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there is a screening here in a theater with a band that plays the blade runner soundtrack live to the film.

I'm kina enthusiastic about the fact Blade Runner is running in a cinema again but then the LIVE MUSIC THING annoys me. I don't know if it's gonna be good or destroying the movie because you can't top the original Vangelis Score. I'm also not a fan of the orchestral Blade Runner Soundtrack ... The music means so much to me in this movie

what do you think ? Is it a worth seeing regardless the live music?

Please post link to this...if you have one. Where and when is this? lol

it's in zurich (switzerland)

http://www.arthouse.ch/film/12071_id.html

Sounds awesome. If you have the opportunity...go see it!

Seeing it with music brings a whole new light...a new life...an interesting perspective on this film. Be open to this!

Look at this as not a replacement, but an enhancement.





http://ewz.stattkino.com/2009/filme/blade.html

you're maybe right, but as I said I'm a friend of Blade Runner Orchestra Music it must be the synthesized warm sound!!

It's not an orchestra it's about 3-4 people and I hope their gonna have some synthies with them

the other thing that bothers me that the music cru is right under the screen.

here are some pictures of the cinema
http://ewz.stattkino.com/2009/galerie/

This has already been done in the UK, i did post an article about it. I wonder if it's the same group?

You're talking about Massive Attack's Meltdown festival at London's Royal Festival Hall, I believe. In which case, it is a different group.

We mustn't forget Italy's Memoria. In 2006, MEMORIA ~ Blade Runner: The Rock Project, performed an excellent showing with the movie. In 2007 I worked with the group, rewriting the lyrics. We are in the midst now of preparing to finally release this production on cd. More information will soon follow.

Hi Kipple
No, it was before this and it was by the coast. Must try to find the post.

and how has it bean ? I'm NOT a friend of the orchestral soundtrack as I've written above so how can live music in or decrease the movie experience?

By offering a new perspective of the movie. For example, the more you watch a movie...over time...you see things you haven't noticed before. This offers such an experience, if done properly.

I'll offer up some examples, specific to this film, in a couple days to help illustrate my point.

HI
I found my original post but actually the music was played prior to the film and not during.

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Although the date has passed and i missed it anyway, this sounds really good. A live performance of music in the Blade Runner theme and style to create a pre movie atmosphere.

THE fourth and final event combining live music and film at the Spa Suncourt tomorrow features Moonjuice at 7.30pm and the director's cut of Blade Runner at 9pm.

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk ... leid=30743

First, let's take a look at the following fan-created vids. They are scenes from BR with different music. It gives the movie a different "feel"...for better or for worse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ExHYg7f4HE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag7xaz9I5dE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTPTwlc2K7Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnfnjReO5o

As far as the production I am involved with, both the music and the lyrics were painstakingly created to fit the scene, or what a character may be feeling or thinking. I'm afraid I'm not expressing this to do it any justice. You'll have to wait a little while longer to get a taste of it yourself.

One song that I can give as an example is one called "Looking Through the Eyes of a Child". The scene is when Rachael comes back to Deckards' apartment, after shooting Leon. At this point we know there is an attraction between the two. We know Rachael has come to grips (on the most part...at least accepted the fact) with the fact that she is a Replicant. The first verse follows:

- - -

Every now and then it felt like there was something missing
Like a part of me never really existed
Always afraid that I’d find
Maybe I was losing my mind
Maybe I was being told lies
Has my innocence made me blind
Looking through these eyes...

Looking through the eyes of a child

- - -


Without hearing the music...they are just words. But, I hope it helps to illustrate that such expressions can offer a new/different perspective on a classic movie.


(Gosh...two videos I wanted to share were removed.)

Warner Bros. is being absolutely RETARDED about removing their material from YouTube. It seems the Japanese get it more than US media companies. Anime Music Videos? (AMVs) "Cool, free promo for our series" is how they look at them..

It's like, when The Final Cut was released, they should have done what Lionsgate did with the movie W and put up a "mashup machine" web 2.0 app, where people could take clips from The Final Cut and music from Warner/Elektra/Atlantic artists and make their own Blade Runner Music Video mashups. It would have not only promoted the video set but also WEA music artists. Two for one! Awesome, right?

Wrong. They'd rather keep playing whack-a-mole on YouTube. Dammit.

Here's another example of what could have been...this is a Radiohead song, from when they recorded with EMI. EMI has been out in front as far as backing down from DRM goes, perhaps they have a more progressive policy on this sort of thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20NPTeYcVkI

Oh yeah, it's off topic but here's one I actually did. Music is "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand, video is from the MTV Animation series Daria.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mttfleLrVeA

well it was the first time I saw Blade Runner on a big screen.

The music experience was extremly boring IMO. There was no emotional melodie or something else. Just monotone and dark strings. The Music in the love scene per example sound like a demolished tape...

they really messed the whole sound up... even the credits sound at the end was just a monotone scratching noise.

But there were also some positive parts. They were some scenes where new music came in an the filled the scene. Per Example in deckard appartment they played good sounds. In the 2nd part of the movie I didn't even realised sometimes that it was not the original sound. The sound made the movie even darker but then again no goosebumps etc

BTW: Can some ID this track that was played before the movie ? It must be a movie soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-j-G76ssSI