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Concretefx · Post by **Concretefx** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:43 am

Interesting website Sine Fiction at http://www.notype.com/sine/ .

Here people have created invented soundtracks for science fiction novels. They have done a dozen or so at the moment and have an interesting list of future projects . Also you can submit your own soundtrack there as well.

What science fiction novel would people do a soundtrack for ?

Cheers

Jon :COFX

autloc · Post by **autloc** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:50 am

Cool. Too bad Dhalgren is already taken

I guess I'd do Inter Ice Age 4 (Kobo Abe) or maybe The Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami).

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:52 am

Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky brothers)

Ubik (Phil Dick)

Tiger, Tiger, aka The Stars My Destination (ALfred Bester)

The Dispossessed (Ursula LeGuin)

kilroy · Post by **kilroy** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:30 pm

William Gibson's Neuromancer, without question. Some bloke is already taking it on though.

A synth programmer's best nightmare.

era_sand · Post by **era_sand** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:52 pm

maybe i could do the beats for whyterabbits ubik,
otherwise i`d choose "the three stigmata of palmer elditch" by the same philip dick.
especially the eldritch-universe after taking chew-z
would be nice to track for

era_sand

ubik: voellig ungefaehrilich bei vorschriftsmaessiger verwendung!

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:26 pm

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:59 pm

short: the man who loved electricity by fritz leiber.

who has a fantastic name.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:01 pm

Interesting tip off on this site, Jon. Some good music there.

I must admit I'm a little disappointed that so many of these works are so technocentric, running closely along the Forbidden Planet-Doctor Who-Clockwork Orange-Blade Runner linee. Except maybe the Nine Billion Names of God, but then it falls back on other cliches (how to express the thundering awe of God? why, a thundering orchestra of course!)

Still some great music, but I was hoping to be surprised by the interpretations of the novels.

Cheers,
Steve

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:18 pm

I was a little let down by some of these, but it's a great initiative all the same.

I'd be tempted to do Burroughs' 'Exterminator!' if I had the spare time.

SKrolll · Post by **SKrolll** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:31 pm

thanks for links this is very interesting
for me

SK

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shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:46 pm

Concretefx wrote:What science fiction novel would people do a soundtrack for ?

Forgot to answer your question. I'd be inclined to do something like The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch.

Some other choices:
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
Count Geiger's Blues by Michael Bishop

Cheers,
Steve

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:23 pm

Concretefx wrote:What science fiction novel would people do a soundtrack for ?

Eon.
Or Blood Music.

//checks
Not yet taken? Hmmm.

Groet, Erik

Sine Fiction - invented soundtracks for sf novel