Watch This: Angelo Badalamenti Explains How He Works with David Lynch
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Trailers and Clips
When a score pops up in a film, it's there to move you -- to do what just a scene in silence cannot, whether it's the utter doom of Kronos in Requiem for a Dream, the strength of Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra, or the quirk of teenage suicide in Heathers. Although a very close second could be given to Requiem, no score or mood-enhancing music has ever affected me more than the work created between David Lynch and the incomparable Angelo Badalamenti.
Twin Peaks fans will recognize the video below -- it's part of a TP DVD special feature, where Badalamenti discusses how the pair make music together. Specifically, he describes how a simple conversation brought the Twin Peaks theme, with no sprucing, or editing -- just a conversation and some instinctual notes tapped on a keyboard.
Frankly, it baffles my mind that something so haunting came so simply, but I think that's a good, or maybe Real Indication of both of the men's talents. And speaking of "A Real Indication," you can check out a brief blip of the one Lynch/Badalmenti gig that allowed Angelo to sing after the jump, straight from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
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4-22-2009 @ 12:34PM
Alec said...
Badalamenti is brilliant. Especially his work with Julee Cruise. I haven't watched "Twin Peaks" in a long time, but that score is still the secret soundtrack to my inner life...
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4-22-2009 @ 1:32PM
Monika said...
I hope then, that you've seen Industrial Symphony! If not, it was a live performance of songs from Twin Peaks, but with a new, and equally strange storyline performed on-stage.
4-22-2009 @ 6:56PM
Alec said...
Yes, "Industrial Symphony" is great.
My favorite part of the special features on the "Twin Peaks" box set, for what it's worth, is hearing Julee Cruise's actual speaking voice, which is gravelly and tough. It's very disconcerting...