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As a follow up to my last post on the origins of ambient music and cryptic homages left to Philip K. Dick, I thought I’d write a little something something on the theme of electronic music inspired by the fantastic in general. J. Horrible<\/a> had commented\/questioned on whether I had read Roger Zelazny which made me wonder whether she had known of any music inspired by the writer. And at that moment I noticed I was listening to Chronolyse<\/em> (1976) by Richard Pinhas, an electonic album inspired by Frank Herbert’s novel Dune<\/em> (1965). This album predated the David Lynch film so set aside premonitions of an Angelo Badalamenti score… for all I know this could have been the score for the unrealized<\/a> Alejandro Jadorowsky directed Dune<\/em> film.<\/p>\n

The album comes in three parts, really: “Sur Le Them De Bene Gesserit” (Parts I-VII), “Duncan Idaho,” and a thirty minute Fripp-ish multi-track guitar improv jam with drums and accompanying synth sounds entitled “Paul Atreides.”<\/p>\n

The connection between science-fiction and the evolution of electronic music is deep. Just consider the influence of Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti and Wendy Carlos’ scores for Stanley Kurbrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> (Arthur C. Clark) and A Clockwork Orange<\/em> (Anthony Burgess). I’m wondering now what the musical accompaniment may have been for Karel \u010capek’s play Rossum’s Universal Robots<\/a> (and its numerous adaptations).<\/p>\n

Please comment if you know of any other electronic music inspired by fantastic or fabulist literature.<\/p>\n

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Duncan Idaho’s Shield Suit upon being activated. From the film DUNE (1984)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to my last post on the origins of ambient music and cryptic homages left to Philip K. Dick, I thought I’d write a little something something on the theme of electronic music inspired by the fantastic in general. J. 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