Re: [microsound] movies

["ian stewart" <artsonics@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I know they've been mentioned here before but The Conversation and Blow Out 
>are two interesting '70s thrillers dealing with recording and listening.  <

And Skolimowski's mystical horrorfilm The Shout, from 1978- one of the main 
characters is an electroacoustic composer (although the music is by 
Banks+Rutherford from Genesis). It does for sound what Nakata's Ring does 
for video.

>Someone recommended Herzog's Aguirre but I'd have to throw Heart of Glass 
>out there as his most hypnotic and time bending film. <

The whole cast was under hypnosis for the shooting of Heart of Glass! 
Herzog's doc on ski-flying (The Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner) is the 
most hypnotic documentary I've ever seen, largely because of the music (by 
Popol Vuh- they also did Aguirre and Heart of Glass).

Ian

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