Re: [microsound] sci-fi cinema and music

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

beautiful film - one of my favourites... and i think the best is still to
come from that director, which is the exciting thing!!!

Jonathan Hughes wrote:

> >> i'm trying to draw up a list of all the science-fiction films that
> >> have
> >> diagetic music within them, that is, music that can be heard by the
> >> characters in the film.  the classic example would be the star wars
> >> cantina scene, where luke meets han solo for the first time - that
> >> benny
> >> goodman dixielandish john williams alien band...
>
> Are you counting TV shows as well?
>
> There have been several episodes of Farscape that had scenes in clubs
> with some very cool (albeit quite terrestrial) techno-ish/IDM music.
>
> The was one Star Trek TNG episode where Commander Riker is in a bar
> talking to some alien woman playing blues "piano." The interesting
> thing was that although she was playing a standard blues, the piano-ish
> sound they used was tuned in some microtonal scale, so even though it
> didn't sound "alien" it still sounded unusual.
>
> There was the scene in the Battlestar Gallactica movie where they're in
> that casino, and the women on stage have two sets of eyes and mouths,
> and they sing multiple parts.
>
> And there was a Buck Rogers episode where they were at some fancy ball,
> and there was a guy playing some kind of "futuristic" keyboard, and the
> music was anything but futuristic -- it was bad generic late 70's TV
> disco (and quite unintentionally funny, too).
>
> Also, the opening scene in Star Trek Nemesis (the Riker/Troi wedding).
> It's all 19th/20th century music, though.
>
> I'm sure i could think of more, but I think I've more than proved my
> geekhood, so i'll stop for now.
>
> Jonathan
>
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