dont forget TRON wendy carlos is the man (pun)
-Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:43 AM Subject: RE: [313] Soundtracks and Early Memories > It's interesting to see that a lot of people's early encounters with > electronic sound involved people like Jarre or Tangerine Dream - for me (and > this will sound a bit odd) it was the main theme from Ghostbusters! I know > it's not strictly electronic but it had a synth sound in it, and the video > featured the Ghostbusters firing their laser-ray things, and I guess I had a > bit of a synesthesia experience - the look of the lasers meshed with the > sound of the synths in my head, and so from then (I was 9 at the time) I was > a sucker for anything with noises that sounded like lasers. And because it > was 1984 I was able to catch some of the mainstream manifestations of > electro (I had a "Body Rap", for example) before the mid-1980s began in > earnest and laser noises became things both of the past and the future, > kicked out of the present by electric guitars and Stock Aitken & Waterman's > drum machines. > > When I was a bit older I was into the "hardcore" scene, but the > science-fiction side of my personality wanted to hear electronic music that > was less visceral and more visionary, less banging and more funky, and when > I first heard "Pacific 707" I was sold. Since then I've had three other > tracks strike the motherlode and essentially redefine the way I listen to > electronic music, these being The Orb's "Evergrowing Pulsating Brain..." (I > was quite the UK "idm" kid in the early 1990s), The Martian's "Visual > Contact" and Quadrant "Quadrant Dub". > > I'm not sure if many other 313ers would identify with this, but I've always > been heavily into science fiction ideas and concepts, and since I was young > I thought that sci-fi should really be more than just a literary genre; > rather, a complete culture, with its own musical heritage among other > things. And I always thought, and still do think, that techno music is > science fiction music, no matter how many orchestral scores Hollywood stick > onto sci-fi films. > > Brendan > > > Legal Disclaimer > > This message contains confidential information and is intended only for > the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete > this e-mail from your system. > mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as > information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or > incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept > liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message that > arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required > please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for > informational purposes only. > our website at: http://www.widelearning.com > > Wide Learning is a trading name of Wide Multimedia Ltd Registered office: > 33-41 Dallington Street, London EC1V 0BB > Company number: 3339664 VAT number: 690 8399 83 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
