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THE KANE TRIPLETS- MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1968) SEE ALSO THE SEQUEL, "ALICE SHIELDS- STUDY FOR VOICE AND TAPE (1968)"!
"There are (More) SEE ALSO THE SEQUEL, "ALICE SHIELDS- STUDY FOR VOICE AND TAPE (1968)"!
"There are words to that?!" That's what everybody thinks the first time they hear this. Yes, there are and they're really cool!
When JFK was asked what he was reading he mentioned a spy novel. Immediately James Bond was fast-tracked into cinema houses worldwide. He was the perfect standard for Cold War virility, a John Wayne man with Hugh Hefner's upscale tastes. Television, movies, and comics ran with the espionage concept for the rest of the decade. Women became crucial players in these games of death and deceit. The proactive Mod culture set the example of the modern self-sufficient woman, and THE AVENGERS reflected this with Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, and Linda Thorson. They weren't Miss Moneypenny, they were Jane Bond; Kinky, cool, and lethal. MODESTY BLAISE threw down in the UK comic strips and in a hyper-Mod movie. Batgirl, enlivened by Yvonne Craig, was invented for the massively popular BATMAN TV series and took on a life of her own. "Meanwhile", villainess Catwoman stole all the best lines, attitude, and fashion. She was suitably mercurial in the forms of Lee Meriwether, Julie Newmar, and Eartha Kitt, whose brilliant casting opened a door for African American actors. French artist Guido Crepax envisioned a thoroughly adult comic where a Mod photographer named VALENTINA 's free sensuality, independence, and sharp observation guide her through surrealistic adventures. His boldly experimental graphic style was seamlessly converted to celluloid with the underrated BABA YAGA film (1973). Barbara Bain and her husband Martin Landau helped launch MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE on it's original eight year stealth run. The Italian anti-hero Diabolik stole into cinemas in the modernist spectacle called DANGER DIABOLIK, which starred John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell as his match, Eva Kant. And then there's BARBARELLA. Jean Claude-Forest pushed the envelope with his torrid tales of a spacefaring free-loving minx. Surprisingly the film, starring a breakout Jane Fonda, retained as much of the adult comic as celluloid could handle, helping herald a new wave of sensuality and permissiveness in modern film. Anita Pallenberg steals the story as the Black Queen, dazzling the world with whirling knives, fetish futurism, polyamory, and sapphic seduction. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. spun-off satellite sister Stephanie Powers in her own bulletproof jetcar. Wonder Woman got a makeover into an Avengers-inspired agent with a smashing Mod wardrobe. (In the early 70's, longtime fan Gloria Steinem helped wake her back up into her power mode.) "This (Ape) planet wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl", like Nova and Dr. Zira. If spy shows let women kick butt, and Barbarella opened their attitudes, this film reflected the growing disenchantment that something was going horribly wrong with the war machine. Meanwhile DC Comics let its readers redesign Supergirl for the changing age. it was one thing to be a good girl fighting crime like a man. It was another thing to be Tura Satana. In FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL KILL! she kills men for a thrill and cuts as sharply with her tongue as with a karate chop. As the amoral Varla, she invented every badass woman from Russ Meyer to Punk to Goth to Psychobilly to Tarantino. The anti-hero westerns sparked by Sergio Leone took on new form with Raquel Welch in HANNIE CAULDER (1971), a tale of rape and complete vengeance. As the times got heavier, so did the subject matter and responses of the women in them. Yet another French erotic comic, PRAVDA: LA SURVIREUSE, was the shocking pop art SF and SM tale of a naked woman on her jaguar motorcycle tearing up tarmac. A Manga by the duo who created LONE WOLF AND CUB gave new meaning to shonen knife; its heroine "carnage" came to life and took many others in the LADY SNOWBLOOD films. Completing this arc of steadily more intense mistresses on a mission is the star of THRILLER/ THEY CALL HER ONE-EYE (1973), a Swedish film where she goes on a roaring rampage of revenge Quentin will never forget.
