Mike Cooper - TABU - Maria's Blues

This is a New Zealand tv promo for a performance of my live soundtrack for the FW Murnau/Robert Flaherty 1931 film Tabu - shot in Tahiti. The film was Murnau's last and won an academy award for cinematography for Floyd Crosby (David Crosby's father). This was the first film I ever did a live soundtrack for and I was commissioned to do it by the Brunswick Music Festival in Mebourne in 1994. My score features my acoustic lap steel guitar playing, making reference to Pacific island (Hawaiian, Fijian and Tahitian) musical themes and some live electronics. I try to make my scores for silent classics as modern or avant garde as the films were when they were first shown. For more details of the other films I perform live scores to see my web site - www.cooparia.org.uk

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• silent
• film
• live
• scores
• experimental
• electronics
• lap
• steel
• pacific
• hawaiian
• music

[bigalwhittle]

are you the Mike Cooper who used to play at The Shades Coffee bar in Reading with Derek Hall circa 1965?

[cooparia]

@bigalwhittle Ye I am that same person - were you there? Send me an e mail if you were - we can talk - cooparia@mac.com

[cooparia]

A TABU soundtrack exists now on Hipshot - also Aelita and Nanook Of The North - if your interested?

[eliomart]

Mike!

[bluenote335]

Top shelf!

[mikeattacks]

hugs

xx m.

[daddystovepipe]

Lovely!

[senorbamboo]

kupa!

you're on the news, moite!

bambu