{"id":984,"date":"2008-04-27T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T22:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2008-04-27T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T22:41:36","slug":"bebe-barron-from-greenwich-village-to-the-forbidden-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Bebe Barron from Greenwich Village to the Forbidden Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/forbiddenplanet.jpg' title='forbiddenplanet.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/forbiddenplanet.jpg' alt='forbiddenplanet.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nBebe Barron, groundbreaking composer of &#8220;electronic tonalities&#8221; for the seminal scifi flick <em>Forbidden Planet<\/em> is listening to the music of the spheres, looking down on planet Earth as she surfs with the Silver Surfer, skimming on comet dust throughout the Galaxy. What a shame that she only scored this one feature. I guess when synthesizers were invented people could create weird sounds at the touch of a button or a keyboard, not by hours of intense work with vacuum tube circuits, tape heads, razor blades and primitive mixers. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"<a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bebe3-1.jpg' title='bebe3-1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bebe3-1.jpg' alt='bebe3-1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Bebe and Louis in The Village Studio<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/forbidden_planet_pr001.jpg' title='forbidden_planet_pr001.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/forbidden_planet_pr001.jpg' alt='forbidden_planet_pr001.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Soundtrack LP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But no one ever created those exact sounds that Bebe did, even with modern sophisticated equipment. Another lost art form. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/surfer.gif' title='surfer.gif'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/surfer.gif' alt='surfer.gif' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Come Fly With Me!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of Bebe and Louis&#8217; music.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZIuc1_Qg4A8&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZIuc1_Qg4A8&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bebe Barron, groundbreaking composer of &#8220;electronic tonalities&#8221; for the seminal scifi flick Forbidden Planet is listening to the music of the spheres, looking down on planet Earth as she surfs with the Silver Surfer, skimming on comet dust throughout the Galaxy. What a shame that she only scored this one feature. I guess when synthesizers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}