The Film in the Other Room
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Personal notes on the sounds of film, TV, & other media. Plus some audio history & culture in the mix. By Dr. Suzy Mangion, film sound PhD graduate & music maker.
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"The Shout": Trailer - Out on Blu-Ray
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THE SHOUT (Skolimowsky, 1978)
I never tire of this extraordinary film - electronic composer Anthony (John Hurt) encounters a sinister wanderer (Alan Bates) and follows the risk of his fascination with sound to hear a shout that supposedly kills people. It is in an elite of great films about sound.
I never tire of this extraordinary film - electronic composer Anthony (John Hurt) encounters a sinister wanderer (Alan Bates) and follows the risk of his fascination with sound to hear a shout that supposedly kills people. It is in an elite of great films about sound.
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tomorrow, 2-4pm, Manchester Central Library. FREE. Suzy Mangion as part of @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
tomorrow, 2-4pm, Manchester Central Library. FREE. Suzy Mangion as part of @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social
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Suzy Mangion has a new piece this weekend to celebrate Delia Derbyshire Day. All about randomness. @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social
📣 Commission trailer 2! As DD Day 2025 approaches, so does new art inspired by the heritage of Delia Derbyshire and DD Day Archives at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Look out for videos on 23 Nov & see this piece screened at MCR Central Library on Sat. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
Look out for videos on 23 Nov & see this piece screened at MCR Central Library on Sat. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Suzy Mangion has a new piece this weekend to celebrate Delia Derbyshire Day. All about randomness. @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social
Despite the name Film in the Other Room, I'm interested in more than just films. TV, videos, art.Anything that catches my attention audio-visually. More one for curios & history than a music-for-the-movies sort of mind. I have huge affection for the Near and Far aesthetic, and I know I'm not alone.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' Near And Far talks wind. When people talk about unsettling theme tunes they understandably reach for Picture Box first but that's because more of them haven't heard this Radiophonic Workshop set to maximum creepiness.
BBC SCHOOLS - NEAR AND FAR: When The Wind Blows (TX 2.2.83)
Mary Downing presents this long running primary school series, with it's creepy opening sequence! We learn all about the damage that strong winds can do to the land and to the people who live there. Recorded in Spring Term 1983. No continuity here, just a glimpse of the Dots Clock. From my own perso
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November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Despite the name Film in the Other Room, I'm interested in more than just films. TV, videos, art.Anything that catches my attention audio-visually. More one for curios & history than a music-for-the-movies sort of mind. I have huge affection for the Near and Far aesthetic, and I know I'm not alone.
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This episode of the Delia Derbyshire Day Podcast has Suzy Mangion and David Vorhaus (of White Noise fame) talking about all things Delia Derbyshire. @delia.bsky.social
Creativity - Delia Derbyshire's approaches
Podcast Episode · Delia Derbyshire Day podcast 2025 · 30/10/2025 · 25m
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November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This episode of the Delia Derbyshire Day Podcast has Suzy Mangion and David Vorhaus (of White Noise fame) talking about all things Delia Derbyshire. @delia.bsky.social
"We all had the same sinking feeling. John Williams, The Lord of the Rings, Hans Zimmer, more John Williams, Chariots of Fire, yet more John Williams. We’ve got Classic FM for that soft-soap stuff, thank you very much. Yet Sweet defied us all, combining a cineaste’s enthusiasm with academic depth."
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"We all had the same sinking feeling. John Williams, The Lord of the Rings, Hans Zimmer, more John Williams, Chariots of Fire, yet more John Williams. We’ve got Classic FM for that soft-soap stuff, thank you very much. Yet Sweet defied us all, combining a cineaste’s enthusiasm with academic depth."
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Just finished the second episode of this. If you loved Neil's BBC4 documentaries then you'll love these. Like those he takes songs apart to show you how they work and what they are doing. Fascinating to a music dope like me. It all happens alongside some very enjoyable chats with guests.
TODAY'S THE DAY, FOLKS!
Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
All About The Music Podcast
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October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just finished the second episode of this. If you loved Neil's BBC4 documentaries then you'll love these. Like those he takes songs apart to show you how they work and what they are doing. Fascinating to a music dope like me. It all happens alongside some very enjoyable chats with guests.
really sad to hear this. I have very low expectations for Edith Bowman taking the slot. Her taste & shows really don't sit well with mine. Much more in the dramatic "movie music" mode beloved by many but little loved by me.
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
really sad to hear this. I have very low expectations for Edith Bowman taking the slot. Her taste & shows really don't sit well with mine. Much more in the dramatic "movie music" mode beloved by many but little loved by me.
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The Man Ray show at the Metropolitan Museum is absolutely essential, and huge (the only show of exclusively his work I've ever seen?). He was decades ahead of his time in so many areas, especially his films, which experimental filmmakers were copping ideas from 40 years later, and still are today.
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Man Ray show at the Metropolitan Museum is absolutely essential, and huge (the only show of exclusively his work I've ever seen?). He was decades ahead of his time in so many areas, especially his films, which experimental filmmakers were copping ideas from 40 years later, and still are today.
Great new podcast [and I'll be in episode 2]
Each episode comes out every Thursday now until 20 November 🔗 deliaderbyshireday.com/our-first-po... makes possible thanks to Heritage Fund @johnrylands #electronicmusicpodcast #deliaderbyshire #deliaderbyshireday #womeninelectronicmusic #johnrylandslibrary #manchestermusicscene #musiceducation
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great new podcast [and I'll be in episode 2]
thrilling new release from @buriedtreasure.bsky.social - the OST of THE SHOUT, after all these years. I've contributed a short essay to the sleevenotes, as a professional film listener. Can't wait to set this on the turntable. Don't forget to put wax in your ears!
7 years on this one. There's been several challenges along the way but its finally come together. The cut is amazing. The sleeve notes are fascinating. Out December. Reviewers, commissioning editors, bloggers, etc. please get in touch.
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
thrilling new release from @buriedtreasure.bsky.social - the OST of THE SHOUT, after all these years. I've contributed a short essay to the sleevenotes, as a professional film listener. Can't wait to set this on the turntable. Don't forget to put wax in your ears!
pet hate (I have so many)... new 'official' trailers for re-released classics where some noggin decides to 'update' with a new, 'contemporary sounding' soundtrack, usually discarding the influential, important, and often bloody good or classic, original soundtrack that is so important.
LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD - Official Trailer - 55th Anniversary Edition
YouTube video by StudiocanalUK
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October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
pet hate (I have so many)... new 'official' trailers for re-released classics where some noggin decides to 'update' with a new, 'contemporary sounding' soundtrack, usually discarding the influential, important, and often bloody good or classic, original soundtrack that is so important.
on Bandcamp Friday it's nice to treat myself to a good soundtrack. Today it's Mark Jenkin's mesmerising drone score to his own film BAIT. One of the most interesting filmmakers working the UK for absolutely years, bold and creative and doing their own thing. @invadarecords.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
on Bandcamp Friday it's nice to treat myself to a good soundtrack. Today it's Mark Jenkin's mesmerising drone score to his own film BAIT. One of the most interesting filmmakers working the UK for absolutely years, bold and creative and doing their own thing. @invadarecords.bsky.social
I wonder, what is best way to view a film to benefits the filmmakers the most? I little understand the economics of how the money filters through and to whom, but have experience about how it works in the music industry. Cinema viewing? Pay per view stream? DVD?Or does it make any difference at all?
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wonder, what is best way to view a film to benefits the filmmakers the most? I little understand the economics of how the money filters through and to whom, but have experience about how it works in the music industry. Cinema viewing? Pay per view stream? DVD?Or does it make any difference at all?
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📣Artists announcement! Suzy Mangion & Andrea Pazos are our artists for DD Day 2025 Commission 2 (of 3) 🎥🎵
We are so looking forward to what Delia inspires this time! 🤓
With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
We are so looking forward to what Delia inspires this time! 🤓
With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
📣Artists announcement! Suzy Mangion & Andrea Pazos are our artists for DD Day 2025 Commission 2 (of 3) 🎥🎵
We are so looking forward to what Delia inspires this time! 🤓
With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
We are so looking forward to what Delia inspires this time! 🤓
With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Big - exciting - news - watch this space. So highly recommended.
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Big - exciting - news - watch this space. So highly recommended.
Electronic sounds were by Rupert Hine, including the shout itself. Like Odysseus braving the Sirens, Hurt puts wax in his ears to hear what he craves. The processed roar combines with imposing visuals - Bates’s physical weight, dead sheep rolling down, wind sweeping and Hurt’s visible shock. 📽️🎥
"The Shout": Clip - Out on Blu-Ray 15/09/2014
YouTube video by Network Distributing
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September 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Electronic sounds were by Rupert Hine, including the shout itself. Like Odysseus braving the Sirens, Hurt puts wax in his ears to hear what he craves. The processed roar combines with imposing visuals - Bates’s physical weight, dead sheep rolling down, wind sweeping and Hurt’s visible shock. 📽️🎥
But the most central music in THE SHOUT comes from Anthony’s musique concrète studio. This is one of the most truthful onscreen depictions of a composer’s studio I’ve seen. Part Radiophonic Workshop part holiday home, it’s a creative space of reel-to-reel, delays and reverbs, scribbled notes. 📽️
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The Shout (1978) - Sounds (Unintentional ASMR)
YouTube video by Peter Kien'in Dram Atölyesi
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September 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
But the most central music in THE SHOUT comes from Anthony’s musique concrète studio. This is one of the most truthful onscreen depictions of a composer’s studio I’ve seen. Part Radiophonic Workshop part holiday home, it’s a creative space of reel-to-reel, delays and reverbs, scribbled notes. 📽️
🎥
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Synthesiser music was composed by Tony Banks & Mike Rutherford, founding members of Genesis, but don’t let that put you off - it’s a suitably dreamlike, eerie score, carefully placed at key moments, and in line with film synth music of the period from the likes of Brian Eno or Tangerine Dream. 📽️
From The Undertow
YouTube video by Tony Banks - Topic
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September 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Synthesiser music was composed by Tony Banks & Mike Rutherford, founding members of Genesis, but don’t let that put you off - it’s a suitably dreamlike, eerie score, carefully placed at key moments, and in line with film synth music of the period from the likes of Brian Eno or Tangerine Dream. 📽️
Even before the horror-magic of the pivotal sounds (the shout, the scraping of bone, the close-up voice) we are in a pitch perfect audio world of heavy warmth, cricket, threatening thunder, woodpigeons, cows mooing, voices murmuring. Gorgeously rich voices - Alan Bates, Tim Curry, Robert Stephens.
