Manic
Media: Sound work
Duration: 6'10
Date: 1998
Written for:
Illegal Arts/Negativland CD
Audio Extract
File Size:1.4Mb Duration: 3'16
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Manic
is based entirely on the soundtrack of the Roman Polanski thriller Frantic.
It uses snippets of the Morricone score as well as snatches of dialogue
and sound effects. I wanted to reflect the nature of the film within
as short a time-span as possible, to make a fast-forward condensed version
which heightens the pace and tension of the film to the nth. degree.
I also see it in some ways as an 'alternative' version of the soundtrack,
seen through a distorting lens. Nothing is quite as it seems - sound
effects are combined in surreal contexts, and the music is taken apart
and reassembled into something that (sometimes) still sounds like Morricone,
but is actually very far from the original. I think I've ended up with
the soundtrack to another film, not yet made, which bears a passing
similarity to Frantic, but is altogether more peculiar..
Additional Information:
- Wrriten for the Illegal Arts/Negativland CD Extracted Celluloid, a collection of works based entirely on (illegal) samples from Mainstream cinema.
- Extracted Celluloid was released in May 1999.
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