27 Sunday Oct 2013
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Falling Leaves, a 1912 silent film directed by Alice Guy Blache. 2013 soundtrack composed and performed by Mark Snyder.
The original silent film is in the public domain.
The soundtrack alone can be found here.
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Mark, you’ve gone wonderfully all the way around the bend here! What are you using to make the sounds? Reminds me a good bit of John Cage. PS, I think you might enjoy this, by a fellow ModPo denizen: https://soundcloud.com/bzean123/why-i-am-not-a-poet/s-RzlnF The lyrics are on Kristian Sabado’s essay, “Why I Am Not A Poet.”
Thanks Susan! I am especially grateful because I know that this kind of indeterminate Stockhausen-like music is not really your thing. It means a lot coming from you! I agree, there is a lot of both Stockhausen and Cage in this. Very Chapter 9.
Believe it or not, the only thing I used for the basic track was my 1981 Les Paul Custom. One take. I planned a much more complex score with multiple instruments and parts, but I changed my mind when I heard what I had.
The guitar part by itself was adequate but, really, kind of boring. So before scrapping it, I played around to see what effects would do. There are several layers of effects applied, but the key one was an amplitude modulator (very similar to the ring modulator I put poor Gertrude Stein through). That seemed to have taken away nearly all the fundamental pitches I played, yielding mostly D’s and A’s for reasons I really don’t understand, but the rich partials it imparted have it that bell-like ringing quality I really like- and which makes it sound so strange. Echo and delay created the illusion of multiple instruments, including the drum-like sounds, and created that steady heartbeat-like rhythm.
The final product was nothing like the sound that I had in mind when I started the project. When I heard the final product, I thought I had something really good, really terrible- or maybe both! The thing was, I couldn’t tell!
I *love* that song. Is that Kristian? I shared it with Al and the rest of the staff. I think whoever wrote that should get a certificate right now.
I have much bigger post-ModPo ambitions. I was even thinking of rescoring a full-length feature film, though that’s a *much* bigger undertaking than this was.
Most likely candidate (since it’s in the public domain): George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.