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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]
Mar 21, 2017 · The film’s uneasy atmosphere was built by director David Lynch and sound designer Alan Splet, who together combined low, rumbling bass frequencies, screeching industrial noise, and ghostly echoes of pop music’s past to create a sound world that had never been heard in cinema before.
Oct 4, 2024 · While working on the film, Lynch met Alan Splet, who would later accompany him in creating the sound for Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Blue Velvet. Moreover, The Grandmother convinced Tony Vellani and George Stevens (bigwigs at the American Film Institute) that both Lynch and Splet were talents worth bringing to the Dream Factory.
Sounds were created in a variety of ways—for a scene in which a bed slowly dissolves into a pool of liquid, Lynch and Splet inserted a microphone inside a plastic bottle, floated it in a bathtub, and recorded the sound of air blown through the bottle.
Nov 15, 2022 · The overall sound of Eraserhead is industrial, noisy, and claustrophobic. The sound design of Eraserhead was created by David Lynch and Alan Splet. Splet and Lynch sat down and listened through stock sound effects, however they decided to record the sound from scratch.
Sep 18, 2014 · Designed by Alan Splet and Lynch, the sound effects in Eraserhead consists of incessant mechanical hums, slithering puppy sounds, radiator hissing, vociferous alien baby cries, unseen...
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May 13, 2014 · But the Lynch-Splet sound track for Eraserhead is of another order. The electric hum; soughing wind; ceaseless, industrial roar; and the array of noises that issue from the baby (chokes, coughs, gasps, gurgles, spit-ups, and that steady, inconsolable cry) are the product of a mind wired to sixties art experiments rather than Hollywood movies.
