Episode 4: Scorsese’s Soliloquy, Cinema is Dying, and Bruised by an Image

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You’re listening to Cinesthesia, produced live in the studio at Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in beautiful (Nogojiwanong) Peterborough, Ontario, every Thursday at 5 PM. It’s also a podcast on SoundProof, creative nonfiction for audio. I’m your producer and host, LA Alfonso. In this audio program, film theory meets film music.

Original Radio Broadcast: Feb. 8, 2024 • PLAYLIST Angelo Badalamenti / Twin Peaks Theme • Bernard Herrmann / A Night Piece for Saxophone & Orchestra (film: Taxi Driver) • Clip from Thomas Flight video (https://youtu.be/D3owqp72SJE?si=rLcaPucYVvsmeWfh) • LoboSono / Solo Sable (album: CINEMATIQUE vol 1) • LoboSono / eau (album: CINEMATIQUE vol 1) • LoboSono / Eau Duo (album: CINEMATIQUE vol 1) • LoboSono / Neige Flute (album: CINEMATIQUE vol 1) • Barzin / Starry Night (film: The Shadow of my Life) • Angelo Badalamenti / Laura Palmer’s Theme • Colin Stetson / Un Fin (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Fallen Friend (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Amongst the Ruin (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Smoke Rising (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Fever Dream (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Playing (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Innocence (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / In Hospital (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Healing (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Memories (film: La Peur) • Colin Stetson / Fading Campaign (film: La Peur) • Clip from Cinema Cartographer (https://youtu.be/fOSLfuW6yoU?si=YoRVjZvKZoH-eeOo) • Bernard Herrmann / Prelude, The Nightmare, Scene D’Amour (film: Vertigo) • Julee Cruise / Into the Night (album: Floating Into the Night)

For me, for the filmmakers, I came to love and respect. For my friends who started making movies around the same time I did, cinema was about aesthetic, emotional and spiritual revelation. It was about characters — the complexity of people and their contradictory and sometimes paradoxical natures, how they can hurt and love one another and suddenly come face to face with themselves. — from Scorsese’s Soliloquy

Read: Under_Score for more: https://laalfonso.substack.com

https://lobosono.bandcamp.com/album/cin-matique-vol-1

https://barzin.bandcamp.com/album/the-shadow-of-my-life-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/la-peur-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

Is Martin Scorsese Right About Cinema? by Thomas Flight
Why is Experimental Film (not) Cinema? by Cinema Cartographer

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