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I thought this would be one of my typical 'Midweek Interlude' throwaways! An half-hour experiment with a cello sample and a bit of a mess about with a short demo on a drum kit I came across. Then Indulge myself with an early bit of film history! However, it seems to have caught some interest - not sure why??? Must give it some thought!!

Thanks KM! Yes, I was chuffed when I came across the footage and thought something I do must work with that!!!

Hi, not sure what is meant by the designation 'k', but thanks for dropping by and finding time to comment!!

I think my approach to music/film was inspired by a classic rock music show on British TV which began in the early 1970s called 'The Old Grey Whistle Test'. It stood out by inviting proper rock groups/artists into the studio to play a live set. When a band couldn't come in, the track would be played against clips from old films. Initially, this could be as simple as using an early film in its entirety (as I have done here); later they got some talented individual to cut old film to suit the track. I would love to be able to get up to his standard which was superb!!!!

The oldies are the goldies!!!!

Yes, it was fun playing with samples of (a largely) bowed cello!!

Thanks MB! How are your creative juices flowing????

@@MalleableSound 😃👍Need to get something done definitely 🎶

Not as good as 'Lost in Space' though!!

@@MalleableSound Your storyline wasn't quite as expansive. 😁

As this is abstract music and video, it really is up to the listener to decide where the experience fixes for them. Sci-fi and space is fine! For our generation, I blame 'Lost in Space' for running us down this rabbit hole!!!

@@MalleableSound I recently enjoyed the newer series of that on Netflix.

Many thanks! Pleased you dropped by!!

Yes! There's something strangely relaxing about the film. Pity the soundtrack gets in the way!!!!!😃

@@MalleableSoundno way. It all works well together!

I guess I'm continually confronting that question with the approach I am taking!! You'll know better than I about all this stuff, but I've happily encountered the futurists, the constructivists, and now European abstract Impressionism in my modest endeavors!!!

@@MalleableSound Looking at Wikipedia I can see that these movements have been reconsolidated under different headings, the European movement is now know as Informalism and even includes trends like COBRA, and on the American side it's Abstract Expressionism.

Yes! I had enough of 'somber architectural coldness' for a while - but it will be back!!!!

Glad you think so!

Thank you kindly!

@@MalleableSound You are very welcome.

I was surprised how this one turned out. 95% of the time, my messing with another tune turns out garbage/chaos, but somehow this one held together??? Fortunate you were able to see Can. I'm still working on my 'wayback machine' so that I can time travel back and see all the great band/musicians of the past!! Just need a 5 amp fuse, a bit of wire, goggles and I'm off ...

@@MalleableSound be sure to buy two fuses , you wouldn't want to be stuck in a better era..... 🙃

@@loopbasedzero That would necessitate a longer piece of wire, but I take your point ...

An interesting tune to start with, and I spiced it up a little!!!

You certainly did ;)

Hi Nico, thanks for dropping by!! No idea what 'EXP' means?? Hope it is positive!!!

@@MalleableSound EXPERIMENTAL

Spot On!!!

@@MalleableSound YOUR WELCOME

Hi PSC, thanks for the support!! This one's struggled to attract viewers - perhaps it's too mind blowing????

Hello S.Wilson, many thanks for the time you devoted to the video and your detailed comments. I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you!!! I'm an experimental musician who adds video to the music. So, in nearly all cases I use found footage, obscure material from which I select and re-edit. It is akin to sampling in the music world. So, the film you see was shot in 1969/70 as a graduation project by a film student and is feature length. It is called 'Stereo' - hence my title. I selected scenes, cut them together and added the bug-eyed lens effect. I was interested in creating an overall paranoid feeling with the music and enhanced by the film. I claim no background or ability in film, but do recognize how it impacts the music, making the whole more YT friendly!!!! You clearly have considerable knowledge about film and it was fascinating to read your observations!! I hope you are not too disappointed???? Or angry???

@@MalleableSound Not disappointed, nor angry. That's a greater achievement in what you've done with limited source footage. I'll consider your workflow when I comment in future. Well Done.

It's great to find obscure footage like this, add a bug-eyed lens effect, and bob's your uncle!!!

Yes, pollution getting to be so terrible it even affects ancient Greek myths!!!

Ahhh! That's where our personalities differ!! I was only thinking about the charms of beautiful women!!!

@@MalleableSound that too, my first thought was to compare how little difference there was in these Pre-Raphaelite beauties, and contemporary fairy - or faerie - illustrations, some things essentially never change.

You're right!!!

Fine! Sounds like a good idea. How do we get samples to each other? I'm loath to put up my personal email on YT!!! You have experience of external collaboration, perhaps there's a way????

@@MalleableSound I believe my email is on my channel page under Contact? Let me know if that's not the case. Which country are you located in, by the way?

@@karlmontevirgen8840 Found ypur Email, will contact you so that you have my address. I'm based in the north-west of England.

@@MalleableSound 👍

I was well-pleased with the way the film turned out!! As for 'Get Carter' - unless it was hidden in a sample I used?????

