British electronic music pioneer Ernest Berk provides strange electronic tonalities for this rather disquieting depiction of rural England by film maker David Gladwell.
hi, so glad you like his stuff, I have an old vinyl from the seventies of which an extract can be heard on Ian Helliwells superb tone generation programme site: http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/tone-generation.html ernests is number 14 about 20 minutes in. Just out of interest I studied with ernest in the early seventies and at present create my own instruments and play them have a look at: https://vimeo.com/51516343 or my sound cloud stuff at: https://soundcloud.com/michael-fairfax I like your blog by the way, great stuff.
Nice find! Requiem for a Village is great too.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree! Great film.
ReplyDeletethis is brilliant, I am ernest berks grandson and have never seen or heard this before. thanks . michael
ReplyDeleteHi Michael, your grandfather's music is superb! Do you know of any other works he made like this?
ReplyDeletehi, so glad you like his stuff, I have an old vinyl from the seventies of which an extract can be heard on Ian Helliwells superb tone generation programme site: http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/tone-generation.html ernests is number 14 about 20 minutes in. Just out of interest I studied with ernest in the early seventies and at present create my own instruments and play them have a look at: https://vimeo.com/51516343 or my sound cloud stuff at: https://soundcloud.com/michael-fairfax I like your blog by the way, great stuff.
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