La Jetée [1962/2016] - Museum Edition

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Album Info

Release Date: 2018-06-01

Label: Ondes Positives Recordings

Museum Edition
Edition of 40

Includes:
• High-Quality C-57 audio cassette with full-face printing, in hand-labelled O-Card sleeve
• Cassette B-Side features '[6102\2691] eèteJ aL' - exclusive to tape editions
• Three 5" x 7" matte photo prints in light-proof bag, selected from images created by LARVA using a 'Print-Through' re-photographic technique.
• Information sheet printed on heavyweight architect paper
• Links to additional audio/visual content
• Housed in custom 'Photo Paper' box
• Hand-numbered edition of 40 copies

The second release from Ondes Positive’s in-house band LARVA.

Recorded live at Flatpack Film Festival [UK] in April 2016, LARVA's re-scoring of Chris Marker's experimental 1962 Science Fiction short sets out to re-frame the film from existential romance to abyssal fugue.

The soundtrack is scored, in part, for a new instrument, created specifically for this project: The Glass Chroma-Harp. Based on the Glass Armonica, a classical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th Century, the Chroma-Harp uses glass, water and analogue tape delay to create a unique multi-timbral sound which is in keeping with the film's disturbing fatalism.
The Chroma-Harp is intonated in a colour sequence rather than with scaled notes, and the player must use intuition and improvisation in their approach.

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