#berberian

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Toby Jones

[nihillist-blog]

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

[balu8]

Monsieur Jean: A Trip to Lisbon

by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian

Drawn and Quarterly Vol.2 #6

[anarchic-miscellany]

Terrible Screenplay Ideas: "Better Maxxxine" I don't normally do this. After the events of "X", the only survivor is "Church Mouse" (Jenna Ortega), who is keeping to herself and working through her trauma as a relatively successful audio mixer and sound lady in 80s Hollywood, the height of the video nasties boom. One night, she thinks she hears something when she's mixing the audio for a film, something which should not be there. Is she correct, or is she manifesting her own traumas and fears and survivor's guilt into the picture? A cross between "Berberian Sound Studio" and "Blowout"

[halloweenhundreds]

Berberian Sound Studio is haunted by the supernatural giallo slasher Toby Jones is working on. A movie about cycles and resignation. Very interesting.

[topoet]

Ghedalia Tazartes and Other Ear Stretchers 

  Filed under ’T’ for Tazartes this is a mp3 compliation of challenging ‘music.’ Ghedalia Tazartes – a French ‘composer’ exemplifies the work that stretches ones notions of music. On his Diasporas Tazartes (1979) he gives us a range of the musique concrète genre. This is not lyrical, sometimes not using traditional instruments or concepts. He pioneered the use of sampling, of cutting up tapes &…

[ahauntingclub]

Broadcast: The Equestrian Vortex/Library - A Haunting Edit (2013). Berberian Sound Studio OST, Warp Records - WARPLP233.

Released: Monday the 7th January. Pre-order at Bleep.com

[housefreak]

HE LL ON EARTH;. only the italian is subtitled on both english subtitle tracks. what about the english. is that not allowed to be subtitled TOO

[guardianreadersofthegalaxy]

My ★★★½ review of Empire of Light on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/52iV31

I’ve never seen such a disparity of quality between a film’s script and its production. Sam Mendes’ screenplay delivers multiple moments of toe-curling cringe in its superficial and heavy-handed portrayal of Very Important Topics like The Mental Health and The Racism. Meanwhile master craftsmen like lead actor Olivia Colman, cinematographer Roger Deakins, and composers Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross use all their skills to miraculously make Empire Of Light not only watchable but actually quite moving. For fans of ‘Cinema Paradiso’

[A WEIRD TANGENT: I like to think that this takes place in the same universe as Berberian Sound Studio but ten years later after Toby Jones' Gilderoy got his head straight and retrained as a projectionist. Fun fact, when BSS was adapted for a stage production in 2019 Gilderoy was played by Tom Brooke (Neil). Empire Of Light is very much the Spiderman: No Way Home of the Berberian Sound Studio franchise.]

[allurared]

sad as shit, just cracked open a beer and put on flux gourmet, hope peter strickland's weird bullshit can fix me

[ozkar-krapo]

Luciano BERIO [v. Cathy BERBERIAN]

"Recital 1 (For Cathy)"

(LP. RCA. 1976 / rec. 1972) [IT/US]

[dipnotski]

Kolektif – Asiler Devri (2024)

İmparatorlukların yıkılıp ulus-devletlerin kurulduğu 20. yüzyıla varan süreçte Osmanlı, Habsburg, Romanov ve Kaçar imparatorluklarının sınırlarına büyük bir hareketlilik hâkimdi. Kalıplaşmış siyasi hayat baştan aşağıya değişiyordu. ‘Asiler Devri’, bu süreçte Balkanlar’dan Kafkasya ve Ortadoğu’ya uzanan geniş bir coğrafyayı şiddet yoluyla şekillendiren eşkıyaların, isyancıların, çetecilerin ve…

[balu8]

Monsieur Jean (Drawn and Quarterly #3)

by Philippe Dupuy; Charles Berberian and Isabelle Busschaert

[wordofthewolf]

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

I used to be a sound designer for live theater. Some who have been reading my blog since its inception might know that. When I studied theater production and design in college for my major, it was something that not a lot of people were interested in. I immediately took to it and eventually spent a lot of time in the booth on little projects of my own or helping with shows. It eventually became…

[julio-viernes]

Pero Sabicas no se quedó ahí, y en el año 1971 salió a la venta el LP "The Soul Of Flamenco And The Essence Of Rock". En esta ocasión parece ser - porque no está debidamente documentado- que el guitarrista de rock principal fue Mike Deasy, en un disco producido por The Hip Kitty From New York City y grabado ese mismo año en Hollywood y publicado por la Cultural Development Corporation, que al parecer no sacó muchos más discos aparte de éste. Un LP mucho más complicado de conseguir que "Rock Encounter", muchísimo más raro de ver.

