CH. 02
Music & Cinema

Intro
The notion that sound relates to hearing while images are addressed to the eyes seems rather consensual, however the result of these relations turns out to be much more complex. The phenomenon of this intersection gained a different popularity after 1894, when William Kennedy Dickson (1860-1935) recorded the first sound experience reproduced in film. The music chosen for that inauguration belonged to an opera by Robert Planquette (1848-1903) and was entitled Song Of The Cabin Boy. In 1927, Alan Crosland (1894-1936) directed the film; The Jazz Singer and included, for the first time, a soundtrack synchronized with the movie’s images, debuting the era of sound film. Since then we have seen a constant renewal of experiences that cross sound with image or, more specifically, music with cinema. Composers such as Nino Rota (1911-1979), John Barry (1933-2011), Ennio Morricone (1928) or Burt Bacharach (1928) will always be remembered as ones who stood out as soundtrack composers of more or less well known films. This chapter of Clube da Esquina rounds up different approaches of music that intersects cinema, cinema that intersects music, or how music is thought in relation to cinema. The program is, therefore, a comeback to the term Audio-Vision. Thank you Michel Chion (1947).
Tracklist
- Jeanne Moreau
Un Entretien Avec Jeanne Moreau (8:50)
Claude Coppens joue Erik Satie Merry Clayton & Bernard Krause
Performance (1:47)
For the film Performance (1970)
directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas RoegGlenn Branca
Augustus (1:36)
For the film The Belly Of An Architect (1987)
directed by Peter GreenawayLee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra
Some Velvet Morning (3:45)
In the film Morvern Callar (2002)
directed by Lynne RamsayRolling Stones
Cocksucker Blues (3:32)
In the film Cocksuckers Blues (1972)
directed by Robert FrankThe Kinks
Nothin’ In The World Can Stop Me
Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl … (2:44)
In the film The American Friend (1977)
directed by Wim WendersJohn Fahey
Dance Of Death (7:39)
In the film Zabriskie Point (1970)
directed by Michelangelo AntonioniJohnny Mandel
Suicide Is Painless (2:55)
In the film MASH (1970)
directed by Robert AltmanElliott Smith
Angeles (2:56)
In the film Paranoid Park (2007)
directed by Gus Van SantThe Roots
Act Won (Things Fall Apart) (0:54)
Sample dialogue from the film
Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
directed by Spike LeeTekitha
Walking Through The Darkness (5:17)
In the film Ghost Dog (1999)
directed by Jim JarmuchRonee Blakley
Lightning Over Water (5:06)
For the film Lightning Over Water (1980)
directed by Nicholas Ray and Wim WendersKate Bush
Hounds Of Love (3:03)
Sample dialogue from the film
Curse Of The Demons (1967)
directed by Jacques TourneurTom Tom Club
Genius Of Love (5:34)
In the film Shame (2011)
directed by Steve McQueenLiquid Liquid
Cavern (5:21)
In the film Downtown 81 (1981)
directed by Edo BertoglioJohn Carpenter
Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Title) (3:31)
For the film Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
directed by John CarpenterPara One
Girlhood (2:25)
For the film Girlhood (2014)
directed by Céline SciammaGolpe De Estado
Blade Runner.SNG (5:41)
Sample dialogue from the film
Blade Runner (1982)
directed by Ridley ScottDJ Shadow
Stem (Cops And Robbers Mix) (3:46)
Sample dialogue from the film Heat (1995)
directed by Michael MannHenri Mancini
Lujon (2:38)
In the film Two Lovers (2009)
directed by James GrayMeredith Monk
Do You Be (4:03)
In the film Nouvelle Vague (1990)
directed by Jean-Luc GodardGontiti
Morning (Asa) (2:52)
For the film Still Walking (2008)
directed by Hirokazu KoreedaNeil Young & Crazy Horse
Safeway Cart (6:32)
In the film Beau travail (1999)
directed by Claire DenisCan
Vitamin C (3:31)
In the film Inherent Vice (2014)
directed by Paul Thomas AndersonFrank Zappa
Dirty Love (2:57)
In the film The Ice Storm (1997)
directed by Ang LeeHarry Nilsson
Coconut (3:48)
In the film Reservoir Dogs (1992)
directed by Quentin TarantinoJevetta Steele
Calling You (5:20)
In the film Bagdad Cafe (1987)
directed by Percy AdlonMiles Davis
Au Bar Du Petit Bac (2:50)
For the film Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud (1958)
directed by Louis MalleDavid Byrne
The Great Western Road (4:43)
For the film Young Adam (2003)
directed by David MackenzieStewart Copeland
Motorboy’s Fate (2:06)
For the film Rumble Fish (1983)
directed by Francis Ford CopollaDerek Jarman
Ages & Aeons Quit the Room (1:47)
For the film Blue (1993)
directed by Derek JarmanMark Knopfler
Stargazer (1:31)
For the film Local Hero (1983)
directed by Bill Forsyth