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Hey folks.
I just took delivery of Arrow's new 4K disc of Leslie Stevens' INCUBUS.
It has an isolated score track which I didn't see advertised in the blurb, so this was a nice surprise.
Newly assembled reconstruction by music historian Jason Kruppa, apparently
Cheers
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Incubus utilized library stock music from THE OUTER LIMITS, so most of the music has been already available in La-La Land's 3-CD set from 2008.
My impression is that JKruppa's re-construction is MIDI/synthesizer replication? I recall another thread on this wherein youtube samples were posted on music from "Controlled Experiment" and "Nightmare", I think.
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The booklet says the isolated score was constructed mostly by assembling the original music that was used and replicating John Caper's edits to transform it into a score for this film. That process left some pieces still missing. The missing pieces were reconstructed with MIDI programming, the notes say.
Cheers
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Jan 9, 2025 - 1:35 PM
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jkruppa
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Hi, yes I reconstructed the score from the original recordings.
As I mention in the notes, only a few seconds of music was otherwise unavailable, so I recreated it using sample libraries. The rest is from the tapes, more or less; I had to do a LOT of edits and little adjustments to get the music to match the picture. David Schow, Reba Wissner and Bill Wrobel sent me copies of Frontiere's handwritten scores so I could match titles to pieces of music, but the missing bits were notably *not* among those scores so I recreated them by ear. Again, probably less than 30 seconds total, and I did my best to get them to match the sound of the other cues.
Seeing as how I've been dabbling in recreating film scores, I may eventually (one day, not today) take on the Incubus source music, now that I have all the scores for The Mice and Nightmare. I discovered after going through the written scores that some of that music has never been released and may not exist anymore, and some things may not have even been recorded. Now I just have to build an ONAFETS...
David Schow has also just finished a book about the film, which I contributed to, and which will be out in the near future.
As for the film, it's never looked better than the scan Arrow is using. I'm very happy to have had a little connection to this project.
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Will the new book by David Schow & Jason Kruppa on Incubus be written in Esperanto?
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Jan 10, 2025 - 4:14 AM
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Badzeee
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Hi, yes I reconstructed the score from the original recordings.
As I mention in the notes, only a few seconds of music was otherwise unavailable, so I recreated it using sample libraries. The rest is from the tapes, more or less; I had to do a LOT of edits and little adjustments to get the music to match the picture. David Schow, Reba Wissner and Bill Wrobel sent me copies of Frontiere's handwritten scores so I could match titles to pieces of music, but the missing bits were notably *not* among those scores so I recreated them by ear. Again, probably less than 30 seconds total, and I did my best to get them to match the sound of the other cues.
Seeing as how I've been dabbling in recreating film scores, I may eventually (one day, not today) take on the Incubus source music, now that I have all the scores for The Mice and Nightmare. I discovered after going through the written scores that some of that music has never been released and may not exist anymore, and some things may not have even been recorded. Now I just have to build an ONAFETS...
David Schow has also just finished a book about the film, which I contributed to, and which will be out in the near future.
As for the film, it's never looked better than the scan Arrow is using. I'm very happy to have had a little connection to this project.
It's great reading this, sir. Thanks for all your and all your historian colleagues' efforts - they are really appreciated!
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[Genuine LOLs here]