Fifty years ago, in April 1956, Louis and Bebe Barron finished the first completely electronic score for a full-length feature film, achieving, for the first time, a soundtrack free from dependence on conventional musical instruments. MGM’s science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet, starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen was a fantastical deep space predecessor to Star Trek that unapologetically set the standard for spectacular sci-fi special effects and fixed the world in the unbreakable tractor beam of space age electronic sound.
The MAK Center in collaboration with the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) presented the 2006 sound. concerts at the Schindler House.
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
7-9pm
Saturday, July 29, 2006
7-9pm