Thursday, 22 November 2012

Tradition music, synthesisers and melodeons



I was searchig on youtube for the clockwork orange opening scene for some revisio, I stumbled up on this. It's a giggle but an introduction to a more serious point of research for my work, and the direction I would like to go in.In all it's silliness it does give rise to some interesting ideas about the fusing of two ideas. For me this is something really interesting. I was thinking about how people start to develop their own styles and for me I think the idea of mixing old and new is something that I'd love to encourperate into my work. One example of this is Martynn Bennet, a musician who is one of my main inspirations. I love how he merges spoken word, traditional scottish music and electronica. A sadly missed figure of progressive traditional music, Bennet opened my eyes t a different world of sound. I think that in filmic terms this is incredibly interesting, as it can give an edge to what you're making as any sound should do. I think though it carries such a strong themic idea of moving forward from the past and how the world is changing. Along this theme, referencing again the worrk of Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire in the early days of Synth Technology, I love the idea of how they worked, getting hands on rather than how we do it all through computers. I love that sound that is so typically seventies but I'd love to try something with that sound. It's so unique and goves a quality so unearthly. I think in film it could do so much and even merging the ideals af some one like Martynn Bennett and Derbyshire or Oram could create something that is so new an unique and would give a film a soundtrack unline anyother.

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