"A Clockwork Orange (film) A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain. Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (including Beethoven), committing rape, and what is termed ""ultra-violence"". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls"
"A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) The soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange was released to accompany the 1971 film of the same name. The music is a thematic extension of Alex's (and the viewer's) psychological conditioning. The soundtrack of ""A Clockwork Orange"" comprises classical music and electronic synthetic music composed by Wendy Carlos. Some of the music is heard only as excerpts, e.g. Edward Elgar's ""Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"" (a.k.a. ""Land of Hope and Glory"") heralding a politician's appearance at the prison. The main theme is an electronic transcription of Henry Purcell's ""Music for the Funeral of Queen"
"A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score, first released in 1972 as Walter Carlos' Clockwork Orange, is an electronic music album by Wendy Carlos featuring songs composed for the 1971 film ""A Clockwork Orange"". Although Carlos worked closely with director Stanley Kubrick during production of the movie, much of her work was not used, or used only in abridged form. The official soundtrack album also omitted much of Carlos' work. Under the original title ""Walter Carlos' Clockwork Orange"" (Carlos transitioned to female at about the same time) the album included full-length"
"composition, among other things attempting a fictional representation of Symphony No.40. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 features prominently in ""A Clockwork Orange"" (and in Stanley Kubrick's film version of the novel). Many of his unpublished compositions are listed in ""This Man and Music"". He wrote a good deal of music for recorder as his son played the instrument. Several of his pieces for recorder and piano including the Sonata No. 1, Sonatina and ""Tre Pezzetti"" have been included on a major CD release from recorder player John Turner and pianist Harvey Davies; the double album also includes related music from 15"
"Clockwork Orange"". Additional music not used in the film was released in 1972 as ""Wendy Carlos's Clockwork Orange"". Kubrick later collaborated with Carlos on ""The Shining"" (1980). The opening of the film—in which the camera follows Jack Torrance's yellow VW beetle through the mountains to the Overlook Hotel—employs Carlos' eerie rendering of ""Dies Irae"" (Day of Wrath) from Hector Berlioz's ""Symphonie Fantastique"". Kubrick married his high-school sweetheart Toba Metz, a keen caricaturist, on May 29, 1948, when he was nineteen years of age. They had attended Taft High School together and had lived in the same apartment block on Shakespeare"
"The music, including ""The Devil Is In The Beats"" and ""The Devil Is In The Details"", underscores the movie's style, recalling Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" with musical motifs consistent with Wright's ""fairy tale theme"" of childhood innocence confronting the modern ""synthetic"" world. Several reviewers have commented that the movie has a hyper-stylized Kubrickian tone, reminiscent of ""A Clockwork Orange"". The ""Kubrick-esque"" style includes Isaacs' ""gleeful sadism... at times darkly comedic,"" a whistling villain reminiscent of Alex DeLarge. Joe Wright's ""love of fairy tales and David Lynch movies"" was seen as blending ""A Clockwork Orange"" and the work of the"
"Hogue set Tucker's poems to music. After meeting Eigen at a party they wrote songs together. On Freya's initiative, and since they thought they had composed enough to perform on stage, the three musicians decided to travel to Europe. In 1969, they moved in London, to take part in the music scene. They took the name ""Sunforest"". Soon after, they met Vic Coppersmith-Heaven (Vic Smith), a representative of Decca Records. That night they recorded a demo, and two weeks later, Smith became their manager. Stanley Kubrick wanted to include two pieces in the soundtrack to ""A Clockwork Orange"". He asked"
"""A Clockwork Orange"". It is played in the scene that follows Alex's exposure to the Ludovico Technique, when he gets assaulted in public to demonstrate his lack of a violent reaction. The piece is written in a Renaissance-like style, and its elegance constitutes a counterpoint to the violence of the scene. Later in the film, when Alex comes back home to his parents, ""Lighthouse Keeper"" is played. This song, which is cheerful and cute but frivolous compared to the compositions of Beethoven that Alex listens to, emphasizes the lack of taste of his parents. Still in the 70's, we can"
"soundtracks to many films, including ""A Clockwork Orange"" and ""The Shining"". The music, which was the first collaboration between Carlos and her partner Annemarie Franklin, featured a mix of an analog Moog synthesizer and Crumar's GDS digital synthesizer (complex additive and phase modulation synthesis), along with non-electronic pieces performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (hired at the insistence of Disney, which was concerned that Carlos might not be able to complete her score on time). Two additional musical tracks (""1990's Theme"" and ""Only Solutions"") were provided by the American band Journey after British band Supertramp pulled out of the project."
