Thursday, November 13, 2014

"Jack's Lament" - Jack Swartz


A rendition of "Jack's Lament" which was featured in "The Nightmare Before Christmas", a film directed by Tim Burton.  This is Jack Swartz doing the vocal chores. 

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

KING CRIMSON JAM 1973


This is a video of King Crimson improvising live in Bremen in 1973.  King Crimson, in its original run, blended a diversity of musical styles in their playing.  A wild variation of instruments are utilized here.  In addition to guitar, bass and drums, flourishes of flute, violin, mellotron and percussion are injected.  An interesting noise results.  The players include Robert Fripp, John Wetton, David Cross, Bill Bruford and percussion whirlwind, Jamie Muir.  It is nice that a lot of these performances were recorded as the band's personnel could shift quite quickly.

Sunday, November 02, 2014

"FORBIDDEN PLANET" SOUNDTRACK CREATION EXPLAINED



This is a very cool little demo video by Ben Burtt on how some of the movie soundtrack for the science fiction classic, "Forbidden Planet" was produced.  Burtt manipulates analog tape machines and fiddles around with tape speeds, feedback, and looping to produce some of the sounds Louis and Bebe Barron originally created for the movie.  The sounds of outer space and an alien landscape generated right from the sound lab.  Wonderful!

Electronic and Experimental Music