Any resemblence to ALIAS, Ripley from ALIEN, THE BRIDE films, LARA CROFT, Trinity from THE MATRIX, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, HIGHLANDER THE RAVEN, LA FEMME NAKITA, DARK ANGEL, BIRDS OF PREY, BUFFY, the Beastie Boys "Body Movin" video, GHOST IN THE SHELL, AEON FLUX, CQ, BARB WIRE, BLOODRAYNE, ULTRA VIOLET, UNDERWORLD, ELEKTRA, and especially KILL BILL is entirely the point. Ahem.
Ah yes, about the Kane Triplets. Lucille, Jeanne, and Maureen were showbiz pros from New York who toured the Vegas and Reno circuit and the Sullivan, Douglas, and Como shows. Their interpretation of Lalo Schifren's iconic theme song is amazing in its vocal pyrotechnics. Once you learn the lyrics you'll want to sing them every time to impress your friends, or alarm them.
Check out this brilliant cartoon of PRAVDA done recently:
http://www.thegenre.com/mov/pravda.html
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ALICE SHIELDS -"STUDY FOR VOICE AND TAPE" (1968) Sound, the infinite frontier!
Science had chopped the world into atoms, components from (More) Sound, the infinite frontier!
Science had chopped the world into atoms, components from which to build. Modern art deconstructed reality, reconstructing our perceptions of it. And the first Electronic Music likewise took apart sound and turned it inside out for new compositions. Vladimir Ussachevsky founded the first Electronic Music Center jointly with Columbian and Princeton universities in 1952. He brought in avant composers from countries worldwide with new perspectives and radical expirementation. This included women like Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, Wendy Carlos, and Alice Shields.
In the 50's, Electronic Music was distortions of recordings. Sounds on a tape recorder would be manipulated by feedback, repeated spliced loops, overlapping tracks with multiple recorders, and using oscillators and reverb to sculpt the tempo, tone, or texture. This prevailed in continually advancing ways well through the 1960s. Alice used these techniques in creating this composition. A gifted mezzesoprano, she first sang a poem she'd written. She accompanied this with the first analog Buchla synthesizer, a rare and recent device only beginning to draw the attention of the hippest pop musicians. She then manipulated pitch and speed in textural patterns to supplement the freeform song.
This was the cutting edge music of the future, usually heard only in academic circles. But it made its way into film soundtracks (from FORBIDDEN PLANET to Wendy Carlos' A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), Fusion Jazz (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock), Progressive Rock (from George Harrison's 1969 ELECTRONIC SOUND to Krautrock and Kraftwerk), Funk (Stevie Wonder's T.O.N.T.O., Bernie Worrell), on to the synthesizer explosion of New Wave, then Hip Hop (from Bambaataa's ElectroFunk to Public Enemy's radical sculptures of noise), Industrial (synthetic abrasion), and the Electronica music of today; as such, Alice Shields is a godmother of Le Tigre, Peaches, Chicks On Speed, Lesbians On Ecstasy, and Ladytron, to name a few.
Learn more about Alice and her recent work here:
http://www.aliceshields.com/
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/cpemc.html
http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/ohm/columbiaprinceton.html
From the 1950s' to the 1970's was the Space Age. The gleaming future was predicted in every corner of life, from music to clothes, fabrics, furniture, architecture, technology, cars, movies, television, comic books and illustrated strips, and of course science fiction. Every take on the future was a promise of a better tomorrow, or a warning. This video pays homage to much of the pop culture from the early 60's to the mid 70's, focusing on the women and their emerging new roles and styles: THE JETSONS; BARBARELLA; the Silver Surfer's purpose, Shalla Bal; Nick Fury's better half, the contessa Val, courtesy of visionary Jim Steranko; Lt. Uhura and the varied women of STAR TREK; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; the EXPO '70 future city in Japan; Big Barda from Jack Kirby's New Gods comics; Lt. Ellis and the purple squad from UFO (U.K., 1970-73); decked out in Dave Cockrum's radical costumes, Saturn Girl and sisters from the Legion of Super-Heroes (1974); and Labelle kicking Funk to the future like Parliament.
See also:
DELIA DERBYSHIRE- "The Wizards Laboratory" (1972)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F9AkSI_UbIE
MALARIA! -"Your Turn To Run" (1982)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OUTS9r8DGPw
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