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Previously:
part i:
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/23204/part ii:
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/messiaen/Part iii (of vi, I believe) of baker b.’s personal journey through the golden age of synching brings us to Pink Vertigo, a still solid looking early synch from late 2001. PV represents my first attempt to tile, with various cued regions, a whole movie or equivalent whole movie. This would be Alfred Hitchcock’s enigmatic Vertigo, which some rate his best. Personally I would select Rear Window for that title, but — apologies to Nightmare Before Christmas and The Wizard of Oz — Vertigo is still probably the best film I’ve worked with on a synch to this point. I think the jump up in complexity here is, in part, an attempt to match or resonate with the energy Hitchcock put forth in this masterwork.
We have not 1 cue (MessiaenSphere/ Piper’s Nightmare Xmas), not 2 (Full of Secrets), not 3 (Messiaen Trek), but 9 now in Pink Vertigo. The first tile I found in the synch would be the cue between the title sequence of Vertigo and the 1st track from Pink Floyd’s soundtrack album “Obscured by the Clouds”, which many consider the best among their several offerings of this kind. This would also become the first tile of the completed Pink Vertigo synch. The following 8 cues/tiles came in a bunch a bit later. These are their conditions:
1. Use the *first track* from all of Pink Floyd’s pre-Dark Side of the Moon *studio* albums *except Ummmagumma* to equivalently tile the movie Vertigo in a front to back fashion.
In order, these early Pink Floyd studio albums (minus soundtracks) are: 1) Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 2) A Saucerful of Secrets, 3) Ummagumma, 4) Atom Heart Mother, and 5) Meddle.
2. Start at Atom Heart Mother (no. 4 studio album) instead of Piper at the Gates of Dawn and work in chronological fashion to Meddle (no. 5) then back to Piper (no. 1) and Saucerful (no. 2). Again, in the middle of the synch, as it were, we “skip” Ummagumma (no. 3), which has already been used in a baker b. synch I might discuss later.
3. Repeat the process twice in round robin fashion.
4. Although divided into a number of sections to increase royalties, I’m counting the entire Atom Heart Mother title composition as track 1 of the album. When you repeat its use in Pink Vertigo, you simply pick up exactly where the first part left off. So part 1 of Pink Vertigo employs sections 1-3 of this title track, and part 2 of Pink Vertigo uses sections 4-5. Section 6, the last, is left out of the mix.
5: One last condition: Instead of using the 1st track of A Saucerful of Secrets we are using the *last* track in this synch (“Jugband Blues”) — in both parts. This is the also the track ending parts 1 and 2 of the synch.
Sounds complex I know but it’s pretty straightforward when you look at it and if you know the Pink Floyd albums involved. Oh… one more trick. There’s a dialog bleedthrough in part of the second Atom Heart Mother tile.
See what you think. Next up: Walt SIDney’s Fantasia 2000. Thanks for reading!
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