all of them witches

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)

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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

the sublunar light with its softened colours

at times octavian even imagined he could see indistinct human forms flitting among the shadows, but they dissolved the moment they passed into the moonlit parts of the street. low whispering and indefinite murmurs drifted upon the silence. the solitary visitor at first attributed them to some nervous flicker of the eye, some tingling in his ears. or perhaps they were merely a trick of the light, the breath of the sea breeze, or the slither of a lizard or grass-snake through the nettles. for in the natural world, everything is alive, even inanimate matter; and everything has a sound, even silence.

théophile gautier - the tourist from my fantomes - nyrb - 2008
roman polanski - tess - 1979
cinematography by ghislain cloquet and geoffrey unsworth