Bebe Barron

Nascimento : 1926-06-16, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Morte : 2008-04-20

História

Bebe Barron (June 16, 1926 – April 20, 2008) was an American pioneer in the field of electronic music. She is credited, along with her husband and creative partner Louis Barron, with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie Forbidden Planet.

Filmes

Sisters with Transistors
Self (archive footage)
Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
Self
A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.
OHM+ : The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948-1980
Herself
Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit's discussion of the difficulties of working with archaic synthesizers in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1950s and 60s is a firm reminder of just how foreign electronic sounds were to even the academic community only 40 years ago. Likewise, Paul Lansky's private lesson with theremin inventor Leon Theremin is an example of how non-user friendly electronic musical instruments could be, even to people who should have the best sense of how to approach them.
Space Boy
Music
Unofficial sequel to Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood (1966). Drums and orchestration are rumoured to be by Frank Zappa.
Carrossel de Pontes
Music
Após fazer diversos filmes sobre dança (sua primeira vocação), a cineasta nova-iorquina Shirley Clarke foi convidada para realizar uma série de curtas-metragens sobre o estilo de vida de seu país para o Pavilhão Americano da Feira Mundial de Bruxelas, em 1958. Carrossel de Pontes nasceu dos materiais descartados desse projeto, e, diferentemente do original - de natureza narrativa -, as imagens sobrepostas neste filme experimental exprimem a concretude dos objetos que retratam, as pontes que cruzam o rio Hudson em Nova York. A música envolve e suaviza a rigidez geométrica das construções de ferro e concreto, que contrastam com a fluidez do rio. Clarke fez duas versões do filme: uma com trilha sonora dos compositores pioneiros da música eletrônica Louis e Bebe Barron; outra, com trilha do compositor, produtor e saxofonista de jazz Teo Macero.
Planeta Proibido
Original Music Composer
Uma expedição liderada pelo Comandante John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) viaja rumo a um planeta distante para descobrir o que aconteceu com os cientistas que foram para lá iniciar uma colônia. Apenas um é encontrado: O arrogante Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), que vive em companhia da filha, Altaira (Anne Francis) e de um prestativo robô.
A Moment in Love
Music
A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.
Bullfight
Music
Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.
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.