Berberian sound studio

The official trailer of the new  Peter Strickland's movie.
Set in 1976, Toby Jones plays a documentary sound engineer who finds himself employed by a notorious low-budget Italian horror studio.
A tribute to the classic Italian Giallos movies.

"Berberian sound studio"

and a clip extract from the film...
<<<here>>>

on screen today in England

a link with the Vinyl : here

Microsonic landscapes

An algorithmic exploration of music...

                                         >>>here<<<

 

"the hidden into something visible"

Icebreaker

Some excerpt of Dziga Vertov's silent movie & music by Palix

The Great White Silence

"The great white silence" is a 1924 english documentary shot during the expedition "Terra Nova expedition" in 1919/1913.
Restored by BFI National Archive, this movie is the editing of the official film record of Captain Scott's ill-fated trip to the South Pole.
This silent film is now sounded with the original music of our friend Simon Fisher Turner,
helped by David Coulter, Sarah Scott, the Elysian quartet & Alexander l'Estrange.

and a documentary around this project...

>>> scoring the great white silence <<<

Structures of silence

"Stuctures of silence" , Aurélie Nemours' painting - 1983/1990

Necessary Monsters

"Necessary Monsters", a staged song cycle for 7 musicians & 1 actress,
written by the american violonist and vocalist  Carla Kihlstedt & the poet Rafael Oses,
based on "Book of imaginary beings" of Jose Luis Borges.
At the West coast premiere in San Francisco in July 2011.

Turntable?

Rock me baby

Sugar Pie DeSanto is an american/philipino  rythm'n'blues singer born in 1935.
She started in 1955 touring with the "Johnny Otis Revue".
As a great talented voice, Sugar Pie was part of the "American Folk Blues Festival" 
in Europe in 1964 where she was the only female artist.
She happened to be a hilarious comedienne as well a show-stopping dancer

"Baby what you want me to do" - England 1964

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Beat

Jack Kerouac's interview

Facelift

A live version of "Facelift" from the Third album, released in 1970.
When the band, septet period, start to go into jazz style with Elton Dean...
& Kevin Ayers who left the band, replaced by Hugh Hopper...

avec une insolite apparition de Delphine Seyrig à 2'40" environ!!

Chappaqua

A psychedelic excerpt of the cult movie Chappaqua, which won the second price at the Venice Film Festival competition in 1966.
Directed by Conrad Rooks, the plot is the semi-autobiographical account of his own attempt to pull himself up out of a pit of drug/alcohol addiction.
Main characters are interpreted by Jean Louis Barrault as well figures from the beat generation as Allen Ginsberg, Williams Burroughs and the musical appearances with Ravi Shankar, Ornette Coleman, Moondog, The Fugs....

 

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