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Veil Of Thorns Creates Nosferatu Soundtrack
Veil Of Thorns are set to return, and as an opening shot, they bring surprises, utilizing multimedia, unusual performances and deft handling of alternative digital distribution channels. Pre-release mixes from the forthcoming album, "Manifestation Ob jective" have already garnered airplay worldwide, through both online and radio broadcasts. As a bonus P. Emerson Williams has created a spontaneous gift to fans in the shape of a horror classic.
(PRWEB) April 27, 2006 -- Because he can leave no idle idea alone, P. Emerson Williams has created a soundtrack to "Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror", the silent masterpiece by F.W. Murnau. While this has been done before by various artists, none of the previous versions has deepened the dark psychological themes this soundtrack has. The net release has already spread like a virus across p2p networks and the burgeoning video podcast aggregators.
The approach was inspired by the Dogme 95 manifesto. Now, using so much technology probably makes it anathema to its adherents, but my mode of working is never pure, but, Harmony Korinne fanatic that P. Emerson is, he felt an affinity to the movement. The band setdown several limitations in doing this, such as a limit on the number of layers of sound they were to use, and a short time limit for the work. Therefore, their first rule was only to use sounds already had on the hard drive from the session for the upcoming album, "Manifestation Objective".
What will be heard is 90% vocals with much less processing than it sounds like.
Secondly,they gave themselves a timelimit of eight hours to create and sync the audio to the movie file. This has already been downloaded as a podcast by thousands of listeners as a podcast. The video has also been viewed by hundreds directly on the bands page on Myspace.com: http://www.myspace.com/veilofthorns
With the influence of producer and production designer, Albin Grau, "Nosferatu" established one of two main lines of vampire depiction in movies. The "Nosferatu-type" is a living corpse with rodent features (especially elongated fingernails and incisors), associated with rats and plague, and neither charming nor erotic but totally repugnant. The victims usually die and are not turned into vampires themselves. The more common other line is the "Dracula-type" (established by Bela Lugosi's version of Dracula and perpetuated by Christopher Lee), a charming aristocrat adept at seduction and turning his victims into new vampires.
Parts of the film allegedly showing Transylvania were filmed in Slovakia. Nosferatu's castle, for instance, is Orava Castle in northern Slovakia, and other locations are in the High Tatras and on the Váh River around Strečno Castle.
The shadow of the vampire is seen climbing stairs in this famous scene from the movieMurnau's Nosferatu is in the public domain, and copies of the movie are widely available on video—usually as poorly transferred, faded, scratched video copies that are often scorned by enthusiasts. However, pristine restored editions of the film have also been made available, and are also readily accessible to the public.
The Vampire theme may make the band goth at last.
Watch Nosferatu (high bitrate):
http://choronzon333.blip.tv/file/get/Choronzon333-Nosferatu1922VeilOfThornsSoundtrackHighSpeed462.wmv
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