September 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Even before the horror-magic of the pivotal sounds (the shout, the scraping of bone, the close-up voice) we are in a pitch perfect audio world of heavy warmth, cricket, threatening thunder, woodpigeons, cows mooing, voices murmuring. Gorgeously rich voices - Alan Bates, Tim Curry, Robert Stephens.
Resolutely dreamlike in tone and plot, it rewards the viewer with wonderful unresolved feelings. Sound is used & edited with utmost care from the uncanny opening sequence onwards, surely one of the most effective evocations of an onscreen nightmare. It’s UK sound team was second-to-none.
September 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Resolutely dreamlike in tone and plot, it rewards the viewer with wonderful unresolved feelings. Sound is used & edited with utmost care from the uncanny opening sequence onwards, surely one of the most effective evocations of an onscreen nightmare. It’s UK sound team was second-to-none.
THE SHOUT (Skolimowsky, 1978)
I never tire of this extraordinary film - electronic composer Anthony (John Hurt) encounters a sinister wanderer (Alan Bates) and follows the risk of his fascination with sound to hear a shout that supposedly kills people. It is in an elite of great films about sound.
I never tire of this extraordinary film - electronic composer Anthony (John Hurt) encounters a sinister wanderer (Alan Bates) and follows the risk of his fascination with sound to hear a shout that supposedly kills people. It is in an elite of great films about sound.
"The Shout": Trailer - Out on Blu-Ray
YouTube video by Network Distributing
youtu.be
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THE SHOUT (Skolimowsky, 1978)
I never tire of this extraordinary film - electronic composer Anthony (John Hurt) encounters a sinister wanderer (Alan Bates) and follows the risk of his fascination with sound to hear a shout that supposedly kills people. It is in an elite of great films about sound.
I never tire of this extraordinary film - electronic composer Anthony (John Hurt) encounters a sinister wanderer (Alan Bates) and follows the risk of his fascination with sound to hear a shout that supposedly kills people. It is in an elite of great films about sound.
Adored this Walter Murch episode. Wonderful. All the favs, even the sound of the Wheelers. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social 📽️ #filmsound #cinema #film #soundofcinema
BBC Sounds - Sound of Cinema - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Sound of Cinema on BBC Sounds.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Adored this Walter Murch episode. Wonderful. All the favs, even the sound of the Wheelers. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social 📽️ #filmsound #cinema #film #soundofcinema
I’ll be posting about the extraordinary work of Karel Zeman when I take a look-listen to THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Looks like I have finally got my daughter into Karel Zeman by sharing Inspiration (1949) with her. He was a complete genius. Thanks to @ani-obsessive.bsky.social for the...um... inspiration. youtu.be/D1qYulQxmws?...
Inspirace AKA Inspiration (1949) | Karel Zeman
YouTube video by Bahhumbug
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July 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’ll be posting about the extraordinary work of Karel Zeman when I take a look-listen to THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN
An episode of SOUND OF CINEMA that looks at my Mastermind specialist subject - and well made too by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Sound of Cinema - Surrealism on Satie-Day - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet explores surreal music for film including Entracte by Erik Satie.
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July 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
An episode of SOUND OF CINEMA that looks at my Mastermind specialist subject - and well made too by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Delighted to get this new book for my birthday… by the legendary Walter Murch, the ‘godfather of sound design’, and director of RETURN TO OZ! Great mix of studio specifics and general film thought. 📽️🎞️🎬 #filmsound #cinema #waltermurch
July 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Delighted to get this new book for my birthday… by the legendary Walter Murch, the ‘godfather of sound design’, and director of RETURN TO OZ! Great mix of studio specifics and general film thought. 📽️🎞️🎬 #filmsound #cinema #waltermurch