Rip Bebe Barron, Forbidden Planet is silent Options

[lepetitmartien]

Bebe died on the 20th, aged 80. Bebe and Louis Barron did the first ever all electronic motion picture score for Forbidden Planet (dubbed by MGM "electronic tonalities") in 1956 with their vaccum tube gizmos.

Robby will need a drink or two tonight.

[lepetitmartien]

No Theremin were harmed while recording this score! ^^

It's 100% tube gizmos that Bebe and Louis Barron did themselves, plus tape slicing.

Note that a lot of the Theremin you can hear in most 60's-60's film music is not Theremin but a derivate borrowing to theremin and Ondes Martenot with a keyboard, which helped a lot to ensure the performance to be on tune. It seemed they didn't want to hire Clara Rockmore for exemple. I just don't remember the name of the device… maybe it's on theremin.com. The Beach boys used it too, and it was a session musician which did the thing and played it/sold some if I remember well.