Superman

I was watching the 1979 film version of Superman recently, and for the first
time realised that part of The Tomita Planets is used as sound fx.

When Superman as a baby is placed into the spaceship by his father while
Krypton is disintegrating, the music playing as the spaceship ascends is
directly taken from the first album track Mars.

The section played starts at 2 minutes on the track and lasts about 50
seconds, roughly. Its the wonderful part where the growing rocket sound is
accompanied by a repeated beeping which gets faster and faster. It sounds
wonderful in stereo, as the beep in the stereo image sounds as if it is _in_
your right ear!

BTW can anyone tell me what Apocalypse Now Redux is, please.


Cheers
Paul Mundy

 

> BTW can anyone tell me what Apocalypse Now Redux is, please.

Francis Ford Coppola prepared a longer reissue of his 1979 film
"Appocalypse Now" for theatrical release this year . He restored many
minutes that were filmed but never got to a finished edit because the
film was running long and dangerously over budget in '79. The new edited
version involved composing new music for these scenes and incorporating
them back in the film. So its sort of a Director's cut.

Keyboard magazine interviewed Ed Goldfarb who did the new music which
attempted to match the style of the old score. The subject came up again
when Patrick Gleeson, the synthesist in charge of realizing the original
score wrote a letter in the current Keyboard magazine issue and took
exception with some of Goldfarb's assumptions, notably that the original
1979 team was trying to acheive a Tomita-like sound.

In any event, though I've not caught the new version, the added music
according to many shows a distinct Tomita influence, far stronger than
the original 1979 music.

nick