De ser realmente Deasy quien toca en este disco, tenía un currículo impresionante como guitarrista de rock. Tocó en las bandas de Eddie Cochran y Duane Eddy, con los Coasters, fue miembro de la Wrecking Crew y su guitarra se puede escuchar en "Pet Sounds" de los Beach Boys, entre muchísimas otras cosas.

Es otro disco de encuentro entre el flamenco y el rock del que, otra vez, leo algunos comentarios negativos, que si Sabicas toca mal, desganado, porque odiaba el rock y lo hacía por motivos comerciales... Es un LP que está bastante bien (arriba entero) y que merece la pena ser escuchado. En esta ocasión los temas son más largos, dos en cara A y tres en cara B, frente a los ocho del anterior.

Creo que la sucesión lógica es, olvidándonos de 1966, "Rock Encounter" (1970) y "The Soul Of Flamenco And The Essence Of Rock" (1971), precedidos del disco de fusión de Joe Beck y John Berberian, "Middle Eastern Rock" de 1969 adjudicado a John Berberian And The Rock East Ensemble, que fue el detonante para grabar los de Sabicas y del que hablaré a continuación en otro post.

Escuchando el segundo tema de la cara A "Castellañas (Kossteyanas)", me ha sido imposible por cuestiones melódicas no acordarme de mi amigo Pau Riba y su "Per Què Fer Res" del LP "Disc Dur" (1993).

Por cierto, que Kiko Veneno ha grabado con los Crudo Pimiento una maqueta de una canción en honor a Pau que piensa incluir en su nuevo LP. Es una cosa bonita que empieza en acústico y pasa, un poco planetariamente, al eléctrico. Pau Riba pronto llegará.

Bellotero Rock.

[theharpermovieblog]

#HARPERSMOVIECOLLECTION

2023

I watched Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

A horror film that deals with something we often overlook in film, the sound.

A British sound engineer is hired to work on an Italian horror film.

Tobey Jones is a damn good actor, and what interested me the most in this film was that he plays the lead. What also peaked my interest was that this film plays off the classic Italian Giallo horror films of the 1970's.

Director Peter Strickland clearly cares about film and has a love for these old Giallo films and filmmaking in general. He's directed a very good looking film here with a lot going for it.

This film is all about sound. Early on in the movie Tobey Jones' character, who is an Englishman on the job in italy, plays recordings he made of his home. It helps him feel less homesick. He spendd the rest of his time creating sound for a horror film, which we never see but we hear the recordings for. We hear the spooky spoken lines, the eerie music, the splatter, etc... Just like the effect the tapes from home have to calm him, the things he is hearing when making the film have an effect as well.

He's also dealing with the pressure of being in a new place with strangers and feeling unwelcome and taken advantage of. It's a very awkward and uncomfortable film. That discomfort builds the tension which is only irked by the intense sounds and the haunting sounds. Like any good horror film, this keeps you on edge and feeling anxious for what may come.

Strickland's visual direction is beautiful. It's all his style along with these beautiful touches of Giallo style. The pull outs and close-ups jump off screen. He does a great job of turning a film about the making of a Giallo horror into a Giallo inspired slow burn psychological horror, using sound and visual language.

Most people will be turned off by this film. There are no murders or monsters or really anything. Some actresses in the faux Italian film are mistreated by the director and there's some minor shady business going on, but nothing of true "horror". The film also doesn't have a clear conclusion. The best I can make out is that our lead character is completely distorted and warped by being a part of the filmmaking process. He's never able to successfully stand up to his abusers or to help any of the mistreated women. Eventually he just becomes part of the thing he hates in almost every sense.

Personally I liked this a lot. It's very well made and does what it sets out to do, which is to make us think differently about sound and media, and to effect us through sound. It's further messages are there to be dug into as well, which never hurts. If I recommend this to anyone there is a chance they'll hate it, so I'll just say that I quite enjoyed it.