Your favorite electronic & synth film scores

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Popol Vuh's score for Aguirre

  On 1/26/2010 at 5:24 AM, Z_B_Z said:

tobe hoopers score to eaten alive is incredibly abstract and great

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6LN0VF0RDM

 

and lets not forget mick jaggers primitive moog score to invocation of my demon brother

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaA2i6-SaSs

woah that eaten alive score is fucked up, i like it. I must have seen the movie a long time ago cause i dont remember that at all.

  On 1/26/2010 at 5:31 AM, joshuatxuk said:

 

Forbidden planet is pretty impressive and notable because it does NOT use a theremin. And it's a very impressive, non-cheesy 50's sci-fi movie. Instead a very early ring modulator was used, one that preceeded Dr. Who, Buchla, and Stockhausen by years.

 

 

interesting, i'll have to look into this more. Who made it?

aguirre

anything by wendy/walter carlos (the opening music for the Shining is mind blowing)

dawn of the dead (original)

anything by Giorgio Moroder (namely the Scarface theme... 83)

didn't Scanners have some sweet synth stuff in it, too?

yeah aguirres kind of like the peak of soundtrack work for me.. aside from maybe kubricks films

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOLpDYqNzk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP3NgkPQ5Wo&feature=related

big troubles from 86 but close enough

  On 1/26/2010 at 6:34 AM, jefferoo said:

 

didn't Scanners have some sweet synth stuff in it, too?

i think it did, i'm pretty sure some of the other early Cronenberg stuff has synth scores too. i shall investigate

  On 1/26/2010 at 1:27 AM, soundwave said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 1:20 AM, Awepittance said:

thanks ! some great stuff in here.

 

does anyone know what movie or Tv show was one of the first to use synthesizers (not theremins) predominately in the score?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2x5IKxmAQ

Hi! Your friendly neighbourhood Delia Derbyshire obsessive here! Not to harsh-buzz anyone's clit on, but the original realisation of the Dr Who theme didn't involve synthesisers at all. Most of it was done with tape loops of found sounds. What little synthesised sound she used was actually single tone oscillators (if you've ever tried to make any music using one of these you realise how different this is from what we think of as a "synth") and filtered loops of found sounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_theme_music

This is not to detract from Derbyshire's AMAZING work. In fact, it's often more amazing when you realise how primitive the stuff she was working with. Yes, it's electronic but don't make the mistake of conflating electronic purely with synthesisers.

(In fact, IIRC from Sonic Boom's interviews with her, she left music for many years because she disliked synthesisers, thought they were going down the wrong track WRT electronic music. She wanted a more pure electronic music.)

I might be projecting here, but I always wondered if one of the things that got her back into music towards the end of her life was discovering the ways in which the more imaginative of electronic musicians were using sampling, which was much more in line with her philosophy of applied sound.

Anyway, sorry, fangurl moment over. Please carry on with your amazing thread, already in progress!

The Entity by Charles Berstein has good bits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdy997tYI6U

The soundtrack is pretty damn cheesy, but i still love it, it has a few good songs and this is the best one by far, by Kenji Kawaii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcWZgcMcqU

I read about it on here so most you know about it, Device's disco undead compilation is very good too

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Undead/release/330107

  On 1/26/2010 at 3:05 PM, funkaholic said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcWZgcMcqU

wow, this is pretty mind-blowing! i love it

  On 1/26/2010 at 1:39 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Hi! Your friendly neighbourhood Delia Derbyshire obsessive here! Not to harsh-buzz anyone's clit on, but the original realisation of the Dr Who theme didn't involve synthesisers at all. Most of it was done with tape loops of found sounds. What little synthesised sound she used was actually single tone oscillators (if you've ever tried to make any music using one of these you realise how different this is from what we think of as a "synth") and filtered loops of found sounds.

I was going to post the same "correction", however...

1. It says ELECTRONIC & synth, so tape manipulation counts

2. GBIII and everyone else on WATTUM already knows how the Doctor Who theme was made

i'd be willing to bet that Delia Derbyshire was not the first person to make a song that sounded that archetypal 'electronic'. i may be wrong, but if forbidden planet came out in 1956, i'd be very surprised if there weren't other people developing the same techniques before 1963 .

i just found Oskar Sala's bird sound 'score' for the Birds

Andy Jenkinson "the crisp chronicles"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZBqIFYYLs

Here's a timeline of tv shows using the first commercially-available synthesizer (Hammond Novachord) going back all the way to 1939!

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/nova/sightings.htm

There are a few downloadable songs in here;: http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/nova/intro.htm

edit- most of these probably weren't fully electronic though..

shit, great find . just what i was looking for.

  On 1/26/2010 at 6:16 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 5:31 AM, joshuatxuk said:

 

Forbidden planet is pretty impressive and notable because it does NOT use a theremin. And it's a very impressive, non-cheesy 50's sci-fi movie. Instead a very early ring modulator was used, one that preceeded Dr. Who, Buchla, and Stockhausen by years.

 

 

 

interesting, i'll have to look into this more. Who made it?

Husband and wife producers, Louis and Bebe Barron. Looks like someone took the time to add a lot of information to their wikipedia page and link a lot of informative articles (NPR, The Wire, NYT) about the couple. I'd never heard of them before seeing the film on TCM randomly, they are very overlooked.

My link

watching Forbidden Planet right now. i like how straight it's played, reminds me of movie length version of an old episode of star trek.

soundtrack is pretty awesome, i like how it's nothing but electronic sounds

so a few questions

- Dr. Who was obviously a very influential TV show then and it was done in 1963. In between 1963 - 1970 was there anything else on film or TV that resembled the modern electronic qualities of the Dr. Who theme? i have too much stuff from the 70s, not much from the 60s, but i can't imagine a 7 year gap with no moog lead on a TV show theme.

- In the BBC article from last year that mentions Delia Derbyshire's 'lost experimental dance track' it says they recently discovered 20 previously unheard recordings. What outfit put these recordings out? it's been over a year so i assume it has been released but i could be wrong.

i got a good radiophonic comp for my mates birthday from amazon UK

The bizarre and terrifying synthetic Bird Noises made by Oscar Sala in Hitchcock's the Birds.

  On 1/26/2010 at 7:17 AM, Z_B_Z said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOLpDYqNzk

excellent pick