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Re: [microsound] sci-fi cinema and music



hey - that's fantastic info!!! i love the idea that aliens speak the western 12
note scale... make sense, right? what better emissary than john williams?

:)

pelagius pelagius wrote:

> Hey, sorry. I really should organize my thoughts before I keep emailng you
> over and over again :)
> Anyway, I just thought of the idea of actual synthesizers appearing in films
> in the '70s.  They were obviously current technology at the time but to the
> audience they probably looked futuristic.  Two examples are the Arp modular
> in Close Encounters that was used to communicate with the aliens (and played
> by the founder of Arp I believe) and the T.O.N.T.O. modular that was
> featured in Phantom of the Paradise.  In both cases the synths themselves
> were mainly prop pieces and were used in unrealistic ways in the film.  So
> in a sense people were imagining beyond the actual capabilities of the
> machines to future applications.  For example in Phantom of the Paradise the
> synth turns the Phantom's damaged garbled voice into slick pop singing which
> could be seen as a precursor to Autotune!  OK, I'll leave you alone now.
>
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