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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: The Musical Poetry of Urban Soundscapes    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3       Last Post   Posted:   Jan 12, 2012 - 6:11 PM     By:   franz_conrad   (Member) Herrmann's TAXI DRIVER, Elliot Goldenthal's HEAT, maybe Vangelis' BLADE RUNNER.....what are some other scores that conjure up the beauty and majesty and maybe moral corruption of urban cityscapes? I'm not necessarily thinking about jazz stuff for urban 70's cop thrillers and such; more the steamy, throbbing, busy atmosphere. Imagine a sunset over skyscrapers and how you would score that. So... we're kind of after music that's been sync'd with images that have a certain atmosphere? Michael Mann films are always good. Antonio Pinto's music for COLLATERAL has that sense of space and disconnection that matches the city more than the cues by Tom Rothrock and James Newton Howard for the same film.    Posted:   Jan 13, 2012 - 4:14 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Herrmann's TAXI DRIVER, Elliot Goldenthal's HEAT, maybe Vangelis' BLADE RUNNER.....what are some other scores that conjure up the beauty and majesty and maybe moral corruption of urban cityscapes? I'm not necessarily thinking about jazz stuff for urban 70's cop thrillers and such; more the steamy, throbbing, busy atmosphere. Imagine a sunset over skyscrapers and how you would score that. So... we're kind of after music that's been sync'd with images that have a certain atmosphere? Michael Mann films are always good. Antonio Pinto's music for COLLATERAL has that sense of space and disconnection that matches the city more than the cues by Tom Rothrock and James Newton Howard for the same film. Yeah, sorry for not being that specific. I gathered the examples would give a clue of the style I was looking for. Anyways, I needed suggestions for an article that is being published on Monday (the selections I chose to include were TAXI DRIVER, HEAT, GOLDEN GATE, THE FUGITIVE, FALLING DOWN, GRAND CANYON, THE SAINT OF FORT WASHINGTON and BLADE RUNNER), and I go into more detail there. Will provide link when it's up. However, keep the suggestions coming, if you have any. This is a topic that has always fascinated me. I'll provide more too, if I think of any.    Posted:   Jan 13, 2012 - 11:26 AM     By:   Mr. Shark   (Member) What's about Trevor Jones's ANGELHEART, SEA OF LOVE and KISS OF DEATH?    Posted:   Jan 13, 2012 - 5:35 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) I am so stupid...there had to be a score somewhere in the mind's ear...and yesterday while driving home from work it hit me that George Gershwin created a terrific piece of extended scoring for a scene in Delicious way back in 1931. I have only seen the sequence once but oh man does this 80-year-old scene still have resonance today. In fact, let me c&p the comments of an IMDB contributor: "Gershwin's Second Rhapsody is the backdrop for an expressionistic sequence in which the despairing Heather wanders around Manhattan, intimidated by crowds, looming buildings, the clatter of the elevated trains, riveters working on a skeletal skyscraper, and the misty, sinister docks. Obvious back-projection does not diminish this dream-like sequence..." PS from the miracle that is called youtube--    Posted:   Jan 13, 2012 - 5:52 PM     By:   Jim Doherty   (Member) In an older vein, I always liked Alfred Newman's STREET SCENE. Check out the Main Title, then the night-into-dawn sequence at 35:46. http://www.archive.org/details/StreetScene1931 Also, Ferde Grofe wrote a great bustling city concert piece called METROPOLIS (no relation to the silent film).    Posted:   Jan 13, 2012 - 10:05 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Looks like they all were onto something back in '31. Great opening sequence all right. Thanks. Always have remembered Beulah Bondi's performance and the way she kinda recreated her Street Scene character in the "Pottersville" segment of It's A Wonderful Life.    Posted:   Jan 17, 2012 - 12:57 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Maybe it was this thread...no, it must have been this thread, but I was on the subway Sat. afternoon heading down to Tree Of Life and I got that sinking eerie feeling just staring out at the tunnel darkness...which was worse on the return trip since it was now evening, so I got off at Times Square and took a long walk along the clean, well-lighted place...then made the mistake of heading over to Broadway toward 47th and had to get out of there; Blade Runner prescience i.e. being surrounded by gigantic TV screens, indeed, had gotten the best of me. Oh man talk about future shock...    Posted:   Jan 17, 2012 - 1:04 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) ..the clean, well-lighted place...    Posted:   Oct 22, 2014 - 2:59 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) While preparing for my interview with Cliff Martinez, it occured to me that he has several scores that fall into this category, like TRAFFIC. Soft guitar pluckings and wide electronic spaces stress the seething romance and decay of the city -- and the psychological traumas nestled within.    Posted:   Oct 22, 2014 - 9:06 AM     By:   bobbengan   (Member) A few come to mind: Roque Banos' OLDBOY John Scott's MAN ON FIRE, LIONHEART, RUBY To a lesser degree, Joel McNeely's TERMINAL VELOCITY    Posted:   Oct 22, 2014 - 10:24 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Howard Shore, Crash and Naked Lunch Don Ellis, The French Connection     General Discussion: The Musical Poetry of Urban Soundscapes    << < 1 2 3  >   Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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