Vision and Sound Combined

My last post focused of video game music so I thought I would take a moment to talk about film soundtracks and our collection.

Music and film have always shared a close relationship. While the on-screen action and dialogue provide crucial information on the content of a film, accompanying music can set the tone of a scene and in certain cases provide a narrative without a single spoken word.
In the silent film era movie theaters would hire piano players to help provide audiences with auditory clues about the action on-screen. It seems only natural that the first full length film that was produced with sound was the Jazz Singer, a film about a talented Jazz musician whose ambitions are in conflict with his upbringing.

Nick Cave and the Sad Soundtracks

When I saw the first half of the last Harry Potter movie, I was delighted to recognize a classic song from one of my favorite artists: Nick Cave. So it got me to thinking, what other soundtracks or scores have his songs been on? Turns out, the library has a few! The Road was a bleak favorite. Follow the break for more info.