Recommend films with Experimental music.

Eraserhead has good, eerie soundscapes..

As well as Pig (Rozz Williams film)

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Aaron Dilloway distributes a cassette that includes some of the music for it, but also the entire audio of the film.

I know I'm bumping an old thread. Maybe this will start some more conversation here.

Bill Morrison's "Decay"

http://www.decasia.com/index_full.html

I'm a bit skeptical of this, though I have no seen it. I would like to see it. However, I don't particularly have interest in Michael Gordon (composer) and the Bang on a Can group. The film seems a bit like William Basinski's "disintegration loops" - possibly a one-trick pony, especially when one considers the tape work of Jason Lescalleet.

The music isn't much like Jason Lescalleet's disintegrating tapes at all (the process in which the film itself was made resembles Lescalleet's work more than the music in it), and it is only a little bit like Basinski's music. It's more like a mescalinian haunted house version of Terry Riley, if that makes any sense... and, of what i've heard, outside of his Decasia soundtrack, Michael Gordon's music seems really unlistenable. I know we all have different opinions here, but I saw Roulette TVs installation on his music, and couldn't keep it on past the first minute. But I definitely suggest seeing the movie- and watching it with its original soundtrack at least once.

I just wonder why nobody spoke about famous Zoetrope....short film with Lustmord's music... its really worth it... black and white adaptaion of Kafka...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9wqEQKTGJ4

I just wonder why nobody spoke about famous Zoetrope....short film with Lustmord's music...

Sheer malice.

how about all of Hiroshi Teshigahara's movies with Takemitsu's music!?

he also did the music for Ran by Kurosawa

I have a bad memory but I think I remember the 2001 Space Odyssey soundtrack to be quite intriguing and I'm not talking about the Also Sprach Zarathustra part! Also some powerful silent scenes and a very sophisticated use of sound in general in this film. It was striking to me when I saw it a couple of years ago. Or a least that's the impression I have now...

I have a bad memory but I think I remember the 2001 Space Odyssey soundtrack to be quite intriguing and I'm not talking about the Also Sprach Zarathustra part! Also some powerful silent scenes and a very sophisticated use of sound in general in this film. It was striking to me when I saw it a couple of years ago. Or a least that's the impression I have now...

The soundtrack is famous for the Strauss, but what stands out in my memory are the Ligeti pieces, Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna and Adventures.

That soundtrack ( the Ligeti in particular ) blew my very young mind...

It's too bad Ligeti had to sue Kubrick for credit..

The soundtrack is famous for the Strauss, but what stands out in my memory are the Ligeti pieces, Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna and Adventures.

That soundtrack ( the Ligeti in particular ) blew my very young mind...

It's too bad Ligeti had to sue Kubrick for credit..

I'd heard Ligeti on the soundtrack but never knew there was any legal hullaballoo behind the scenes
I think there're some excerpts from Ligeti pieces in The Shining... Maybe the two had made up by then.

saw "drag me to hell" last night - VERY GOOD, VERY SCARY!

on subject: lots of use of pretty experimental sounding sounds throughout, particuarly some spring reverb effects that just skirted horror movie cliche, and the demon spirit had a sheer hellish miasma moment or two... gooood stuff!

And on this tip of Canadiana,

Picture of Light by Peter Mettler, from 1994

features original music by Jim O'Rourke, very beautiful, coupled with images of arctic conditions in Churchill, Manitoba and the Aurora Borealis.

In Order Not to Be Here by Deborah Stratman features music by kevin drumm. Still have to find some time for this one
great comment here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343827/


and kagel's movies... if you're into kagel
Some are on ubu

OH and outer space by peter tscherkassky. Love it! The sound track is sufficient to itself. But got to watch it!

saw "drag me to hell" last night - VERY GOOD, VERY SCARY!

on subject: lots of use of pretty experimental sounding sounds throughout, particuarly some spring reverb effects that just skirted horror movie cliche, and the demon spirit had a sheer hellish miasma moment or two... gooood stuff!

Yeah the first attack in the house is the best part of the movie, great sound design.
But I thought it was a catastrophy. It's evil dead disney version.

I'm halfway through Step Across the Border which has lots of improvised music by Fred Frith and friends. It's more of a travelogue IMO featuring them in Tokyo and New York so far. I hadn't heard of Fred Frith before and I think I will try and find more of his music. He is pretty...

I've not seen it yet but Sleep Furiously (a documentary film about a small, Welsh farming community - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A39788239) has a soundtrack by Aphex Twin.

Depends on whether you consider Aphex Twin to be experimental, I guess.

Maya Deren - Meshes of the Afternoon. Soundtrack by Teiji Ito. Loved the film, hated the soundtrack....

has anyone mentioned 28 days later? i watched this again last night. the film itself and the music by itself is not very "experimental" in the sense that this forum recognizes maybe, but put together it was very novel at the time. G!YBE over zombie pandemonium has a very chilling effect.

how about all of Hiroshi Teshigahara's movies with Takemitsu's music!?
he also did the music for Ran by Kurosawa

Takemitsu also did a large number of soundtracks for films by Toshio Matsumoto. A documentary called 'Music For The Movies' was produced about Takemitsu in the mid-90's but unfortunately i have yet to see it.

Toshio Matsumoto is definitely a director to look for, as he utilized many experimental composers for his films; like Yosuke Inagaki, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takashi Inagaki, Toru Takemitsu, Jo Kondo, & Joji Yuasa.

He has a 3 DVD set out that i highly recommend.
http://www.dex-et.jp/Ncontents/dvd/dex_dvd0022.html

(edit - i've just noticed a large number of the films on the box set can be downloaded from ubuweb as avi's.)

other good directors to look for are Takashi Ito (who mostly utilized Yosuke Inagaki) and Takahiko Iimura (Yoko Ono, Takehisa Kosugi).

Wavelength by Michael Snow

seconded, also recommend 'Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)' and 'WVLNT' (a re-edited version of 'Wavelength'.

Phill Niblock - China and Sunsets

Niblock also produced 2 short films for the dvd included in the re-issue of arthur russel's world of echo'; the audio is comprised of arthur russell doing interpretations of 'world of echo' material.

He has a 3 DVD set out that i highly recommend.
[url=http://www.dex-et.jp/Ncontents/dvd/dex_dvd0022.html][color=#FFFFDF]http://www.dex-et.jp/Ncontents/dvd/dex_dvd0022.html

Has that set got subtitles? Limited info there for a non-Japanese speaker. I know the files they host at ubu.com haven't got any (at least the ones I looked at), and I would like to see those films properly.

no subtitles on the boxset. however, only 4 of the films contain any speech.
they are 'Weavers of Nishijin', 'The Song of Stone', 'Mothers', and 'Engram'.

generally though, speech is used sparingly. an occasional brief voiceover, nestled among long minutes of music.

no subtitles on the boxset. however, only 4 of the films contain any speech.
they are 'Weavers of Nishijin', 'The Song of Stone', 'Mothers', and 'Engram'.

generally though, speech is used sparingly. an occasional brief voiceover, nestled among long minutes of music.

Okay, thanks a lot.