clare nina norelli

composer/musician/writer/teacher melbourne, australia

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Laura Palmer’s Secret Mix Tape

https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/33andathird/playlist/5bKfhwuos9SFh6FqIZcyTp

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Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks by Clare Nina Norelli

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“Sidney wanted [his] score to ask if the entity was an inner manifestation of a mental problem that Carla had or if it was indeed menacing her from the outer, real world.” - Charles Bernstein, on his music for The Entity (1982)

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My own version of a beautiful Bob Dylan number I recorded a little while back....

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“Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks OST” by Clare Nina Norelli for 33 1/3.

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I am very excited to announce that I will be writing a book for the 33 1/3 series! It is a not only a great honour to be selected, but to also have the opportunity to write about the beautiful music of a personal hero of mine, Angelo Badalamenti!

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“Much can be discussed about the Taxi Driver score – it is musically dense and alludes to much that is unsaid in the narrative. It is unfortunate that Herrmann died just as he entered this second phase of his career, as he had been disillusioned for much of the ‘60s. With a string of films alongside Taxi Driver such as La mariée était en noir (The Bride Wore Black) (Truffaut, 1968), Sisters (De Palma, 1973, and It’s Alive (Cohen, 1974), and with more films planned to follow, the composer appeared to have found the relevance he had craved since his work in the classic era of Hollywood. But his musical legacy has endured and inspired subsequent composers, and as Scorsese wrote, “There was no one who could even come near him.”

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Vinyl release of “The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann”, 1974.

Check out https://lpcover.wordpress.com/ for a whole bunch of great film soundtrack record covers.

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Latest article is up on overtones/underscored. This week I take a look at the score for Lost Highway by my personal hero, Angelo Badalamenti!

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 Gene Moore’s creepy score adds much to the mysteriousness of [Carnival of Souls]. We are never quite sure if Mary is haunted by supernatural forces –  herself perhaps a zombie not long for this world –  or is simply a traumatised and deeply disturbed woman. Moore’s score plays to either of these conclusions, and Carnival of Soul’s power to haunt viewers is all the more strengthened by his memorable organ music

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Carnival of Souls (1962)

Director: Herk Harvey Year: 1962 Composer: Gene Moore Released in 1962, Carnival of Souls is a macabre independent horror film that was largely overlooked until the 1980s when late night televisi...

I’ve just started a new blog dedicated to film and television music. This week I take a look at the haunting organ score of Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls.

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Bernard Herrmann – Psycho (The Original Film Score)

Doxy Cinematic, 2015

**Actual Soundtrack recording from 1960, European Press

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A little idea I found hiding on my computer....

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You know his music from films such as “Psycho” and “Taxi Driver”. Now a new documentary, “Lives of Bernard Herrmann,” delves into the life and work of composer Bernard Herrmann.

Click the link to see an excerpt from our interview with Alec Baldwin and be a part of the film!

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I am super excited by this!

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Interesting fact: Psycho was almost never made, and it was only through Bernard Herrmann’s insistence and his amazing score that Alfred Hitchcock went ahead with the release of the film. 

Initially Hitchcock didn't want music in the Bates Motel scenes but Herrmann went ahead and wrote the famous ‘Murder’ cue anyway. Hitchcock was understandably impressed by Herrmann’s shrieking dissonant strings. “But Hitch,” Herrmann enquired, “I thought you didn't want any music during the shower sequence?” To which Hitchcock replied, no doubt in his typically droll style, “Improper suggestion, my boy, improper suggestion.”

The rest, as they say, is cinematic history!

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[Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)]’s memorable opening credit sequence with its close-ups of Kim Novak’s mouth and eyes and Saul Bass’ iconic spiral designs, is accompanied by [Bernard] Herrmann’s “Prelude” musical cue. “Prelude” functions as a microcosm of Scottie’s world in Vertigo in that it presents the themes that are central to Vertigo’s narrative. The cue opens with a rapid-paced ascending and descending figure that is repeated throughout and accented in such a way that it plays with the viewer/listener’s sense of musical expectation. At points in this figure the harmony is also jarring and in combination with its frantic movement, the overall effect is that one feels agitated and a sense of unease. The “Vertigo” figure is meant to function as the musical equivalent of a bout of Scottie’s vertigo and as Robin Wood, author of "Hitchcock’s Films", notes, it also mirrors Scottie’s ambivalent neurosis in that he has “both a fear of falling and a desire to fall.

Clare Nina Norelli, The Sound of Falling: Bernard Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo

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Camelia tells us stories and sometimes we listen

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Camelia tells us stories and sometimes we listen Improvational performance by Clare Nina Norelli in response to film by Claire Bushby Length: 8 mins 25 August 2013 For the Picture Book #3 dotdotdash Fundraiser Photographer: Emiko Watanabe dotdotdash