{"id":105,"date":"2011-07-28T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=105"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:40:10","slug":"bells-of-atlantis-de-ian-hugo-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/bells-of-atlantis-de-ian-hugo-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"BELLS OF ATLANTIS de Ian Hugo (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, <a href=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/?p=1004\"><em>Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><em>Bells of Atlantis<\/em> by Ian Hugo (1951),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Text read by Ana\u00efs Nin, taken from her book <em>The House of Incest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music by Luis and Bebe Barron. The first music for a short film to use only electronic sonorities, produced in the Barrons\u2019 New York studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this \u201ccine-poem\u201d, the bells of Atlantis ring out from the mysterious depths of the ocean. The entirely electronic music of Louis and Bebe Barron is created from pulse generators, coupled with echo effects, so as to represent, ideally, a stylised and poetic underwater world. The abstract character of the electronic sonorities then takes the place of the imagined expression of the bells of the sunken ancient city, filtered through the thickness of the water, crystallising a distant sonic elsewhere. A simple rhythm of three notes, tirelessly repeated and looped, punctuated by blasts that die away in echo and by continuous electronic textures, creates the rhythmic musical base on which is arranged the clear, soft and tranquil voice of Ana\u00efs Nin, fitting perfectly with the rhythm of the echo loops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">See the text of the poem <a href=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Texte-Bells-of-Atlantis1.pdf\">in English as a PDF<br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"240\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 320 \/ 240;\" width=\"320\" controls src=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Hugo-Ian-Bells-of-Atlantis-1952.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ce site documente un champ de recherche tout \u00e0 la fois historique, esth\u00e9tique et analytique en lien avec l&rsquo;utilisation du son dans les arts technologiques : le cin\u00e9ma, la radio, l&rsquo;art sonore, la musique et les nouvelles technologies du son.<br \/>\nCe site, en lien avec l&rsquo;ouvrage \u00ab\u00a0Les Cloches d&rsquo;Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma, Arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d&rsquo;un art sonore\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 para\u00eetre en avril 2012 aux \u00e9ditions mf, a \u00e9galement pour but de rassembler une\u00a0 ressource documentaire audiovisuelle importante sur ce sujet.<br \/>\nSon titre, Les cloches d&rsquo;Atlantis fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au court m\u00e9trage de Ian Hugo, Bells of Atlantis r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en 1951 et \u00e0 sa musique, premi\u00e8re du genre, enti\u00e8rement compos\u00e9e \u00e0 partir des sonorit\u00e9s \u00e9lectroniques par les \u00e9poux Barron, \u00e0 New York.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,57,7,6],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditorium","category-extrait-video","category-fiche-film","category-les-cloche-datlantis","category-musee-du-son","tag-film-experimental","tag-musique-electronique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}