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I’ve got 2 movies with albums listed there, and 1 song/scene:
1) “Dark Side of the Rainbow,” suggested by Dav I.D. (But not really)
FILM: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
ALBUM: Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
SYNC: Begin album @ 3rd lion’s roar, the first time the MGM logo appears during the movie.
2) “Reanimated Animals,” suggested by Dav I.D.
FILM: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
ALBUM: Pink Floyd: Animals (1977)
SYNC: Begin album and movie at the same time.
3) “Dreaming Neon Sunrise,” suggested by Dav I.D.
SCENE: “The Man” meets with “The Woman from the City,” from Sunrise (1927)
SONG: Nevermore: Dreaming Neon Black (1999)
SYNC: Begin song when you see the long tracking shot begin of “The Man” walking outside to meet “The Woman from the City” for the first time.
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I read that Disney’s original animated “Alice in Wonderland” sychronizes well with Pink Floyd’s The Wall if you exclude (sadly enough) “Comfortably Numb”.
I’ve also read that in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989), before Prince signed on to do any original songs, Burton and Jack Nicholson agreed on using his songs “1999” (from the album of the same name) and “Baby, I’m a Star” (from “Purple Rain”) during scenes in the film, most likely the art museum scene (which is filled in by “Partyman”) and the money parade sequence (filled in by “Trust”). I’ve played the single edit of “1999” over the “Partyman” sequence and find that the movements of Joker and his cronies go rather harmoniously with the song, and the same with “Baby, I’m a Star” (which in fact is equal in running time to “Trust” at 4 minutes and 24 seconds). Not a serious juxtaposition, of course, but obviously the original choices would’ve probably been well enough had not Warner Bros. insist on Prince to cash in for them.
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Play Tom Rothrock’s “LAX” at 1 minute and 26 seconds into The Dark Knight scene. It doesn’t exactly fit like a glove but it seems to correspond well overall.
wow, cool, i’ve been doing this a few years ago, when i was watching my first warhols, but i don’t remember the combinations i was making at the time.
what i remember is that i watched, at some point, the bat of 1926 while playing one of nurse with wound’s album, i think it was Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella , but i am not sure. there must have been more from nww than this one, i think spiral insana was played as well. sadly,the hardest – actually impossible – thing to remember is when exactly the song started to match the film sequences, nww aren’t/isn’t doing an overall rhythmical, previsible landscape, it was entirely due to a happy chance that the matching, almost perfect, happened.
happily, i made a comment on griffith’s intolerance wall, that goes like: “any suggestion on soundtracking? i soundtracked it with Aribert Reimann, Amp (Soft Stone Soul goes excellent with the child confiscation scene by the members of the evil foundation), Mendel Kaelen, Diagnose: Lebensgefahr, and the last part totally submerged under Emeralds’ voracious spell.”
and i remember totally changing my optics – and easier going through – warhol’s apple chewing man in eating after synching it with eduard artemiev .
thank you for advancing this fantastic challenge, i am going into music again!
i am extremely eager to hear from people suggestions of films to match with Khanate, Diamanda Galas (medea?) and Runhild Gammelsæter.
@ RAPCIUNE
Diamanda Galas, I’ve thought about applying “The Litanies of Satan” to some scene, as it brings to mind for me the films of Pasolini and Kenneth Anger…
@Charles Deckert
yeess, she is a force, she should be matched to something just as powerful.
anyways, the best thing to wish for, in my opinion, is attaining that astonishing mixture of common human situations combined with phenomenal music, that gives an overworn human experience a newness and intensity that moves, while not being manipulative, exploitative or purely aesthetical. hungarians and scandinavians have this awesome musical intuition. the thing i admire them most for is that they sail away from that peaceful harbour of cinematic pseudo-classical music to depict the sinusoidal paths of human psyche.was it in sugisball that a child is lost and mother’s despair is synced to bohren and der club of gore’s music, to an almost excruciating effect? okay, that’s estonian :D and okay, it’s not sugisball, but sugisball still has GYBE!
WHAT HOW DID I MISS ALL THESE POSTS.
I’m about to look into all these new syncs and update it y’all.
Thanks for not minding my obnoxious bumping.
Oh, and in the mean time- though this isn’t directly tied to the syncs we’re hunting for- I IMPLORE YOU to take the 15 minutes to watch this breathtaking sound/picture editing in motion.
(All video clips are taken from trailer footage of various 2000s movies)
Here’s the link to the sync list, updated w/ CHARLESDECKERT’s suggestion:
http://mubi.com/lists/synchronicles-syncing-music-to-film
Dav I.D.
The following is from my list that shares the same title as this topic:
“CALLING ALL AUDIOPHILES, CINEPHILES, AND AUDIOCINEPHILES:
Its time to put our collective ears and eyes together into one big mass of synchronicity. If you’ve found any amazing combinations of music and film, please list them here so we can build this list!
Full albums are ideal, but if there’s a particular song that fits with a scene somewhere, why not include it?"
Try to come up with a neat title for your combination, and the appropriate moment to sync the two."
Accepted submissions will be added there for the public to view at this link:
http://mubi.com/lists/synchronicles-syncing-music-to-film
Your MUBI username will be displayed next to each submission that you have suggested.
Hope this thing gets going!