dedicated to the man in the planet's sister

david lynch - eraserhead - 1977

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

david lynch - music
alan splet - sound editor, sound effects, location sound

david lynch - sound effects

la société des poètes disparus

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

in dreams

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 * **)

by the throat

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)