Harold Budd

Harold Budd

Birth : 1936-05-24, Los Angeles, California, USA

History

Harold Montgomory Budd is an American avant-garde composer and poet. He was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert. He has developed a style of playing piano he terms "soft pedal".

Profile

Harold Budd

Movies

White Bird in a Blizzard
Music
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Mysterious Skin
Original Music Composer
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Oceano Atlantis
Original Music Composer
In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there.
Denial
Original Music Composer
A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them.
Odyssey
Music
The film is a visual poem shot in the Anza-Borrego Desert. The work portrays the odyssey of a woman/goddess/mankind from birth into innocence, through growth into pride and sin, to death, and then a transcendental reunion to the One.
The Kumbha Mela: Same As It Ever Was
Music
This is a silent film, with a musical soundtrack, shot during a boat journey along the waterways of Kashmir that took him to the festival. Using the simplest equipment, a Super-8-camera with a special lens, and directing his attention at simple things--the rhythmic splashing of a heart-shaped oar, the sparkle of evening sun on still waters--Albert Falzon has captured the timeless slow motion of Northern India.