Re: [microsound] neuromancer soundtrack - was snow crash

[Guillaume Grenier <grenier.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/06/03 22:51, pelagius pelagius said in living color:

> For me the ultimate unfulfilled sci-fi epic masterpiece would be
> Jodorowsky's Dune.

You're damn right!

> Supposedly the project involved at one time or another
> Salvador Dali, H.R. Giger, Mobius, and others (rumors of Orson Welles or
> Mick Jagger).  According to Jodorowsky:

Reading this again literally makes me salivate with virtual enthusiasm.

I learned about this mythical project in a book about Moebius (what a great
artist). It collected several drawings he had done for it.

> "A vital aspect for me: each planet had its style of music, for example a
> group like Magma could realize the Harkonnen warrior rhythms which would be
> capable of cristallizing the beauty of the sand planet with its mystery and
> its implacable force, the strange symphony of rings of giant worms.
> Virgin Records met with us and offered us Gong, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine
> Dream. At this moment I say: "And why not Pink Floyd?""
> http://www.oliver-faulhaber.de/sf/dune/sonstiges/dunejost.htm

God, I didn't know that Jodorowsky considered Magma for the music! Even more
amazing...

Regarding Pink Floyd: they had given their OK to the project. And would have
produced a whole double album called "Dune". This was at the time of "Dark
Side of the Moon"...

> These things are probably better left to the imagination huh?
> 
> PS: those of you mumbling about progrock just think of how outdated an Aphex
> Twin/Chris Cunningham Neuromancer would seem by.....oh, right about now.

g.

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