devil out of hell

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

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

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

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

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

forest notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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