@@MalleableSound It's a hint of the opening of that key refrain they used. Quite an unusual sound.

@@DistanceFromZeroBand It states on the sleeve of my vinyl copy of the OST album of 'Get Carter' that the instruments used were: harpsichord, double bass, tablas, electric piano and shaker!!!! Must add to the collection!!!

Thanks MB!! Can't resist such amazing images from old films!!!

Glad you liked it! Looking forward to October 4th - bring it on!!

@@MalleableSound We've put it on Bandcamp as a preview 😁

@@DistanceFromZeroBand Good luck!!

Hi KM, thanks for dropping by!!! Theatre is a blind spot for me (my loss I guess)!! Funny you should mention Henze as I'm currently watching the obscure British film 'Comrades' (1986), which has some incidental music by Henze!!! Peter Weiss's 'Marat/Sade', influenced by Artaud, is pretty interesting!!!

@@MalleableSound Yes, I've seen that! Brings me back to my grad school days, where I focused on a lot of transgressive lit.

I presume you are referring to 'Marat/Sade'? Was it a stage version, or the British film of Peter Brook's famous stage version of the 1960s???

@@MalleableSound I once heard a live broadcast, in a movie theater of Artaud's To Have Done With the Judgement of God - talk about extreme audio art!

I'm waiting for it to turn up on Netflix!!!!

I've been practicing the Hexentanz!! Pretty sure I shouldn't post it up on YT!!!!

Hi LBZ, thanks for tuning in! Not familiar with these compositions! I'm more informed by an earlier generation - Henk Badings, Remi Gassman, Pierre Henry, Karl-Birger Blomdahl ... I must get more up-to-date!!!

@@MalleableSound Pierre Henry and George Crumb are fairly contemporaries, Crumb write from the 1940's to the 2010's.

I've got some vinyl LPs of Crumb, but they don't seem to include any music for dance!!! I guess I concentrated on collecting electronic music for dance, of which I have a number of vinyl LPs!! Still my preferred way of listening to music!!!

@@MalleableSound The suite may more correctly be titled Black Angels, for amplified string instruments.

Ah!! I have an LP box set titled 'The Avant Garde String Quartet in the USA' (1973), played by the Concord String Quartet. It includes Crumb's 'Black Angels', but nowhere does it suggest it was to accompany dance???? Best thing, it is signed by Crumb!!! Offers solicited!!!

Hi KO, thanks for listening and feeding back!!! There was an important tradition of using electronic music in experimental dance in the 1950s and early 1960s. I like to acknowledge that!! I hope the brain reset was painless????

@@MalleableSound I like when I come across something that I’m not sure how to process. It was a necessary reset👍

Does what it says on the tin!!!

@@MalleableSoundyes indeed

Hi SH, never thought I would see the terms 'guitar shreddage' and 'proto-thrash metal' being used in reference to my music!!!! Off for another lie down!!!!

Thanks MB!!

These are some scenes from the Canadian experimental film 'Vertige' (1969).

Glad you liked it!!!!

Hi, the mid-week interludes shouldn't be taken too seriously!!! It's basically a dumping ground for bits and bobs which didn't make it into the main compositions, or little ideas that amuse me. The latter in this case!! It is no more than a concept that I wanted to chase up! Work up a sample of minimalist music, turn a lecture into a piece of pseudo-scientific babble to contrast with the simplicity of the music, then add something cinematic which (wittily) speaks to the idea of minimalism!!! The voice effects: original sample, layered with re-pitched versions of the sample, bit of cutting and shifting of relative positions, odd bits of delay interspersed in the mix, and hey presto!!! Very time consuming but can turn out quite effective. In danger of over-using the technique (some pieces to upload), so need to step back and find other, more musical, ways to getting out of a tight corner in a composition!!!

You have been busy on my channel!!! Be mindful that doctors recommend no more than one piece a day!!!!

Hi, this was built up from a sample of a harmonium of all things!! Glad you liked it!!!

Not familiar with the term 'nungled'? Hope it doesn't hurt?????

@@MalleableSound Nah it just feels a bit gooled

Not familiar with the term 'nungled'? Hope it doesn't hurt?????

Yes, I've heard of that distributor - more your territory than mine, I think!!!

What are you suggesting 😯 ​@@MalleableSound

Now you're talking!!! Anthony Balch is a very interesting character. probably the only filmmaker to straddle the experimental, commercial and exploitation fields!!!! The film I have quoted from is 'Vertige' (Canada, 1969). There have been a number of attempts to provide a score for the whole film! I, of course, am using the film to illustrate some music!!

Many Thanks for dropping by and leaving your impression!!

Many thanks! Glad to have you in my corner!!

Not sure what you mean by 'introduction'? My explanation of the piece on the channel page? The film started out as a concept I felt would support the music. As I cut it together I came to like it in its own terms, feeling it was becoming a proper 'materialist' piece of cinema - the sort of thing expounded by filmmakers like Le Grice and Gidal in the early 1970s!!!

Thanks! Just a bit of fun, really!!! Although I was pleased with the way the video turned out!! Would stand alone as a piece of abstract cinema I think!!

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