1977
Machines · Bodies · Sound becoming music
Eraserhead
Directed by David Lynch
Industrial hum, wind and bodily noise never release their pressure; the world sounds less like a location than a machine dreaming a human life.
Way of listening
Machines.
When does technology become character, rhythm or threat?
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2007
Silence · Space · Machines
No Country for Old Men
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
With almost no conventional score, engines, boots, weapons and room tone measure pursuit in exact distances.
2008
Voices · Machines · Music becoming sound
WALL-E
Directed by Andrew Stanton
A machine with few words becomes emotionally legible through motors, gestures and designed vocal fragments.
1968
Silence · Machines · Music becoming sound
2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Breathing, machinery, classical music and the silence of vacuum make human life feel fragile inside systems of immense technological and cosmic scale.
1977
Machines · Voices · Space
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Directed by George Lucas
Organic recordings give impossible machines, weapons and creatures an instantly legible physical life; an invented galaxy sounds used, inhabited and real.
1982
Cities · Machines · Voices
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott
Rain, multilingual crowds, industrial distance and Vangelis's electronics merge into a city whose weather, technology and memory cannot be separated.