{"id":831,"date":"2012-01-07T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=831"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:57:44","slug":"la-fiancee-de-frankenstein-de-james-whale-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/la-fiancee-de-frankenstein-de-james-whale-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"LA FIANCEE DE FRANKENSTEIN de James Whale (1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, <a href=\"\/lcd\/en\/philippelanglois.net\/?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<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/The bride of Frankenstein.jpg\" style=\"width: 176px; height: 233px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"translation-block\">Wishing to complete the fabulous set of Doctor Frankenstein\u2019s laboratory and to represent the terrifying noises of his scientific equipment, James Whale asked Franz Waxman to compose the music for <em>La fianc\u00e9e de Frankenstein<\/em> \u2013 <em>The Bride of Frankenstein<\/em> \u2013 in 1934, of which he said that \u201cit was a horror film that called for music of haunting strangeness, mysterious and different\u201d. Thus, the theremin, which fulfils the main melodic function, is not the only new acoustic device intended to produce strangeness. Waxman in fact planned a whole rhythmic apparatus combining bowed cymbals and concrete noises \u2013 jets of steam, mechanical elements, a grating wheel, etc. \u2013 slipping into and marking the rhythmic accents of the great orchestrated theme to simulate the workings of Frankenstein\u2019s laboratory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FaGNwfvgatM?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design sonore primitif <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,53,57,7,6],"tags":[118,15,128,16,120,35],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditorium","category-featured","category-extrait-video","category-fiche-film","category-les-cloche-datlantis","category-musee-du-son","tag-archeologie-sonore","tag-cinema","tag-design-sonore","tag-musique-de-film","tag-nouvelle-lutherie","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}