Friday, 8 August 2014

Louis & Bebe Barron

Forbidden Planet (1956) ...

Louis & Bebe Barron's soundtrack for the classic sci-fi Forbidden Planet, the first totally electronic movie soundtrack and sound effects ...

A Shangri-La In The Desert / Garden With A Cuddly Tiger

 

 

Ancient Krell Music ...

Louis would invent a circuit and put it together. Then we would activate the circuit: it would come to life, and we would amplify it and start to tape it. And it would produce a burst of the most glorious kind of energy and electronic activity.
That would level out a little bit - go on along a plateau. And then, in a moment of glory, it died - the electronic explanation would be that it overloaded in some way. But you could hear it climaxing, and the thing then would just give out, and run down to zero.
We could never get them to start up again after they died - each had a lifespan of its own... Bebe Barron
 

Forbidden Planet documetary featuring the Barrons ... 

 Elementary electronics ...

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