Now I’ve got the “Bladerunner” theme playing with Brakhage. Incredible. The Brakhage piece is titled “Love Song”

It doesn’t work with Glenn Miller.

Elaine suggested I try other movie themes to see if they synch up since Brakhage is painting every frame separately and they are being displyed at 24 frames a second. I can see why this causes some people headaches.

Didn’t seem to work with the Strausses. Seems to work with Schuman.Deinitely works with “Aufschwang” (used in “Heat and Dust”)

Now the “Clockwork Orange” music. Beethoven’s 9th Choral works. The “William Tell Overture is not starting out well. But we haven’t got to the Lone Ranger part. It start to mesh when the storm arrives. Rossini is so derivitive. The morning breaks and the birds and flowers joyfully greet the sun? But still keeping synch. The Lone Ranger has arrived, nine minutes into the overture? It works.

Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance March #1” works right from the start. The familiar processional doerns’t snap to as muxh as the rest of the piece, but it works as a whole.

Next we have Canon in D from Pachelbel, used in “Ordinary People”. I am familiar with this piece as a bit of meditative music, but laying it over “Love Song” I think it works. A little more drawn out than the others, but in synch. More like four frames per beat instead of one or two frames per beat.

Now we come to “The Ride of the Valkeries” This will never work… I wonder if Brakhage was listening to Wagner when he composed “Love Song?

One thing I learned tonight. If you want to know if a piece of music will work as a movie soundtrack, run it against some of Brakhage’s films.