Lecture series of formal presentations & course modules
 
c i n e m a     m e d i a     a r t     music

 

Record Production & Phonology

1. Record Production 1 - Processess & Considerations
2. Record Production 2 - Production Technique in Muzak
3. Record Production 3 - The Digital Domain
4. Record Production 4 - Recording the Rock Band
5. Record Production 5 - Deconstructing the Rock Band


Collapsing Rock, Pop and Noise

1. Sound & Noise 1 - The 'Other' of Sound

2. Sound & Noise 2 - The inversion of Sound
3. Musique Concrete 1 -
Generating Noise
4. Musique Concrete 2 - Landscaping Sonority
5. Electronic Music 1 - Introducing Electricity to Music
6. Electronic Music 2 - Introducing Computers to Sound
7. Synthesizers 1 - The Artificial Keyboard
8. Synthesizers 2 - The Virtual Instrument
9. Minimalism 1 - Initial Explorations
10. Minimalism 2 - Further Applications
11. Text & Voice 1 - The Sound of Speech
12. Text & Voice 2 - The Role of Words


Folk, Rock & Pop within the Cinema

1. DAYS OF WINE & ROSES 1967 – Blake Edwards (USA) Composer Henry Mancini
2. DO THE RIGHT THING 1987 – Spike Lee (USA) Composer Bill Lee
3. O BROTHER WHERE ARE THOU? 2000 – Joel & Ethan Coen (USA) - Various traditonal songs & recordings
4. THE PAWNBROKER 1965 – Sidney Lumet (USA) Composer Quincy Jones
5. SHAFT 1971 – Gordon Parks Jr (USA) - Composer Issac Hayes
6 . WILD ANGELS 1966 – Roger Corman (USA) Composer Mike Curb / Davie Allen & the Arrows
7. DEAD MAN 1995 – Jim Jarmusch (USA) - Composer Neil Young
8. RUMBLE FISH 1982 – Francis Ford Copolla (USA) Composer Stewart Copeland
9. RESIDENT EVIL 2002 – Paul Anderson (Germany) Composer Marco Baltrami

10. PATLABOR 3 2002 - Fumihiko Takayama (Japan) Composer Kenji Kawai


20th Century Music within the Cinema

1. FORBIDDEN PLANET 1954 – Fred Macleod Wilcox (USA) Score by Louis & Bebbe Barron
2. THE SHINING 1980 – Stanley Kubrick (UK) Source score by Bela Bartok / Kryzysztof Penderecki / Gyorgy Ligeti
3. MOSES & ARON 1976 – Jean-Marie Straub & Danielle Huillet (Germany) Opera by Arnold Schoenberg
4. THE CONVENT 1998 – Manoel De Oliveira (Portugal) Source score by Igor Stravinsky / Sofia Gubajdulina / Toshir Mayazumi
5. ARASHI GA OKA 1985 – Yoshihige Yoshida (Japan) Composer Toru Takemitsu
6. LIFE ON A STRING 1991 – Kaige Chen (China) Composer Ziao-Song Qu
7. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971 – Stanley Kubrick (UK) Composer Walter Carlos; source score by Ludwig Beethoven / Gioacchino Rossini / Edward Elgar
8. TRON 1982 – Steve Lisberger (USA) Composer Wendy Carlos
9. KOYANISQAATSI 1983 – Godfrey Reggio (USA) Composer Philip Glass
10. VAGABONDE 1985 - Agnes Varda (France) Composer Joanna Bruzdowicz

Contemporary Traces of the Modern Soundtrack

1. TALK RADIO - Voice & ether
2. GOOD FELLAS - Dialogue & editing
3. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - Sound effects & editing
4. HAIL MARY - Symbolism & collage
5. COLORS - Spatiality & frequency
6. CONTACT - Transcendence & diffusion
7. THE STRAIGHT STORY - Aging & psychoacoustics
8. TAXI DRIVER - Interiority & psychosis
9. STAND BY ME - Voice & memory
10. SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL - Teen energy & rhythmic propulsion
11. OEDIPUS REX - Myth & realism
12. BLACK RIVER - Landscape & contemporary opera
13. ONE FROM THE HEART - Artificialism & modern opera
14. HEAT - Ambience & musical vaporization
15. MAGNOLIA - Song form & vocal multiplicity

Historical Markers of the Modern Soundtrack

1. CITIZEN KANE - Layers, levels & mixing
2. THE BIRDS - Volume, perspective & density
3. PLAYTIME - Architecture & sonic space
4. THE INNOCENTS - Silence & breath
5. WAY OF THE DRAGON - Post-dubbing & the body
6. CALIFORNIA SPLIT - Voice, performance & live space
7. LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD - Textuality & vocal narration
8. THE CONVERSATION - Distortion & misperception
9. PSYCHO - Psychological states & atonality
10. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - Opera, genre & theatre
11. WEST SIDE STORY - Opera & lyric drama
12. UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG - Operetta & sung narrative
13. SUSPIRIA - Rock & synthesizer scores
14. METROPOLIS - Silent cinema & sound/image relations
15. KWAIDAN - Synchronism & mysticism




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