnetic soundtrack)

other films with winston ryder
as sound editor/designer:
"he had a unique ability to create atmospheres through
the skillful and selective use of sounds"
les hodgson

great expectations - 1946
oliver twist - 1948
breaking the sound barrier - 1952
summertime - 1955
the bridge on the river kwai - 1957
lawrence of arabia - 1962
doctor zhivago - 1965
the red tent - 1969
ryan's daughter - 1970/1
the last tycoon - 1976
the shining - 1980
w/ dino di campo & jack t. knight
heaven's gate - 1980

related recordings:

brian eno - apollo: atmospheres and soundtracks
morton feldman - neither, for samuel beckett
(and other late orchestral works)
györgy ligeti
krzysztof penderecki
giacinto scelsi
alfred schnittke
see previous post on a clockwork orange *

no time for the old in and out love. i've just come to read the meter

2011-01-09T14:13:00.000-08:00

stanley kubrick - a clockwork orange - 1971

sound, sound design, music in film

classic drone series - stanley kubricks's a clockwork orange
electronic music composed and realised by walter or wendy carlos
sound editor - brian blamey

related recordings:

- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - víkinga brennivín - helen scarsdale agency - 2005
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - drykkjuvísur ohljódanna - helen scarsdale agency - 2006
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - space finale - editions mego - 2010

- leif inge - 9 beet stretch

- deathprod - deathprod boxset - rune grammofon - 2004
- deathprod - 6-track - rune grammofon - 2006
- supersilent - supersilent 1-3 - rune grammofon - 1997
- supersilent - supersilent 4 - rune grammofon - 1998
- supersilent - supersilent 5 - rune grammofon - 2001
- supersilent - supersilent 6 - rune grammofon - 2003
- supersilent - supersilent 7 - rune grammofon - 2005
- supersilent - supersilent 8 - rune grammofon - 2007
- supersilent - supersilent 9 - rune grammofon - 2009
- supersilent - supersilent 10 - rune grammofon - 2010
- supersilent - supersilent 11 - rune grammofon - 2010

this is a new series which will be exclusive for the most part on the art of memory for a while.
the concentration is on sound, sound design & music in film, and the influence these soundtracks have had on contemporary drone music*.

there will be references to contemporary recordings that have some kind of connection to the film, these connections are just heard by us here at the art of memory, and are mainly the first ones that came to mind.

*the word drone music is used because other words don't seem appropriate, but it can include - field recording, experimental, electronic, other, etc.
the word is also used because it references works by artists such as la monte young, charlemagne palestine, eliane radigue, phill niblock, yoshi wada, hermann nitsch, krzysztof penderecki and john cage (his number pieces).
these artists have greatly shaped the way we hear things at the art of memory (a kind of filter).