[Rumori] 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival

[Ed Special]

We just finished the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
http://www.aafilmfest.org/
It was my 33rd.
The Clear Leader Film project returned after a few years on hiatus (or 
hyenas).
In the lobby of The Michigan Theater during the week of the festival, 
the audience is invited to contribute their own art by way of colored 
markers onto a reel of clear leader film. (Film normally used on the 
ends of a reel of 16mm film to thread the projector).  700 feet instead 
of the usual 400 was donated this year and nearly all of it was 
enthusiastically filled up by the time it was shown last night. The 
projectionists cut the film in half and projected both halves 
side-by-side on the wide screen.
I had been composing soundtracks for them for 20 years.
Of course, never being able to view the film before it's shown, I try 
to compose something that is rich enough with material that it is 
likely to synchronize frequently with the stuff on the film (which is 
ALWAYS the same delightful sort of scribbling, stripy, wonderfully 
splotchy messy gibberish).

Hear it is (18 MB) 18:35 minutes (including the 15 sec ending)
http://stupid.sensoryresearch.net/mp3/2007_FFCL_Mix_18.35.mp3

(Track 1 is 10:20 and track 2, the ending was 15 seconds. This provided 
the option of jumping to the ending if the film was finished before the 
soundtrack finished.

Most of the spoken bits were extracted from vintage instructional films 
on proper maintenance of film projectors, thanks to Rick Prelinger's 
Internet Archive, the rest from The Tingler; Vernon, Florida and 
Donovan's Brain - Suspense Radio.
Much of the sound collage was taken from radio collage done live on 
WCBN-FM 88.3 many years ago.  Some of it includes Barry Bouwsma's work 
when we were partners in audio crime during the first six years of 
Special Ed (that's the name of my radio show, not where I went to 
school). Steev Hise did really cool radio there, as did Ken Freedman 
before WFMU!

Ed