Re: [MMM] John Carpenter's Black Star

Hi Darren,

You must mean Dark Star? I think Carpenter is one of the few
filmmakers who routinely scores some, if not all, of his films'
soundtrack, and I believe that's all Carpenter on Dark Star, but I'm
not quite sure.

take care,

--Dan Stearns

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From: "McDougall, Darren Scott - MCDDS001"
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Subject: [MMM] John Carpenter's Black Star

> Hi all,
> I saw the cult classic 'Black Star' on TV recently. (It's a poor,
poor,
> poor-man's version of '2001'.) In one scene, one of the ship's crew
plays an
> instrument made of jars and tins. The sound-track is obviously a
syntheser
> simulating the instrument while the actor mimes, but the piece of
music is
> quite microtonal sounding and well composed. Does anybody know who
composed and
> performed it.
>
> DARREN McDOUGALL
>
> Additional music files from MMM are at
http://www.microtonal.org/music/
>
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>

Hello Darren!
I don't know but, in most cases, John Carpenter does his own music. I think
this is the only director who does. i like his stuff as it is alot of fun in the
context of his films which are always "B" movies. he knows how to keep a certain
tension and unpredictability despite it's downfalls.

"McDougall, Darren Scott - MCDDS001" wrote:

> Hi all,
> I saw the cult classic 'Black Star' on TV recently. (It's a poor, poor,
> poor-man's version of '2001'.) In one scene, one of the ship's crew plays an
> instrument made of jars and tins. The sound-track is obviously a syntheser
> simulating the instrument while the actor mimes, but the piece of music is
> quite microtonal sounding and well composed. Does anybody know who composed and
> performed it.
>
> DARREN McDOUGALL
>
> Additional music files from MMM are at http://www.microtonal.org/music/
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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The film is actually "Dark Star".

I, too, always wondered who did that scene.