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March 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Amanda Sewell: Wendy Carlos – A Biography
Wendy Carlos: A Biography Amanda Sewell Oxford University Press Wendy Carlos is one of the great pioneers of electronic music, champion of the Moog, creator of mesmerising soundtracks (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, TRON) and as well as recontextualising classical music to make one of the genre’s all-time best sellers, it is likely she also […]Archive
September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Newton Brothers: Dr Sleep [OST]
The Newton Brothers Dr Sleep (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music I’ve yet to read the book, but I probably will since I’m gearing up to dive deep back into the world of Stephen King – but I saw the film and liked the film, particularly given it had a lot to live up to, […]Archive
July 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: A Poem About The Shining
I watched The Shining again. Perfect horror film. Existential fear right there. Amazing performances, brilliantly filmed – that feeling of unease that trickles in with Wendy Carlos’ amazing music and the sound-design just so. And I’m ordering a book to read about the film and noticing my copy of Stephen King’s novel up there on […]Archive
January 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: The Shining
So much could have gone wrong…that night I was hiding in the wheelie-bin. It had been emptied, scrubbed clean, and we thought it a funny joke for me to hide in there with an axe… Okay, back-up. You see, one summer we had an aunty and uncle staying with us, they’d just moved back to […]Archive
March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews
Philip Matthews is a senior reporter with Fairfax Media in Christchurch and is a former film reviewer with the NZ Listener. He blogs about films at Second Sight and is on Twitter as @secondzeit. Here are Five Films That Have Stayed With Him… 1 – Solaris: This is such an intensely sorrowful film. If I was […]Archive
January 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute
Elaine Shute is a volunteer programmer at WERU-FM, a community radio station in Downeast Maine. Her show ‘On the Wing’, a three-hour eclectic mix of music, airs on alternating Mondays, and can be streamed on demand. Here are five films that have stayed with her…. 1 – Breaking Away: I love a coming-of-age story, and – along […]Archive
November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]Archive
July 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Ryan Adams (July 16, Wgtn)
Ryan Adams Opera House Thursday, July 16 Ryan Adams is no stranger to New Zealand but this is his first visit to Wellington in a half decade and just his second show in the capital. The last was with The Cardinals, this time he has a new band in tow, The Shining. They’re like a […]Archive
December 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman