{"id":15254,"date":"2014-02-26T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=15254"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:51:17","slug":"midweek-music-break-a-science-fiction-mini-mix-from-stanley-kubrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/midweek-music-break-a-science-fiction-mini-mix-from-stanley-kubrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: A Science-Fiction Mini-Mix, from Stanley Kubrick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"Keir<\/a><\/td>\n\"Malcolm<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

[Images: Keir Dullea, in <\/em>2001: A Space Odyssey, and Malcolm McDowell, in\u00a0<\/em>A Clockwork Orange]<\/em><\/p>\n

S<\/span>tanley Kubrick made two films unabashedly science-fiction in nature:\u00a02001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>, and\u00a0A Clockwork Orange<\/em>. I think they’re both classics, but will concede that\u00a02001<\/em> is more commonly listed as such by people who’ve seen both; indeed,\u00a0Clockwork Orange<\/em> comes across as a little too, well,\u00a0repellent<\/em> for many people.<\/p>\n

(Understandable: the film’s protagonist\/narrator, Alex, is something of a beastly creature — at once sadistic and self-pitying. That he’s also wry, charming, often quite funny, a victim of circumstances, etc… Well, easy enough to overlook all that if you’re so inclined.)<\/p>\n

Whatever one thinks of the films, the soundtracks worked very, very well as veritable works of art in their own right. The one from\u00a02001<\/em> appears never to have been released — or at least, is no longer available — as a single collection. Luckily, all or most of it came from individual performances (most\/all) which\u00a0are<\/em> available, sometimes in slightly different arrangements, by the same artists.<\/p>\n

Because I’m working on a new SF story, I’ve found myself using these soundtracks quite a bit recently. And I thought I’d share a mini-version of the combined lot here, as a Midweek Music Break.<\/p>\n

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#<\/th>\nComposer\/Title<\/th>\nFilm<\/th>\nLength<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nR. Straus: Also Sprach Zarathustra<\/td>\n2001<\/em><\/td>\n1:47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nRossini: The Thieving Magpie<\/td>\nClockwork<\/em><\/td>\n5:57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTucker: Overture to the Sun<\/td>\nClockwork<\/em><\/td>\n1:47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nBeethoven: Suicide Scherzo
\n(9th\u00a0Symphony, 2nd Movement) (abridged)<\/td>\n		Clockwork<\/em><\/td>\n3:09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nR. Straus: The Blue Danube Waltz<\/td>\n2001<\/em><\/td>\n11:47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nFreed\/Brown: Singin’ in the Rain<\/td>\nClockwork<\/em><\/td>\n2:37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

(Note:<\/strong> The playlist goes automatically from start to finish, once you click the little Play button. To skip to the next number, once a song is playing you’ll find a little fast-forward button to the right of its progress meter — and a fast-rewind to the left, for that matter.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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