"by John Sturges, and ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) by Stanley Kubrick. When the directors of ""Marooned"" changed their minds about including a soundtrack, Carlos chose to work with Kubrick, as she and Elkind were fans of his previous films, adding: ""We finally wound up talking with someone who had a close connection to Stanley Kubrick's lawyer. We suddenly got an invitation to fly to London."" Before Carlos knew about the offer, she read the book and began writing a piece based on it named ""Timesteps"". A soundtrack containing only the film cuts of the score was released as ""Stanley Kubrick's"
"Stanley Kubrick's film ""A Clockwork Orange"", which arguably is the reference of the track title). Their releases ""Positron"" and ""Hypermetrical"" became also well known hits of the genre. Several years later, ""The Orange Theme"" and ""Superstring"" were given new remixes and became chart hits. The Bervoets & De Goeij remix of ""The Orange Theme"" charted at #43 in the UK Singles Chart in March 2000, followed by the Rank 1 remix of ""Superstring"" charting at #33 in August 2001. Cygnus X (music group) Cygnus X was a trance music project from Germany named after the famous X-ray binary star Cygnus"
"novel ""A Clockwork Orange"". The song also includes a reference to the ""Chestnut Tree"", a bar in the final part of the dystopian novel ""1984"" by George Orwell. This is partly used because the ""Chestnut Tree"" is a place in the novel where the protagonist goes to find he no longer feels emotions for his love, and this song's lyrics have obvious references to love, hence the title. ""Rolling Stone"" calls ""Girl Loves Me"" their favorite moment from ""★"", labeling it as ""dark, trippy and sexy in ways only the late, great icon could pull off."" ""NME"" labels the song"
"Clockwork Orange"" in 1972, combining synthesized and classical music by Henry Purcell, Beethoven and Gioacchino Rossini with an early use of a vocoder. The album peaked the ""Billboard"" 200 chart at No. 146. Later that year, Carlos released an album of music not included in the final score titled ""Walter Carlos' Clockwork Orange"". Carlos later described the project as ""a lot of fun ... a pleasurable venture"". Carlos experimented with ambient music on her third studio album ""Sonic Seasonings"", released as a double album in 1972, with one long track dedicated to each of the four seasons. Recorded as early"
"Sunforest (band) Sunforest was an English psychedelic folk music trio. It was formed in 1968 by Terry Tucker, Erika Eigen and Freya Hogue. They recorded only one album, ""Sound of Sunforest"" on Decca Records. They are best known for their instrumental musical piece ""Overture to the Sun"" and their song ""Lighthouse Keeper"", which were featured on the soundtrack to ""A Clockwork Orange"". Little is known about the trio but the liner notes of their album and the personal website of Terry Tucker provide some information. Sunforest began in Washington DC, in the late 1960s. Tucker and Hogue knew each other."
"Award in 1989. The main theme from the finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony (commonly known as ""Ode to Joy"") is featured prominently in Michael Kamen's score throughout the film, in many guises and variations (mostly as a leitmotif for Gruber and the terrorists), and thematic variations on ""Singin' in the Rain"" are also featured, as the theme for the character Theo. McTiernan said that he incorporated those themes into the film's soundtrack as an homage to Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" (which featured both pieces of music). Basing his score around thematic variations on well-known pieces is a concept that"
"Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (""A little bit of horrorshow"") (subtitled: Die Lieder aus Clockwork Orange und andere schmutzige Melodien [""The songs from Clockwork Orange and other dirty melodies""]) is the sixth LP by Die Toten Hosen, released in 1988. This is considered by the band as the best DTH album as of 1988. The LP is mainly a concept album based on the film ""A Clockwork Orange"" by Stanley Kubrick, which in turn is based on the book of the same name by Anthony Burgess, although not all of the songs are about the main theme."
"Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a highly controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and ""Earthly Powers"". He wrote librettos and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series ""Jesus of Nazareth"". He worked as a literary"
"film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released. It contains Carlos' compositions, including those unused in the film, and the ""Biblical Daydreams"" and ""Orange Minuet"" cues excluded from the 1972 edition. Carlos composed the first three minutes of ""Timesteps"" before reading the novel ""A Clockwork Orange"". Originally intending it as the introduction to a vocoder rendition of the Ninth Symphony's Choral movement; it was completed approximately when Kubrick completed the photography; ""Timesteps"" and the vocoder Ninth Symphony were the foundation for the Carlos–Kubrick collaboration. Moreover, Stanley Kubrick asked Pink"
"(promo) Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (""A little bit of horrorshow"") (subtitled: Die Lieder aus Clockwork Orange und andere schmutzige Melodien [""The songs from Clockwork Orange and other dirty melodies""]) is the sixth LP by Die Toten Hosen, released in 1988. This is considered by the band as the best DTH album as of 1988. The LP is mainly a concept album based on the film ""A Clockwork Orange"" by Stanley Kubrick, which in turn is based on the book of the same name by Anthony Burgess, although not all of the songs are about the main"
"small number of audio recordings of Burgess' interviews and performances of his work. Over 90 books from Burgess' library can also be found in the Ransom Center's holdings. In 2014, the Ransom Center added the archive of Burgess' long-time agent Gabriele Pantucci, which also includes substantial manuscripts, sheet music, correspondence, and contracts. Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was"
"film by Stanley Kubrick, ""A Clockwork Orange"". The 1973 ""Rolling Stone"" review of Jethro Tull's ""A Passion Play"" compared the musical style of the album with the one of Purcell. In 2009 Pete Townshend of The Who, an English rock band that established itself in the 1960s, identified Purcell's harmonies, particularly the use of suspension and resolution that Townshend had learned from producer Kit Lambert, as an influence on the band's music (in songs such as ""Won't Get Fooled Again"" (1971), ""I Can See for Miles"" (1967) and the very Purcellian intro to ""Pinball Wizard""). Purcell's music was widely featured"
"retroactively given credit due to a settlement with Pink Floyd). Stanley Kubrick wanted to use this track for his film ""A Clockwork Orange""; however, the band refused permission. Kubrick did, however, include the album cover in the film. It can be seen on a shelf in the music shop scene. Years later, Kubrick refused Roger Waters permission to use audio samples from his film """" on Waters' solo album ""Amused to Death"". The band were initially enthusiastic about performing the suite. An early performance was taped for the San Francisco television station KQED, featuring just the band, on 28 April"
"rather than the pieces Carlos composed for those sections. He states the original LP omitted the first due to lack of space on a traditional vinyl LP recording. Three months after the official soundtrack's release, composer Carlos released ""Wendy Carlos' Clockwork Orange"" (1972) (Columbia KC 31480), a second version of the soundtrack containing unused cues and musical elements unheard in the film. For example, Kubrick used only part of ""Timesteps"", and a short version of the synthesiser transcription of the Ninth Symphony's Scherzo. The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's ""La Gazza Ladra"" (The Thieving Magpie); the"
"Clockwork Orange"", though much of the benefit was lost when it was released with a standard ""Academy"" optical soundtrack. This led to a proposal from Dolby that A type noise reduction be applied to the optical soundtrack on release prints. At that time (early 1970s) there was renewed interest in improving the quality of optical soundtracks, which had changed little since the 1930s. In particular, the infamous ""Academy curve"" (the standard frequency response for cinema playback of optical tracks as specified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1938) was still in use. It involved a drastic"
"Bill Mollison. Garton and Nick Jeanes co-composed the music for Mollison's ABC-TV series, ""Global Gardener"" (1991). Garton's music for theatre is largely focused on his own solo works and spoken-word operas (""Black Harlequin"", ""Ausländer ind Staatenlose""), with commissions for Queensland's Omniscient Gallery and the Debacle Theater Company, most notably their landmark interpretation of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (1994). Garton contributed to several international and Australian collaborations with artists such as Stelarc, Ludwig Zeininger, Kazayuki Null, Hank Bull, Ollie Olsen, Brian Eno, Tetsuo Kogawa, Martin Breindl and Jimi Chen. Garton has performed with the International Theremin Orchestra and continues to"
