SOUNDS OF SCI-FI

Samplers, sonic spaceships, acoustic science and electro-dystopian visions

Reviews:

• Upstream Colour: Ambitiously cinematic and acoustically effective sci-fi love tale
• Dark Star: In space no one can hear you scream
• Kin-dza-dza!: Russian cult sci-fi satire with a creative use of language: the bizarre Plukanian tongue.

Articles:

• Sensing through Sound: Sinoia Caves’ score for Beyond the Black Rainbow
• Roger Corman: The Producer as Jackdaw Filmmaker
• When Score and Sound Design Become Indistinguishable: The Universality of Evgueni Galperine’s Music for Carré blanc
• In the Loop: The Sound Design in Shane Carruth’s feature debut Primer

Interviews:

• Casting Sound: Upstream Colour sound designer Johnny Marshall talks about the process that led to sound being a unique protagonist in the film

Alter Ego

• Amped author Daniel H. Wilson is Dave Lister from Red Dwarf

Reel Sounds:

• Synthphony for the Ant Nation: Phase IV
• The High Pitch of Strangeness: Ikarie XB-1
• The Weightless Drift of the Claustrophobic Soul: Solaris (1972)
• Monsters from the Id – The Music of Forbidden Planet

Podcasts:

• Kristinia Buozyte on Vanishing Waves: The Lithuanian director talks to Virginie Sélavy about her film, a hypnotic, sensual sci-fi experience in which a scientist connects with the brain of a comatose patient with whom he has increasingly intense neural encounters, which gradually reveal what happened to her.
• The Call of the Kosmos – Soviet Science Fiction: Virginie Sélavy talks to Russian scholar Sergei Kapterev, from the Institute of Film Art in Moscow, about Soviet science fiction, including Roger Corman’s re-edits of popular Soviet sci-fi films.

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Illustration by Laura Gilbert