"But now an artistic group from Austin, Texas, called Silents Synced and its director Josh Frank are offering a new approach to silent cinema: showing classics to music by established stars. This one, Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror puts Murnau's 1922 vampire classic Nosferatu with Radiohead's Kid A from 2000 and Amnesiac from 2001. But I just couldn't make friends with this fundamentally wrong-headed idea."
"Radiohead's music isn't composed for the film, it doesn't illuminate it or intensify it or work interestingly against it; it just blares away arbitrarily alongside it. It's just like trying to watch a movie while your next-door neighbour has their music on too loud. There are, possibly, interesting moments when an idea or image seems to chime or reverberate with the music; I worked very hard trying to isolate serendipitous touches like that."
Silent films originally played with live musical accompaniment ranging from improvised piano to full orchestras, and sometimes included live explainers. Revivals have experimented with new scores and orchestral reinventions, generating renewed creative interest. An Austin group, Silents Synced, pairs classic silent films with established pop albums, exemplified by Radiohead X Nosferatu, which pairs Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu with Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac. The preexisting album approach frequently overlays arbitrary music that neither illuminates nor intensifies the film, producing occasional serendipitous harmonies but mostly ignoring the films' intentional form and structure and creating an unrewarding experience. The event screened in UK and Irish cinemas on 2 October.
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