"Forbidden Planet" score on Morning Edition

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Tomorrow's Morning Edition on NPR will have a segment on the electronic score
for "Forbidden Planet" and the husband-and-wife team who created it.

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"William Sommerwerck" <williams@nwlink.com> wrote in
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> Tomorrow's Morning Edition on NPR will have a segment on the
> electronic score for "Forbidden Planet" and the husband-and-wife team
> who created it.

That would be Monday, Feb 7?

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>> Tomorrow's Morning Edition on NPR will have a segment on the electronic
>> score for "Forbidden Planet" and the husband-and-wife team who created it.

> Love Louis and Bebe!

In one of its rare moments of good sense, AMPAS gave them a special award.

By the way, the soundtrack is available on GNP Crescendo.

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>> By the way, the soundtrack is available on GNP Crescendo.

> Believe it or not, I've got it.
> Believe it or not, I even listen to it occasionally. : )
> "Forbidden Planet" is in my top 5.

I dug my copy out and listened to most of it. It's remarkable music by any
standards, not even considering how difficult it was to create electronic music
in the mid-'50s.

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:38:21 -0800, "William Sommerwerck"
<williams@nwlink.com> wrote:

>>> By the way, the soundtrack is available on GNP Crescendo.
>
>> Believe it or not, I've got it.
>> Believe it or not, I even listen to it occasionally. : )
>> "Forbidden Planet" is in my top 5.
>
>I dug my copy out and listened to most of it. It's remarkable music by any
>standards, not even considering how difficult it was to create electronic music
>in the mid-'50s.

I've had the CD for some years -- I and my son both love it; wife
hates it.

Several years ago, in fooling around with some of the computer
programs which came with "The Sound Blaster Book", I found I was able
to use some math functions to produce some sounds which were somewhat
reminiscent of certain of the sounds from "Forbidden Planet". It
occurred to me at the time how really time-consuming and difficult it
must have been in the mid-50's to produce those sounds; I have a
great admiration for what the Barrons achieved.

Is anyone aware of sources of more detailed information on how they
accomplished their work?

I look forward to the Morning Edition segment, though I'll have to
pick it up from their audio archive pages after tomorrow.


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<<Several years ago, in fooling around with some of the computer
programs which came with "The Sound Blaster Book", I found I was able
to use some math functions to produce some sounds which were somewhat
reminiscent of certain of the sounds from "Forbidden Planet". It
occurred to me at the time how really time-consuming and difficult it
must have been in the mid-50's to produce those sounds; I have a
great admiration for what the Barrons achieved.

Is anyone aware of sources of more detailed information on how they
accomplished their work? >>

Yes. Louis B. was interested in cybernetics and what he and Bebe did was to
create little electronic circuits that would feed back on themselves in various
ways and eventually burn out, producing interesting sounds in the process.
They recorded these sounds and then did standard tape manipulation with them
plus reverb.
elaterium@aol.com (Mark Steven Brooks/Elaterium Music)

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"Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.dowdy@commiecast.net> wrote in message
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> "hank alrich" <walkinay@thegrid.net> wrote in message
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>> William Sommerwerck wrote:
>>
>> > >> By the way, the soundtrack is available on GNP Crescendo.
>>
>> > > Believe it or not, I've got it.
>> > > Believe it or not, I even listen to it occasionally. : )
>> > > "Forbidden Planet" is in my top 5.
>>
>> > I dug my copy out and listened to most of it. It's remarkable music by
> any
>> > standards, not even considering how difficult it was to create
> electronic
>> > music in the mid-'50s.
>>
>> That was before the invention of electricty!
>>
> What'd they do, rub sheep?
>
> Glenn D.
>

One of my favorite things to do for sure, but what's that got to do with
making music?

John L Rice