Having watched the video’s depicting the future both utopian and dystopian perspectives. One thing I noted was the soundtracks were all pretty epic, creating a further level to the imagery of the dark apocalyptic times.
I was struggling to think of how to describe what would make a perfect sound track to the future.
perhaps discordant, Jarring, ethereal, haunting, powerful, strong – even the words are contradictory
I wondered what other people thought would be a good sound track to the future and decided to use twitter to get instant responses.
Anabel Drought @Edin_Ana
What sound track would you have for your vision of the future movie? #digitalartefact #edcmooc #ededc
I will compile a list and try to create a montage of the music or vote for the most awesome song!!!!!
@pete_wh – started the ball rolling
Dystopian Burial’s Distant Lights
Utopian Eno’s An Ending
@giraf87 suggested Koyaanisqatsi – “The Grand Illusion”
and @jar found Janelle Monae’s Wondaland creepy/catchy…
@dickvestdijk suggested #soundtrack for #digitalartifact – I ‘d like to make it myself, part music part spoken word, part silence. #edcmooc
So what’s mine? Grimes – Genesis – a bit cyberpunk, a bit future, a bit ethereal
Please leave your suggestions here:
as usual, I get totally carried away… love surfing you tube on this…I decided to put bits on my sound wall for this – thanks!
Such an interesting choice to focus on the music for this.
Anabel can I nominate this one that was circulating a couple of weeks ago? REM’s ‘losing my religion’ reworked from minor to major?
http://vimeo.com/57685359#
This is what the future vision would be like – familiar yet unfamiliar, weirdly wrong, uncanny : )
Thank you for your responses
I also want to add @stephjcarr ‘s suggestion – Air – La Femme D’Argent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5bL_XbO64&feature=youtu.be
Now to work out what to do with them all!
http://youtu.be/ko3pohMZLl8
Not too sure there is such a thing as the future ( so Brian Cox tells:) ) (?) Or the past.
I liked that you called this a soundtrack to the mooc–somehow makes it feel like a social event : )
Also made me think about the ‘baggage’ that we attach to certain sounds–for example synthesizer = city = artificial; piano = ocean = natural. Some of these pieces confuse our prior connections as well, e.g. the Brian Eno track…although I guess this might fall into the category of ’80′s new age, computer-hippies being transcendental…!