Thanks, Mark, for this great list and the reminder of Hammer's Dyketactics. I'd forgotten that wonderful soundtrack. I'm also reminded now of Ben van Meter's own electronic soundtrack for S.F. Trips Festival - An Opening, and for parts of Acid Mantra.
Andy On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Mark Toscano <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh Dem Watermelons' soundtrack is indeed an original Steve Reich > composition/performance with piano and voices, not electronic. Plastic > Haircut (1963) contains Reich's first-ever tape piece. Pretty sure the > Rainbow in Curved Air on Lawder's Corridor is just from the standard record > - the film does have a 3-minute intro containing different sound which I > vaguely recall Standish telling me that he made himself, and that he just > used the LP otherwise and asked Terry Riley if it was OK. > > Also Lawder's Raindance has a great electronic soundtrack by Robert > Withers. > > Pat O'Neill has some fantastic experimental and/or electronic soundtracks > in many of his earlier films - 7362 is by Joseph Byrd and a few of the '70s > tracks are by Stan Levine. I think Pat did the Runs Good track himself. > > Barbara Hammer has a number of films with excellent electronic > soundtracks, including No No Nooky T.V., Optic Nerve, Dyketactics (by BH > herself)... > > Carl Stone did tracks for Adam Beckett's Evolution of the Red Star, Jules > Engel's Accident, and Roberta Friedman & Grahame Weinbren's Amusement Park > Composition & Decay. Barry Schrader scored Beckett's Heavy-Light. > > Rick Corrigan's tracks for some of Brakhage's '80s films are pretty great > - there was even a cassette release of some of them. > > Rhys Chatham did soundtracks for Daina Krumins' Aether and The Divine > Miracle. > > Fred Coulter's electronic track for Richard Myers' Akran is pretty intense > and interesting. > > Carter Thomas did excellent tracks for Kathy Rose's Mirror People and > Sky-David's Sonoma. > > > Mark T > > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Andy Ditzler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think Reich's soundtrack for Watermelons is just piano and voices, >> though I could be misremembering. A Reich tape collage piece forms the >> central section of Robert Nelson's Plastic Haircut. >> >> Also, Mick Jagger's Moog soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's Invocation of My >> Demon Brother. >> >> The original version of Gordon Matta-Clark's Office Baroque I believe had >> an electronic soundtrack. This was later replaced by Richard Landry's >> saxophone-based soundtrack, but if memory serves this had electronic >> effects and looping as well. >> >> I suppose the ascending sine wave tone in Wavelength would count! >> >> >> Andy Ditzler >> Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org >> Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org >> Fall 2017: Film Love presents The American Music Show retrospective >> <http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com/AmericanMusicShow_Retrospective.htm> >> >> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Ingo Petzke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Don’t forget the early (tape) work by Steve Reich as can be heard in “Oh >>> dem watermelons” by Robert Nelson 1965 [though the by-far best of these >>> early pieces “Come out to show them” unfortunately never made it into a >>> film soundtrack] >>> >>> Also, “Corridor” by Standish Lawder 1971 uses a slightly prolonged >>> version of “Rainbow in Curved Air” by Riley. >>> >>> “Binary Bit Patterns” 1969 by Michael Whitney uses what sounds like >>> computer-generated music. >>> >>> >>> >>> Ingo >>> >>> >>> >>> *Von:* FrameWorks [mailto:[email protected]] *Im >>> Auftrag von *Elena Duque >>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017 13:03 >>> *An:* Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> >>> *Betreff:* Re: [Frameworks] Electronic Soundtracks for Avant-Garde Films >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 <[email protected]>: >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> http://visionaryfilm.net/ <http://www.visionaryfilm.net/> >>> http://albertalcoz.com/ <http://www.albertalcoz.com/> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Elena Duque Viña >>> Telf: (+34) 605431072 <+34%20605%2043%2010%2072> >>> http://cargocollective.com/elenaduque <[email protected]> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Andy Ditzler Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org Fall 2017: Film Love presents The American Music Show retrospective <http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com/AmericanMusicShow_Retrospective.htm>
_______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
