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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MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 9/9 #filmsound 📽️Watery laundry sounds become music to the ears, a waltz whirls with the washing, and for a moment or two everything shimmers in a twin-tub electric ballroom.
The soundtrack to one of my favourite films, The Shout. Finally released 47 years later on Buried Treasure. Includes fetching Alan Bates badge, which I shall sport for the winter season. Plus an essay in the sleeve notes, what I wrote myself. #theshout #soundtracks #filmsound #electronicmusic
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The soundtrack to one of my favourite films, The Shout. Finally released 47 years later on Buried Treasure. Includes fetching Alan Bates badge, which I shall sport for the winter season. Plus an essay in the sleeve notes, what I wrote myself. #theshout #soundtracks #filmsound #electronicmusic
yes, this is what I suggest in my sleevenotes to The Shout, ost, available to order from Friday on Buried Treasure. Nothing to do with Lulu.
Alan Bates, Susannah York, Tim Curry & John Hurt in The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978). One of the great films about sound?
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
yes, this is what I suggest in my sleevenotes to The Shout, ost, available to order from Friday on Buried Treasure. Nothing to do with Lulu.
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Rupert Hine's visceral sound design still makes you shudder
www.bfi.org.uk/features/40-...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/40-...
40 years on, is The Shout the scariest sound in film?
An unquiet place... 40 years ago, blood curdled across the land as Jerzy Skolimowski unleashed the sonic terror of his visionary British horror oddity The Shout. Here’s why it’s still ringing in our e...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Rupert Hine's visceral sound design still makes you shudder
www.bfi.org.uk/features/40-...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/40-...
It's coming... includes a short essay by yours truly in the sleevenotes. Be careful what you wish for.
Rupert Hine : The Shout
original soundtrack LP / CD / DL
preordering this Friday
out 5/12/25
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original soundtrack LP / CD / DL
preordering this Friday
out 5/12/25
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/music
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's coming... includes a short essay by yours truly in the sleevenotes. Be careful what you wish for.
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Anyone in Cumbria area, Suzy Mangion will be at Full of Noises on Saturday night, screening/playing The Music of Uncertain Lives and having a talk with the audience too.
Next stop Barrow-in-Furness! We are taking our new creative commissions inspired by heritage on tour, to @fullofnoises.bsky.social. Come see us if you're in the area!
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Anyone in Cumbria area, Suzy Mangion will be at Full of Noises on Saturday night, screening/playing The Music of Uncertain Lives and having a talk with the audience too.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 9/9 #filmsound 📽️Watery laundry sounds become music to the ears, a waltz whirls with the washing, and for a moment or two everything shimmers in a twin-tub electric ballroom.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 9/9 #filmsound 📽️Watery laundry sounds become music to the ears, a waltz whirls with the washing, and for a moment or two everything shimmers in a twin-tub electric ballroom.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 8/9 #filmsound 📽️It’s all idealised and precarious. The piped-music is part of an entrepreneurial fantasy, one that primps the winter-grey suburban streets, the grim realities of racism, of inequality, lost opportunity and unhappy families.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 8/9 #filmsound 📽️It’s all idealised and precarious. The piped-music is part of an entrepreneurial fantasy, one that primps the winter-grey suburban streets, the grim realities of racism, of inequality, lost opportunity and unhappy families.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 7/9 📽️But it’s a fragile fantasy, built on mirrors and tricks. Jaffrey’s Thatcherite Pakistani businessman publicly dances with his fur-coated white mistress, unaware his nephew Omar is screwing ex-National Front Johnny (Day-Lewis) in the back room behind a one-way mirror.
