The amazing film and sound Thanatopsis, Ed Emschwiller
also scott bartlett’s Moon 69 and Serpent. 
and flicker,tony conrad. 

> On Dec 21, 2017, at 11:31 PM, Andy Ditzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
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