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Mar 21, 2017 · THE SOUND OF HEAVY INDUSTRY. Eraserhead’s foreboding mood was inspired by Philadelphia’s post-industrial history.Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1960s, and was equally fascinated and repulsed by its decaying architecture and abandoned warehouses, describing the city as both “a very sick, twisted, violent, fear ...
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The original soundtrack for Eraserhead was released via I.R.S. Records on LP in the United States on June 15, 1982, with 5 tracks. Side A consists of three songs written by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Side B consists of "In Heaven", the song performed by Laurel Near's character the Lady in the Radiator in the original film.
Lynch and Splet worked "9 hours a day for 63 days" to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack. [11]
Feb 8, 2024 · Sound has always been an intricate part in Lynch’s artistry, whether it is the haunting uneasiness of the film scores (often provided brilliantly by composer Angelo Badalementi), the tongue-in-cheek nostalgic oldies of his soundtracks (Bobby Vinton’s Blue Velvet to name just one), or the unsettling sound effects that perfectly compliment the just as unsettling images. It turns the act of ...
May 2, 2024 · When compared to soundtracks from Lynch’s other films, one might initially believe that in Eraserhead, music doesn’t play a significant role. However, it’s precisely through its use of noise, undeveloped melodies, and musical phrases—that begin and never conclude—that the music of Eraserhead assumes a crucial role. It perfectly ...
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Feb 24, 2023 · Sound Effects as Music: The sound design in Eraserhead blurs the line between music and sound effects. Many of the audio elements in the film, such as the sound of a baby crying or the whirring of ...
