Stanley Kubrick’s cinema classic A Clockwork Orange did not only become famous for its intense imagery, but also for its sophisticated soundtrack by Wendy Carlos. Re-interpretating music by Beethoven, Rossini and Purcell on her Moog Synthesizer, Carlos succeeds in opening up a new aesthetical dimension to these well-known pieces.
At the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2016, Schallfeld initiated a project focused on the question how a transcription of this transcription could sound today, almost half a century after the film’s original release. In a broader sense, this encompassed also questions about the relation between tradition and (technical) innovation, repertoire works and new creations, between sound and the moving image.
The second iteration of “Remixing a Clockwork Orange” takes one further step into the film’s world: while maintaining the idea of a “remix”, we also zoom into the main thematic aspects of the film’s plot. The entanglement of guilt and redemption as a timeless phenomenon will be woven into a set of new pieces commisioned to five composers whose work is strongly connected to the idea of remix and visual arts: Jorge Sánchez-Chiong*, Zeno Baldi*, Lorenzo Romano* and Michelle Agnes Magalhaes*
