RIP - Bebe Barron
From the
New York Times:
Bebe Barron, 82, Pioneer of Electronic Scores, Is Dead
Bebe Barron, who with her husband Louis composed the first electronic score for a feature film — the eerie gulps and burbles, echoes and weeeoooos that accentuated invisible monsters and robotic creatures in the 1956 science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet” — died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 82.
Her son, Adam, said she died of natural causes. Louis Barron died in 1989.
The score for “Forbidden Planet” — the tale of a starship crew that travels 17 light years from Earth to investigate why settlers on the planet Altair-4 have gone silent — “is truly a landmark in electro-acoustic music,” Barry Schrader, a professor of electro-acoustic music at the California Institute of the Arts, said Thursday.
While the Barrons created electronically produced themes for the film’s characters and events, Professor Schrader said, their score crossed the traditional line between music and sound effects.
She will be missed -- a music pioneer.
Posted by DaveH at May 8, 2008 4:30 PM
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