Monday, June 20, 2011

såsom i en spegel



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

Saturday, June 18, 2011

nattvardsgästerna



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

Monday, June 13, 2011

shadowings


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

Friday, June 10, 2011

univers du western - true grit






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

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

lind, raud, aastaajad (oiseaux invisibles forthcoming)

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)

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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

Monday, April 4, 2011

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

Monday, March 21, 2011

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

Monday, March 14, 2011

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