[sdiy] Re: Forbidden Planet trivia

[patchell]

    Any idea of when it will be performed?  Since UCSB is fairly close to me
(and I graduated from there besides), it would be fun to go hear it.

Peter Grenader wrote:

>
> Recent news is about four years ago she was commissioned to write a piece of
> music at the CREATE center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
>
>
> - Peter
>
> Colin f wrote:
>
> >>> Take a listen to the soundtrack of the film 'Forbidden Planet' made by
> >>> Disney in the mid 50s.
> >
> > MGM actually.
> >
> >> AFAIR this was the first movie soundtrack 100% made of electronic
> >> sounds.
> >> And the composers / performers used modified military equipment
> >> (such as radars) to generate the sounds...
> >
> > They (husband and wife team Louis and Bebe Barron) supposedly built
> > circuits based on cybernetic principles, which were born, lived and died
> > (i.e. were turned on, made a mental noise, blew up).
> > These sounds were recorded onto tape, then re-assembled music concrete
> > style into the sound track.
> > You can get it on CD, a quick google search for "forbidden planet ost"
> > will turn it up.
> > That film seriously warped my mind at a very impressionable age...
> >
> > Colin f
> >
> >
> >
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