Hi,
Nahhhhh ... it would sound like a lot of the early ECM stuff that folks are afraid to listen to, because it ain't rock'n'roll and ... you can't bend and stretch the instruments like that!
If you ever have a chance, check out how Xavier Koller won an Oscar in his film "Journey of Hope" ... by using Jan Garbarek's experimental stuff, along with Terje Rypdal's and other ECM folks ... and the effect and vision was magnificent, and there was only one film that I remember ever seeing that was weird and took th emusic "away" from it ... and made the whole thing weirder. "El Topo". Also check out the longer pieces in Egberto Gismonti's album "No Caipira" ... some stuff that I always thought belonged as the soundtrack for Doris Lessing's "Briefing for a Descent into Hell", or the soundtrack for Aleister Crowley's "Moonchild". That's how off the wall it is ... musically and listening wise!
Morricone's work is nice in those films, as it gives the feeling that it is a very lonely landscape, but then seeing a mostly deserted place around it, has a tendency to fog your image of it as well. Grab the soundtrack CD's or his jazz'y stuff and put it on after a joint ... the image is not there ... and his music is a bit more conventional in my book.
The only other director that KNEW how to use music in film, was Nicholas Roeg ... and when you see "Performance", or "The Man Who Fell To Earth" or "Don't Look Now", or "any of his early things, up to the film with Harvey Keitel as a detective, you will see someone that knows how to add music to a visual ... like a composer can rarely do to any visual!
Peter Gabriel was well aware of these things, and tried to do them, instead, with African and Eastern musicians and did really well on a soundtrack of a fairly good film that we don't like to talk about ... but the music, as used in that film, was a total waste, because Mr. Film Director is not a good story teller via anything else except his eyes!
But the best? ... we all remember! I bet you can still hum parts of Lara's Theme, and you don't even remember the composer's name. His son is famous with synths! Djam Karet's first 5 or 6 CD's are also extremely visual stuff ... that is less rock minded than it is visual minded. And hard to listen to for most folks ... because they are not afraid to continue!
Btw, my music collection, movies, and literature, has always been about all the different and "weird" stuff ... why? ... they have 20 times more visuals than someone telling me every detail ... your mind has the best movie! And music! And art! ... and some stuff that is way out there, often makes the best soundtrack ... because you and I do not know, or have any "experience" feeling and understanding that sound ... enough to not get scared of it! Now you know why the old synthesizer sounds were associated with "space" and things we didn't know!
post edited by Moshkiae - 2013/03/06 09:12:02