Man with a Movie Camera (Biosphere album)
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Man with a Movie Camera is an ambient
soundtrack by Biosphere
for Dziga Vertov
's 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera
, commissioned by the Tromsø International Film Festival in 1996. This soundtrack was released later in 2001 as a bonus disc of Substrata 2
with two bonus tracks ("The Eye of the Cyclone" and "Endurium") from the Japanese version of Substrata
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Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
soundtrack by Biosphere
Biosphere (musician)
Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen , a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his "ambient techno" and "arctic ambient" styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty...
for Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
David Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...
's 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera , sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta...
, commissioned by the Tromsø International Film Festival in 1996. This soundtrack was released later in 2001 as a bonus disc of Substrata 2
Substrata 2
Substrata 2, also written as Substrata², is a double album by ambient musician Biosphere which was released on 6 June 2001.The first disc is a remastered version of Substrata, and the second disc is a soundtrack for Dziga Vertov's 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera, commissioned by the Tromsø...
with two bonus tracks ("The Eye of the Cyclone" and "Endurium") from the Japanese version of Substrata
Substrata (album)
Substrata is an ambient music album by Biosphere, released in 1997 by All Saints Records. It is considered to be a classic ambient album, consistently in the top 5 in surveys on the Hyperreal ambient mailing list....
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The original soundtrack
- "Prologue" – 0:19
- "The Silent Orchestra" – 7:52
- "City Wakes Up" – 5:58
- "Freeze-Frames" – 6:46
- "Manicure" – 4:43
- "The Club" – 1:57
- "Ballerina" – 7:50
As Substrata² bonus disc
- "Prologue" – 0:19
- "The Silent Orchestra" – 7:52
- "City Wakes Up" – 5:58
- "Freeze-Frames" – 6:46
- "Manicure" – 4:43
- "The Club" – 1:57
- "Ballerina" – 7:50
- "The Eye of the Cyclone" – 7:22
- "Endurium" – 10:47