[sdiy] Essential listening? - Forbidden Planet soundtrack

[Scott Gravenhorst]

jbv <jbv.silences at Club-Internet.fr> wrote:
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>Scott,
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>>
>> I do agree that it isn't my thing either (music concrete).  I've got a VHS
>> copy I snagged from TV years ago (they don't play these old classics much).
>> An album of just that wouldn't do much for me either.  Ever since I learned
>> how it was made, I wondered if anyone had ever done such things again,
>> especially with modern day components.  Judging from the responses, I would
>> guess not.  I would also guess that using this technique was a matter of
>> accidental discovery and not by deliberate engineering design.
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>What are you refering to by "accidental discovery and not by deliberate
>engineering
>design" , musique concrete or early electronic works such as the Forbidden
>Planet
>sndtk ?
>If you're refering to musique concrete, IMHO you couldn't be more wrong :
>there's a huge amount of musical theory behind the works.
>Early musique concrete represents an amazing collection of gems. After the early
>
>70's, it became academic and pompous (and often boring).

No, here is the sentence again:
"I would also guess that using this technique was a matter of
accidental discovery and not by deliberate engineering design."

As in that the artist(s) who did the soundtrack probably discovered this by
accident rather than computation.  But this is a guess on my part based on the
assumption that most of us do not purposefully destroy equipment to get a desired
effect (other than perhaps "The Who" who did it on stage for the visual).  My
guess is that it happened and then they said "Wow, that sounded cool!"  I do not
know, it is a guess.

As for music concrete goes, I was making no judgement of genre, merely that I
personally don't prefer it.

>Here's a couple of works that I consider like some of the richest electronic
>works
>ever composed :
>- Luciano Berio "Visage" - 1961
>- Bernard Parmegiani "Capture Ephémère" - 1967 (and all his works between
>1962 and 1975)
>- early P. Henry & P. Schaeffer compositions
>- electronic compositions by Xenakis, Ferrari, Canton... from the early 60's
>
>BTW, AFAIK there isn't any music theory behind Jarre, ELP, Yes...
>And I won't mention contemporary techno...
>
>JB
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