The Sounds of the Sounds of Science , intended as a soundtrack to a series of showings of French director Jean Painlev s oceanographic films. Some six years after its premiere at San Francisco s International Film Festival, The Sounds of the Sounds of Science- - ostensibly a mere blip on the sonar for the chameleonic trio-- has surfaced again. Recently, the British Film Institute issued Science Is Fiction / The Sounds of Science , a double-disc DVD featuring a series of Painlev s films.
The first disc is the originals, soundtracked by the lofty likes of Duke Ellington and French composer Pierre Henry. The second disc features eight Painlev films with Yo La Tengo soundtracks, synchronized and swimming for the first time on DVD. The Yo La Tengo music on the DVD is apparently different from what was on the 2002 CD, but, seeing as they re meant to sync up to the films, we re guessing not by much.
Still, it s a must-have for the land-lubbing Yo La Tengo fan on your Christmas list, provided you can hold off on opening it yourself before tis the season. The DVD appears to be available via traditional retailers in the UK, though a visit to the shop on Yo La Tengo s website should get Americans what they re looking for. In other Yo La Tengo news, the band will travel by air and by land to a few scattered gigs this summer, including a stop at London s Royal Festival Hall, where they ll perform their sounds for The Sounds of Science yet again.
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