52 Spaces (Antonioni)

Commissioned by The British School at Rome for film director Michelangelo Antonioni's 90th birthday in 2002, 52 Spaces uses sounds and elements of The Eclipse (1962) to create a soundtrack of an image of a city suspended in time, anonymous and surreal.

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Music

Tags:

• 52
• spaces
• rome
• scanner
• robin
• rimbaud
• githead
• antonioni
• italy
• film
• cinema
• eclipse
• l'eclisse
• vitti
• monica
• art
• surreal
• city

[circumpspect]

if life would be as energic as this ...

[pisciaddio]

Ipnoticamente bello

[TarTwinkle]

fleshes out my Antonioni nicely. thanks

[alexjestaire]

"Hanging out in quiet desperation is the English way..." (Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon)

[antiguoautomata]

greatest approach to Antonioni´s spirit from the sound art, I saw it live in Monterrey México. Thanks Mr, Scanner

[yian11a]

Sir Robin! you are my sonic hero! i am going to Wroclaw on the 20th May to listen to you! i am also coming to the gig with the githead in june!

i am trying to find "Sound polaroids" to buy! any idea where can i find it? yiannis

[cunningfoxette]

that's really amazing

so beautiful

the sound is fantastic and video fits it perfectly

i am totally absorbed by passion of the talk and "calm despair" of the music...