METROPOLIS

John Eckhardt, electric bass | Hubert Steiner, electric guitar | Sylvain Cadars, sound and projection (IRCAM)

Martín Matalón, conductor

Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang. Sound track: Martín Matalón

Head and hands must go through the heart if they want to talk to each other. This is the message that Fritz Lang sought to convey with his movie Metropolis, filmed in 1927 and considered a cinema masterpiece and an essential film within German expressionism. Set in 2026, it portrays a megalopolis modelled on New York, which Fritz had visited, in which society is divided between the rich, who hold the power and the means of production, and the workers condemned to live in an underground ghetto in dramatic conditions. In 1993, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) in Paris commissioned the Franco-Argentinean composer Martín Matalón to compose a new sound track for a remastered version of Metropolis that would envelope the film in an ocean of sound with acoustic and electronic music.

Sponsored by the Fundació Banc Sabadell