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 7/9 📽️But it’s a fragile fantasy, built on mirrors and tricks. Jaffrey’s Thatcherite Pakistani businessman publicly dances with his fur-coated white mistress, unaware his nephew Omar is screwing ex-National Front Johnny (Day-Lewis) in the back room behind a one-way mirror.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 6/9 #filmsound 📽️At the grand opening, music drifts out from speakers into the now mirrored, muralled and neon-signed laundrette, transfigured into an improbable ballroom where Saeed Jaffrey and Shirley Anne Field dance to the synthified muzak of Waldteufel’s Skater’s Waltz.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 6/9 #filmsound 📽️At the grand opening, music drifts out from speakers into the now mirrored, muralled and neon-signed laundrette, transfigured into an improbable ballroom where Saeed Jaffrey and Shirley Anne Field dance to the synthified muzak of Waldteufel’s Skater’s Waltz.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 5/9 📽️ This transformation of washing machine music mirrors the film's dreams, and ironies. It focuses on Omar’s transformation of a rundown laundrette into ‘Powders’ - a palace of dreams, of neon fantasies, built on immigrant determination in Thatcher’s Britain.
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 5/9 📽️ This transformation of washing machine music mirrors the film's dreams, and ironies. It focuses on Omar’s transformation of a rundown laundrette into ‘Powders’ - a palace of dreams, of neon fantasies, built on immigrant determination in Thatcher’s Britain.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 4/9 #filmsound 📽️
It is transformative music, taking everyday sounds and turning them into a score, using some of the alchemy more commonly associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop style.
It is transformative music, taking everyday sounds and turning them into a score, using some of the alchemy more commonly associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop style.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 4/9 #filmsound 📽️
It is transformative music, taking everyday sounds and turning them into a score, using some of the alchemy more commonly associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop style.
It is transformative music, taking everyday sounds and turning them into a score, using some of the alchemy more commonly associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop style.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 3/9 This memorable motif uses bubble noises, synths & sounds to create a general impression of washing machines that don’t actually sound like real washing machines, or even sound library recordings of them. They are a musical, dream version of washing machines. #filmsound 📽️
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 3/9 This memorable motif uses bubble noises, synths & sounds to create a general impression of washing machines that don’t actually sound like real washing machines, or even sound library recordings of them. They are a musical, dream version of washing machines. #filmsound 📽️
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 2/9 I think of this motif as the film’s ‘theme’ tune. The score was composed & produced by the team of Stanley Myers & a young Hans Zimmer, under the pseudonym Ludus Tonalis. The actual full ‘theme’ version, of which this snippet is only a part, isn’t too interesting.
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 2/9 I think of this motif as the film’s ‘theme’ tune. The score was composed & produced by the team of Stanley Myers & a young Hans Zimmer, under the pseudonym Ludus Tonalis. The actual full ‘theme’ version, of which this snippet is only a part, isn’t too interesting.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Frears, 1985) An unusual film from the heyday of Film on Four, immersed in realism, that uses certain elements to escape those trappings. The bubble & electric whirl, swish swoosh of washing machines comprises an important musical motif. 1/9 #filmsound 📽️
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Frears, 1985) An unusual film from the heyday of Film on Four, immersed in realism, that uses certain elements to escape those trappings. The bubble & electric whirl, swish swoosh of washing machines comprises an important musical motif. 1/9 #filmsound 📽️
Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! On this day Dr. Who was broadcast on the BBC for the first time, and a theme like no other was first transmitted into homes and hearts, written by Ron Grainer, but transformed (arranged doesn't really cut it) but Derbyshire at the Radiophonic Workshop.
Suzy Mangion's Music of Uncertain Lives (video on the top right), with visuals by Andrea Pazos. Created for Delia Derbyshire Day 2025. A dreamlike exploration of randomness, numbers, telepathy, and anxiety. Headphones recommended.
🔊📽️ NEW ART 📽️🔊 Creative responses to heritage by 6 Northwest England based artists. Gratefully supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
Check them out via our DD Day 2025 webpage: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-... think @turningcircle.bsky.social artist Suzy Mangion is the only one on here.
Check them out via our DD Day 2025 webpage: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-... think @turningcircle.bsky.social artist Suzy Mangion is the only one on here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! On this day Dr. Who was broadcast on the BBC for the first time, and a theme like no other was first transmitted into homes and hearts, written by Ron Grainer, but transformed (arranged doesn't really cut it) but Derbyshire at the Radiophonic Workshop.
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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
www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
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!