[LAU] Soundtrack from recorded TV

[lanas]

Le Dimanche, 27 Janvier 2008 10:47:40 +0100,
Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> a écrit :

> "Faust" is a silent movie so doesn't have a regular soundtrack at
> all. 

I must differ on this.  The version shown on TV had a great
soundtrack.  Way much better than what Moroder did once for this
other old German movie "Metropolis" !  Thing is, it seems no credit are
given to the composer/band who did it and IMDB lists several versions
with different composers.  

"Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0016847/combined

The beginning song for the credits (the only song in the movie) sounds
a bit like some In Extremo (the German folk metal band with the
bagpipes) but the rest is way out of their domain. When some very short
processed voices are introduced as the movie goes towards conclusion
around the time Gretchen is in prison and dreaming of past days it
becomes totally eerie.

I sure would like to know who did that score since that person might
very well have other interesting recordings.

For some it might be sacrilege to do this for a silent movie; for me
it's a great mesmerizing soundtrack :-)

> I use mplayer for this as in:

> mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file="$OUTPUT" "$INPUT"

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Alles gut,

Al