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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

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

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).

the perfect mediocrity, no better, no worse

stanley kubrick, the killing, 1956
cinematography by lucien ballard
with kola kwariani and sterling hayden