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Thursday, 6 October 2005
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A very interesting session yesterday, attempting to record soundtracks for two films, in an afternoon.
There was a 50 minute film and an 8 minute film. As it happened we only finished the shorter film.
The concept was to use the improvised approach, that Ralph Franke, Peter
Thurmer and I have been working on now for some months, to produce a
soundtrack in the moment, as we saw a movie open up before us.
We cheated slightly in that we watched the film once first. Well, Ralph
did. I actually saw it twice. Peter was, in fact, the film maker, so he
knew it intimately.
The film was a touching, uncomfortable, true story of a woman's teenage
sexual experience/exploitation some thirty years ago, narrated from her
own journal, and illustrated visually, but not literally.
We played scenes one at a time, and played to them, much as an
orchestra would on a sound stage. The difference was that we had no
score. We had a brief discussion as to tonality, emotional level,
whether we should go for playing with the emotion of the piece or
against it - that kind of thing - then we recorded. We did 3-5 takes
for each of the 8 or 9 scenes. It took a while.
We could have moved on to the second film but were so exhausted by the
discipline of restraint and response that we could not really go on.
Instead, we proceeded to a short blow of the kind we have been having.
Perhaps because of the tight discipline in which we had been working,
we found a great liberation in free playing, even though we mostly
restricted ourselves to addressing themes we have already discovered.
It felt so good! I'm looking forward to hearing the recordings.
We'll meet again next week to look at the other film.
11:34:10 PM 
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A man who modifies Sony PlayStations to enable them to play copied games has won a four-year legal battle against the company.
I think of this as a confirmation of the ruling in the Betamax case.
[ABC News: Science and Technology]
10:49:31 PM
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Fans of non-stop drinking may soon be able to cut down on time wasted
ordering refills, thanks to a beer mat that can tell when a glass is
empty.
So what's wrong with an attentive bar worker using his or her eyes?
[ABC News: Offbeat (with Mpeg1)]
10:27:37 PM
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