Watch Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with a Trendy, New Digital Soundtrack (1927)

From sound artist Tomer Baruch and drummer Alex Brajković comes a brand new digital soundtrack for Fritz Lang’s century-old traditional movie, Metropolis. The brand new rating comes with this preface:

One of the crucial important themes within the dystopian characteristic is the blurred-to-nonexistent line separating man and machine; Human-like machines, Mechanical-humans, real-life android deepfakes, and above all town of Metropolis, an infinite machine and inside it males, slaved to keep up its operation. The theme that was disturbing to start with of the twentieth century is as related as ever with the newest developments in AI, forcing us to rethink once more what makes us human.

In analogy to that the soundtrack relies on archive recordings of early twentieth century equipment, on high of which Tomer Baruch and Alex Brajkovic play analog synthesizers and drums. They interface with the machines and embody a relentlessly repetitive mechanical movement, one which is often sequenced or programmed. By creating music which is in itself blurring the road between man and machine, by subjecting themselves to machine-like patterns, the musicians turn into part of Metropolis, making a disillusioned, intensified and darker than ever soundtrack for the movie.

Baruch and Alex Brajković created the soundtrack for the Sounds of Silence Movie Pageant, Den Haag in 2019. Stream it above.

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