Albums that when you listen to them whilst walking along you feel like you're in your very own avant-garde film

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Skip Spence - Oar
Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt to His Father

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Koyaanisqatsi
Clockwork Orange

― avant gardner, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Tago Mago

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

zaireeka.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

DNTEL - The Dream of Evan and Chan, Superpitcher mix

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

woops that's not an album. Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony, Opus 9

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Miss Kitten's "Radio Caroline"

― Flash (cowboytrance), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

'Metal Machine Music.'
'Album Generic Flipper.'

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

XTC "Explode Together"

― billy, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That Residents song that goes gumchewchewchewgumgumgumchewgumchew

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

XTC - Apple Venus, Pt. 1, if the film is some kind of bizarre musical.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Reich, Music for Eighteen Musicians
Deerhoof, Apple O'

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Eric Dolphy - Gazzeloni. It'd have to be set in 1963.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Horse Tricks - Mark de gli Antoni

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha Ian! I'm curious to know whether or not you wear four sets of headphones to listen to Zaireeka when you're out walking.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That would certainly be amusing to see.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

anything from the syr series or just about any improv at all...

but i have a fond old memory of walking cross campus listening to "Hunky Dory" and looking out and thinking...my world is better than any of yours.

― b b, Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Angus MacLise - Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I like this idea, this happens all the time. Any drone, noise, or ambient stuff works well on the bus ride in the morning to create this effect.

Tim Hecker, Radio Amor
any Merzbow, too.

I was listening to Vision Creation Newsun while on a fast-speed bike ride, with lots of hills, it was pretty riveting. I would totally watch a film made from just a camera attached to bike handlebars, with VCN as the soundtrack.

― Mark Clemente, Friday, 16 November 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Walking around listening to Fennesz - Endless Summer on a really cold/rainy day (by LA standards) is a pretty awesome experience.

― Bus Driver Stu, Friday, 16 November 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

boris - absolutego

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Boris on the bus, yeah.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I was totally gonna add the note (especially on the bus)

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure about an Avante Garde film but everytime I listen to !!!'s self titled album I get sucked up into my own world.

I'd probably say that Slips and Tangles from John K. Samson gives me the feeling of being in my own film though. I feel it all ties together like a great soundtrack.

― esophagus, Saturday, 17 November 2007 06:46 (eighteen years ago)

i downloaded that "Los Angeles 2019" bootleg Bladerunner soundtrack recently & edited out all the overly musical bits - i walk about with it on my ipod & wonder if the people i pass are real or androids!

― zappi, Saturday, 17 November 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

I feel this way pretty much all the time I'm out with my discman. In fact, I've invested a decent deal of thought to this kind of distinctly cinematic form of perception that results in listening to music on headphones while walking.

Some favourites for this include - Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Any Bark Psychosis works too.

More ambient stuff, where it really sucks you in does this to great effect, especially if, like me, you like to look up/at buildings when you walk.

― mehlt, Saturday, 17 November 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

bark psychosis, disco inferno, ar kane

― Michael B, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

it really sucks you in does this to great effect, especially if, like me, you like to look up/at buildings when you walk.

YES!!!

― Mark Clemente, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

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