In this first of two episodes devoted to the music of the weird, Phil and JF discuss two works that have bowled them over: the second movement of Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, used to powerful effect in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and the opening music to Cronenberg's film Naked Lunch, composed by Howard Shore and featuring the inimitable stylings of Ornette Coleman. After teasing out the intrinsic weirdness of music in general, the dialogue soars over a strange country rife with shadows, mad geniuses, and skittering insects. And to top it all off, Phil breaks out the grand piano.
Header image by Bandan, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Danby_Insect.jpg)
REFERENCES
Ligeti, [Musica Ricercata, 2nd movement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDN3EkWN8)_
Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman, opening music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liYqmdkS1hw) for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
Schopenhauer, [The World as Will and Representation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheWorldasWillandRepresentation)_
Suzanne Langer, [Philosophy in a New Key](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhilosophyinaNewKey)
Henri Bergson, [Creative Evolution](https://archive.org/stream/creativeevolutio00berguoft/creativeevolutio00berguoftdjvu.txt)_
Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/)
Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/first/en122/lecturelist-2015-16-2/shklovsky.pdf)
Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/)
Hitchcock, Psycho (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/)
Vulture, "The Evolution of the Movie Trailer" (http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/the-evolution-of-the-movie-trailer.html) by Granger Willson
Official Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b726feAhdU) for The Shiningvs teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFXGrTng0gQ) for 2012
Jan Harlan (director), Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278736/)
David Cronenberg, Crash (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/)
William S. Burroughs, [Naked Lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NakedLunch)_
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, [A Thousand Plateaus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AThousandPlateaus)
Gunther Schuller's interview (https://ethaniverson.com/interview-with-gunther-schuller-part-1/) with Ethan Iverson
Weird Studies, Episode 25: David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (https://www.weirdstudies.com/25)
Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus)