Monday, October 22, 2007

Turntable Time Vol. 4: A soundtrack you will NEVER forget


There are a lot of movie soundtracks which feature classical music, among the most popular are "The Exorcist", "2001 - A Space Odyssee" and "A Clockwork Orange".
One lesser known example is "The Female Prisoner", a french movie from 1968 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063458/) which had a soundtrack release featuring music by Anton Webern, Gustav Mahler und Luciano Berio.
The Berio piece, which runs for the complete B-side of the LP (20:47), is called "Visage" and is scored for magnetic tape, the voice of Cathy Berberian and electronic sounds. It was composed in 1961, in a time when electronic sounds were very new to the music scene ("Forbidden Planet" was just five years before), the first records employing primitive synthsizers came years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio
And if you think you heard avantgarde music before, try this one.
There have been hundreds of scores for horror movies in the past decades, but I never heard one that is more frightening than "Visage". Although this wasn't intended by Berio, this work by him would fit in a movie like "Castle Freak" or "The Keep" perfectly.
And if you want to scare not only yourself but your neighbors as well, play "Visage" real loud and in the dark. If you dare to start it that way, I'm sure that you will at least change the volume.
And after hearing keep in mind that this is not crap but high art.
Happy Halloween !
http://rapidshare.com/files/64684840/_various___OST____The_Female_Prisoner____A_.mp3
The following link has Berio's "Visage":
http://rapidshare.com/files/64682017/_various___OST____The_Female_Prisoner____B_.mp3

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