Attilio Mineo - Man in Space with Sounds (World's Fair, 1962)

Space age music dans toute sa splendeur! Voilà donc à quoi ressemblait le futur dans les années soixante, entre cités pointées vers un ciel radieux et promenades en monorail sur les anneaux de Saturne. Bien sûr, ce futur ne s'est pas réalisé, sinon on vivrait dans un monde tellement plus naïf. A la place, nos ordinateurs et nos télévisions analysent nos pratiques pour nous proposer des offres ciblées et les réseaux sociaux anéantissent nos derniers instants d'intimité. Forcément, cette musique futuriste prend d'un coup une toute autre couleur. Ce que je veux dire, c'est qu'on peut en sourire en l'écoutant, mais que dans ce cas on passera à côté de l'essentiel.

Attilio Mineo
Man in Space with Sounds
LP World's Fair LP-55555 (1962)

01. Welcome to Tomorrow
02. Gateway to Heaven
03. Soaring Science
04. Mile-A-Minute Monorail
05. Around the World
06. Century 21
07. Man in Art
08. The Queen City
09. Man Seeks the Future
10. Boeing Spacearium
11. Science of Tomorrow
12. Space Age World's Fair

Note : "Man in Space with Sounds" was composed by Arthur 'Attilio' Mineo in the early 50s and was played through the sound system in "The Bubbleator", an exhibit that was part of the 1962 Seattle Space Age World's Fair. "The Bubbleator" was a 150-passenger spherical clear plastic elevator that moved 2.5 million people through the "World of Tomorrow" displays that promised an easier life ahead and a glimpse of life in the future! To accompany their journey, the sound system piped in the evocative orchestral and electronic music of Man in Space with Sounds that helped to create a futurist experience for the passengers. The original LP was released in limited quantities on the World's Fair record label around 1962 in two versions: one with a short piece of spoken word introduction before each track and one without the introductions. This is the version with introductions. Neither LP was in stereo, but THIS is Space Age! Even in mono...
The music itself can be disorienting, even bleak. As the narrator at the exhibit proclaimed, "If there is one theme which dominates our tour in space, it is man's eternal search for a brighter future," Mineo cautions--with horror-flick string melodies and frigid electronic oscillations--that we should be careful what we search for. After all, we might just find it.
There's just a hint of the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet about this music also with odd primitive synthesiser and theremin bleeps and whooshs.

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