Ain't
Nothing But a Little Bit Of Music For Moving Pictures
CD 1992
All
music composed by Tibor Szemző © Biem / Artisjus 1992
Played by the Fodderbasis Small Ensemble: László
Göőz – trombone(1,2,3) Recorded
by László Hortobágyi at Gayan Utteyak Mandal, Budapest,
Mixed
by László Hortobágyi and Tibor Szemző at
Artwork:
György Pálfi & Kozmo Produced
by György Durst and the BBS Foundation „When he came to Prague in the spring of 1992, Tibor brought with him the mastertape for this CD, and explained to me that this music was originally created to build a sonic image for films that were so special, thay would be impossible to watch without music. You could never tell where the diving line is between music and film, and at first, as the films couldn’t exist without music, the composer was very reluctant to put the music on record separately. Finally Tibor selected 10 sections out of 6 hours of music, from different pieces he made in collaboration with filmmaker Péter Forgács. In the 70’s Forgács started collecting and editing private movies from the whole era of home movie making, that is from 1920 to 1970. Black and white silent moving pictures reaching over generations; a father films his child from his birth, and later the film follow him changing into an old man. You see the whole local history behind these fates. From Tibor’s Hungarian point of view, in Péter Forgács Private Hungary film series, you can follow a typical miserable Central European history of 20th century. Behind the family pictures you see war, communism, and other very strange things which are happening daily. “Then you very clearly understand the deep determination of those people,” he says. For
me, Tibor in his soundtrack occasionally gets quite close to my idea
of the type of music you would take with you on a desert island; slow-moving
melodies that cannot deny the hidden fire; sad-sounding timbres that
don’t get tiresome or depressing; a strong combination of familiar structures
and freshness that comes through repetition. Actually the most coherent
example of this kind of desert island music was presented on Tibor’s
previous album, called (obviously with quite different intentions) Snapshot
from the Island (Leo Records, 1987). Also, Snapshots of all different kinds aybe human islands as seen in different musical and time perspectives. The original intention was: these pieces are not a film soundtrack – here the music is just a way of handling time.” Petr
Dorůžka
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