[Frameworks] Electronic Soundtracks for Avant-Garde Films

[Stephen Broomer]

Albert,

I believe Ian Hugo's films had electronic soundtracks that predate many of the examples discussed here. Louis and Bebe Barron (who, with Forbidden Planet, gave commercial cinema its first electronic score) composed the sound for Bells of Atlantis (1953) but many of his later films (ex. Levitation) had electronic scores by David Horowitz.

Stephen




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On Dec 21, 2017, at 7:04 AM, Elena Duque <elenaduque at gmail.com<mailto:elenaduque at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello!

The films by Lillian Schwartz have very nice electronic music soundtracks:
http://lillian.com/films/

Bruce Conner's Crossroads, with music by Terry Riley and Patrick Gleeson

Not sure if sound experiments like Lis Rhodes or Robert Russett count...

2017-12-21 12:38 GMT+01:00 Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com<mailto:albertalcoz at gmail.com>>:
Hello all,

After asking about jazz
​ and​
​ music an experimental film
​, ​
and feeling grateful for all the answers​, I was wondering about the connections between early electronic music and avant-garde film.
​ ​
Recently I watched OFFON (1967-72) by Scott Bartlett with a “sound composition” by Manny Meyer.

Again, there should be plenty of avant-garde films where the soundtrack is instrumental electronic music or experimental
​abstract ​
sound created with magnetic tape recorders, synthesizers, electronic tools, etc.

Maybe one question would be to define what is considered to be early electronic music but anyway, lets try it.

Does anyone remember some other avant-garde films with
​early ​
electronic music
​ from the 50's, 60's, 70's even 80's​
?

Right now here’s the first list:

Cybernetik 5.3 (1968) by John Stehura. Music: Tod Dockstader.

Crystals (1968) by Herbert Loebel. Music: Michael Lloyd.

Rohfilm (1968) by Birgit & Wilhelm Hein. Music: Christian Michaelis.

Two Images for a Computer Piece (1969) by Lloyd Williams. Music: Vladimir Ussachevsky.

Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (1970) by David Rimmer. Music: Don Druick.

Berlin Horse (1970) de Malcolm Le Grice. Music: Brian Eno.

Mutations (1973) by Lilian F. Schwartz. Music: Jean Claude Risset.

Several films by Dore O. and Werner Nekes with sountracks by Anthony Moore like Diwan (1973) or Kaskara (1974).

Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. Music: Mike Ratledge.

Thanks in advance,

Albert Alcoz

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