Re: (idm) Pi Soundtrack

From Daniel P. Brochu
Sent Sun, Jul 26th 1998, 20:15

I saw Pi last night and think it's definitely worth seeing.  True, I've
heard most of these tracks before, but IMO it was great that this stuff
got into a movie at all.  If IDM was in lots of movies, then you'd be
right - they could have done better.  But you don't hear this stuff in
the movies too often.

As for the plot, I thought the themes about the dangers of attaining
absolute knowledge and the relationship between genius and madness were
well done.  The two mathemeticians (& the computer) couldn't handle the
complete self-awareness brought by understanding the number and it
destroyed them.  Ignorance is bliss I guess.

Some parts were a little heavy handed though.  Like the part where he
screams at the jewish cult members that they're not pure and he is - too
overdramatic.

All in all, not a bad piece of work for $20,000.  Thumbs up.

Does anyone know of any other movies with significant IDM content?

>Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:06:46 +0000 ()
>From: "Nate Harrison \[Toshok Laboratories\]" <xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: (idm) Pi Soundtrack

>I must say I was really let down by this movie, and IMHO the soundtrack

>could have been a *lot* better. They kept playing the title track over
and
>over again during the film, which IMHO is the weakest track out of the
>bunch (some blasse acid type line with yes! the amen over the top done
>very plainly). All the other tracks, while good, came out a while ago,
and
>for the most part I think we have heard them all already. They used the

>first track off of Incanabula, but it was mixed too quietly on the
movie-
>you could barely hear it.

>Music aside, I was also not blown away by the plot itself; I was really

>expecting a much deeper movie than I saw. I mean the whole number
theory
>thing is interesting, but really I thought we were past that whole
>cyber/techy everything is numbers and fractals type aesthetic
already...

>anyway I suppose if you weren't into IDM or didn't work at a company
that
>lives and dies by number crunching, you might enjoy the film. It wasn't

>bad really...

>Nate