"of ""A Clockwork Orange"", which featured original music by Carlos along with several Moog versions of classical pieces by Beethoven and Rossini. Carlos would again employ a Moog synthesizer for the opening of Kubrick's The Shining (1980), which featured a Moog interpretation of the ""Dies Irae"" (Day of Wrath) section of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. An important contribution to Moog synthesizer's evolution was made by Keith Emerson, who purchased the second modular system available in the UK. Having difficulties with its assembly and tuning, he collaborated with Dr. Moog himself, thus contributing to the development of even more stable oscillators"
"generated sounds. The portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes. Instrumental prog rock was particularly significant in continental Europe, allowing bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can and Faust to circumvent the language barrier. Their synthesizer-heavy ""Kraut rock"", along with the work of Brian Eno (for a time the keyboard player with Roxy Music), would be a major influence on subsequent synth rock. In 1971 the British movie ""A Clockwork Orange"" was released with a synth soundtrack by"
"Hill, The New Seekers, Thunderclap Newman, Love Affair, Long John Baldry, Marmalade, Small Faces, and Rolf Harris. In 1968 he played on George Harrison's ""Wonderwall"". He directed and played on Amazing Blondel's first album in 1969, and in the same year played on the album ""Sound of Sunforest"", the overture from which was used in the film ""A Clockwork Orange"". In 1971, he played in the Jean-Claude Vannier Orchestra for Serge Gainsbourg's ""Histoire de Melody Nelson"", and also played on Frank Zappa's ""200 Motels"". In 1972, he did arrangements for the orchestral version of The Who's ""Tommy"". In the 1960s,"
"Floyd bassist Roger Waters to use elements of the ""Atom Heart Mother"" suite. Waters refused when he found that Kubrick wanted the freedom to cut up the piece to fit the film. Later, Waters asked Kubrick if he could use sounds from """"; Kubrick duly refused. The album can be seen in the film, during the scene in the record store. It is said that Carlos was so insulted by Kubrick's decision to jettison most of the synthesizer score that she and Elkind refused to work with Kubrick again until ""The Shining."" A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) The soundtrack to Stanley"
"Sound of Sunforest Sound of Sunforest is the first and only studio album by the English psychedelic folk group, Sunforest. The tracks have arrangements with medieval and electric sounds in a psychedelic style. The band's material offered diverse and unique sound; but without a hit single, the album did not sell successfully. Session musicians Big Jim Sullivan and Herbie Flowers, along with multiple other classical musicians, took part in recording. Two tracks from the album, ""Overture to the Sun"" and ""Lighthouse Keeper"" were re-recorded by the band to be used in Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"". The soundtrack album credits"
"of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer which helped popularize its use in the 1970s and won her three Grammy Awards. Its commercial success led to several more keyboard albums from Carlos of varying genres including further synthesized classical music adaptations and experimental and ambient music. She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) and ""The Shining"" (1980), and also ""Tron"" (1982) for Walt Disney Productions. In 1979, Carlos was one of the first public figures to disclose having undergone gender reassignment surgery. Carlos was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the"
"is said to contain more references to Kubrick films than any other pop culture phenomenon. When the Directors Guild of Great Britain gave Kubrick a lifetime achievement award, they included a cut-together sequence of all the homages from the show. Pop singer Lady Gaga's concert shows have included the use of dialogue, costumes, and music from ""A Clockwork Orange"". Several films have been made related to Kubrick's life, including the mockumentary film ""Dark Side of the Moon"" (2002), which is a parody of the pervasive conspiracy theory that Kubrick had been involved with the faked footage of the NASA moon"
"fight with Billy Boy's gang, the drive to the writer's home (""playing 'hogs of the road'""), the invasion of the Cat Lady's home, and the scene where Alex looks into the river and contemplates suicide before being approached by the beggar are all accompanied by Rossini's music. ""A Clockwork Orange"" was a box-office success in the United States. It grossed more than $26 million on a conservative budget of $2.2 million, was critically acclaimed, and was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture (losing to ""The French Connection""). , ""A Clockwork Orange"" holds an 89% ""Certified"