Louis Barron

Birth : 1920-04-23, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Death : 1989-11-01

History

Louis Barron (April 23, 1920 – November 1, 1989) was an American pioneer in the field of electronic music. He is credited, along with his wife and creative partner Bebe Barron, with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie Forbidden Planet.

Movies

Space Boy
Space Boy
Music
Unofficial sequel to Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood (1966). Drums and orchestration are rumoured to be by Frank Zappa.
Bridges-Go-Round
Bridges-Go-Round
Music
New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version).
Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet
Original Music Composer
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
A Moment in Love
A Moment in Love
Music
A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.
Bullfight
Bullfight
Music
Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.
Bells of Atlantis
Bells of Atlantis
Music
A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House of Incest” and appears adrift in the undersea realm of Atlantis before ascending to dry land.