Stalker - Railroad Scene (sound design and music boundaries blur)

Beautifully crafted sound in the below scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker





Music composer Edward Artemyev gradually weaves electronic sounds and starts to process through delay and reverb, the mechanical sounds of the motions of the train, so that these sounds start to take on a musical rhythmic quality, not too dissimilar from Musique concrète compositions. This treatment of the sound is effective in conveying the passing of time and also of the anticipation and dread of the journey in to The Zone.

This sequence, is a really good example for me to study when creating the soundtrack for some shots in Broken Bottles, as I would like to try and keep the identity of the recordings that I make, but also inflect them with a sensitive amount of electronic processing in order to create an impression of subtle interference and manipulation.