Question about the TMP theme tune

[Kegek]

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Hmm. Interesting. As someone with mainly a classical connection to music (to the extent I have one at all), I've always been comfortable with a repeat performance of the same piece - some pieces of music I have on a dozen or so CDs with different recordings. When I buy a music CD, I buy it to appreciate it as music, irrespective of its film connections. I've bought Dmitri Shostakovich and Philip Glass film scores long before actually watching the films to which they were attached.

 

[Therin of Andor]

trevanian said:
I have often found that sound and picture together form a unique sense-memory

Most definitely!

I bought the soundtrack for ST:TMP with birthday vouchers given to me at my 21st birthday party. The film had just premiered here, and my friend gave it a great review. I was so convinced I'd love the music I bought the LP to listen to while reading the novelization and waiting for the commercial release of the movie. I was actually very disappointed in the music... until I saw it with the visuals - and wow! It's still my favourite soundtrack recording of all time.

I was able to repeat the experiment with ST II, hearing the James Horner music a few days before seeing it in context with the actual movie (in a sneak preview). Again, I was disappointed in the music at first. But after seeing the movie I couldn't wait to replay the LP.

 

[Kegek]

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Hm, that's fascinating, as I think the TMP score is a good piece of neo-classical music all by itself. By contrast, one of my favourite film scores - Mishima - is something I bought long before I saw the movie, and I loved it.

 

[Indysolo]

trevanian said:
I would LOVE to hear jazz versions of Williams' SW themes ... I think I'd like them better than the originals.

So buy this.

Neil

 

[trevanian]

Thanks. If not for the fact that my back wall and roof are leaking water from the condo above us, that bit of info would have made my xmas a very pleasant one indeed. I'll try to get it for my birthday next november.

 

[trevanian]

Kegek Kringle said:
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Hmm. Interesting. As someone with mainly a classical connection to music (to the extent I have one at all), I've always been comfortable with a repeat performance of the same piece - some pieces of music I have on a dozen or so CDs with different recordings. When I buy a music CD, I buy it to appreciate it as music, irrespective of its film connections. I've bought Dmitri Shostakovich and Philip Glass film scores long before actually watching the films to which they were attached.

Probably half of the Goldsmith scores I own were from stuff I hadn't yet seen, but figured were good bets based on the era when they were recorded and the genre of film. I try to avoid his mid 70s synthesizer phase, even though I think his score for PETER PROUD is effective.

But I have to say that while I've heard many many versions of Zarathustra, the one Kubrick picked for 2001 is the one with the right oomph to it.

I don't know anything about music at all except what I like, so it is totally a novice-ear that is hearing this stuff, but music, mostly instrumental filmmusic from Goldsmith and John Barry and Ennio Morricone, has always been the best inspiration for me when writing. When I'm free-associating to a hardworking Goldsmith score from a lesser movie, I'm inclined to think up better situations or visuals than were actually attached to the original film (EXTREME PREJUDICE and many of his Bronson and Stallone films are good examples of this.) There are some classical pieces I like, but by and large they are ruined for me by the cutesy sections (by way of example, I would say listen to the in-between stuff in the asteroid chase in Williams' EMPIRE .... you have tremendously impressive, great heroic stuff, but it is spaced out between those cutesy passages that I just want to pause out of the recording)

I think you mentioned Glass at one point in the thread. I use some of his work when I am on deadline (I think it is from KOYANISwhatis), as there is a certain frenzied quality that is a real kick in the ass for me.

 

[Kegek]

Koyaanisqatsi. Good choice. The film is also the best in that audio/visual trilogy, though I think his music for Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi is also good. I've heard a number of fine renditions of Also Sprach Zarathustra, it was played in concert here a while back and quite well I assure you.

I listen to music constantly while writing, or reading, though I usually pick whatever I consider appropriate. I listen to a lot of George Templeton Strong when writing... no idea why, something about Sintram stirs me.

 

[RyanKCR]

A Goldsmith soundtrack I would love is Innerspace. Don't know if it was ever released.

 

[Sisu]

I had an Innerspace LP..... probably still do, in some box somewhere....

 

[Mike Farley]

Goldsmith's SUPERGIRL doesn't get nearly enough love.

 

[ClayinCA]

Agreed. I still think it's the single best thing about that movie.