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sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
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| gncxx wrote: | | That's it! What an amazing coincidence I was reminded of it the week before it's out on DVD! |
Glad to be of help - and yes, quite the coincidence!
I'm pretty sure that track is more Geesin than Waters. |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-10-2013 11:15 Post subject: |
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Here's a review of The Body DVD:
BrainDamage.co.uk
| Quote: | | For those who are keen to hear the music in isolation, though, the producers of the DVD have thoughtfully included it as a 38 minute "music suite" in the extras. The music is accompanied with kaleidoscopic imagery. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-10-2013 23:12 Post subject: |
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| Got my copy this week, might give it a spin at the weekend. Worried that review describes it as "hard to watch" in places, though, I get squeamish about that sort of thing! |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 13-10-2013 17:59 Post subject: |
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I knew I'd mentioned this before - but, blimey, I've just given myself something of a shock finding out how long ago.
Anyway, more than enough time has elapsed to justify repetition, and I also didn't find a link to it back them.
So, Byrne and Eno's The Jezebel Spirit, from the album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - complete with its very own exorcism.
Also, in the same post (way back on page 1): not necessarily Fortean - and I know Robbie Robertson is not a name you might expect to come up in a discussion like this - but, if you like a bit of atmosphere before you go to bed at night, then listen to Twisted Hair last thing with no-one else in the house and the lights off.
(Listen - I am dancing underneath you. A line to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and no mistake.)
Edit: The choir of voices behind the opera singer is actually a recording of crickets slowed right down - an effect apparently discovered by a guy called Jim Wilson. ('Apparently' because some people believe the effect is faked - and I don't know nearly enough about the subject to make a call). There's a sample of his work here: God's Cricket Chorus. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 13-10-2013 18:38 Post subject: |
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And, yes, I 'm possibly repeating myself again (happens when you reach a certain age) because I think I've already mentioned this, but on another - possibly purged - thread.
I'm not sure how appropriate it is here, either; Fortean? Hmm, I don't know - but it's definitely off main street in the same way that the Music From The Body piece is.
Anyway Jóhann Jóhannsson's, IBM 1401, A User's Manual.
There's some argument on the web about whether this actually uses sounds from the computer or is simply based on those sounds but the confusion is clearly from thoise who haven't consulted Jóhannsson's website - here.
| Quote: | In 1964, a computer - the IBM 1401 Data Processing System - arrived in Iceland, one of the very first computers to be imported into the country. The 1401 has been called the "Model T" of the computer industry - the first affordable, mass produced digital business computer . The chief maintenance engineer for this machine was Jóhann Gunnarsson, my father. A keen musician, he learned of an obscure method of making music on this computer - a purpose for which this business machine was not at all designed. The method was simple. The computer's memory emitted strong electromagnetic waves and by programming the memory in a certain way and by placing a radio receiver next to it, melodies could be coaxed out - captured by the receiver as a delicate, melancholy sine-wave tone.
When the IBM 1401 was taken out of service in 1971, it wasn't simply thrown away like an old refrigerator, but was given a little farewell ceremony, almost a funeral, when its melodies were played for one last time. This "performance" was documented on tape along with recordings of the sound of the machine in operation.
When my father told me about this in the year 2001, I felt that, besides being a nice, touching story, it reflected many things that I was interested in. Man-machine interaction, old, discarded technology, the nostalgia for old computers, human and artificial intelligence, technological progress and human evolution, the "spirit" and the machine. I started to write music using those themes, basing it on those 30 year old recordings of the IBM 1401 computer... |
So, for example, as I understand it the rather eerie woodwind sound that runs through Part 1 - ibm 1401 Processing Unit, is not a woodwind instrument at all, but a sample of an actual recording of the machine.
Anyway, here's the opening section: Part 1 - ibm 1401 Processing Unit.
I think it's beautiful. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-10-2013 16:25 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Got my copy this week, might give it a spin at the weekend. Worried that review describes it as "hard to watch" in places, though, I get squeamish about that sort of thing! |
Well, I watched it, and all very interesting inspector, but where was the farty song?! Nowhere to be heard in the film whatsoever! Bit let down by that, but not a bad film, kind of spacey in a hippy hangover way. |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-10-2013 00:17 Post subject: |
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| That's a pity! I guess it's on the soundtrack option? |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-10-2013 18:00 Post subject: |
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| It must be, but I haven't listened to it yet. |
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