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Advertising the OffWorld Colonies, Spinners in the Rain: Sound Effects From Blade Runner

May 16th, 2008 by Jeff Simmermon

I can’t look out my office window on a grey rainy day like today without imagining Spinners weaving through the buildings, crowds of people with glowing umbrellas and shady eyeball craftsmen working their frigid magic on the streets.And as the 21st century grinds on, I’m more and more convinced that Blade Runner is coming true. It’s like some window in an alternate future was left open, just a crack, and all that alternate reality is whispering through, one invention at a time.

Listening to the Blade Runner soundtrack really helps this vision coalesce, too. Vangelis’ haunting ambient score over the sounds of busy, rainy city life are mixing really well with the view outside. A great geek friend of mine hooked me up with the motherlode too, a while back: a collection of ambient background noise and sound effects from Blade Runner.

And of course, I wouldn’t have mentioned it if I didn’t want to share … help yourselves to ambient background sound and effects from Blade Runner, as well as Vangelis’ score, laid over sounds from the film:

Blade Runner sound effects

Vangelis’ Blade Runner Soundtrack, Part 1
Vangelis’ Blade Runner Soundtrack, Part 2

If any of you are motivated to mash up or remix these sounds into something, please share …

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“Blade Runner: The Final Cut” at the Ziegfeld: Good Luck Getting Tickets

October 4th, 2007 by Jeff Simmermon

Blade Runner: Final Cut Poster at Ziegfeld Theater

Blade Runner: The Final Cut opens this weekend at exactly two theaters in the United States: The Ziegfeld in New York and the Landmark in Los Angeles. It’s got me salivating with excitement, and my friend Kim — who owns a copy of the Blade Runner script, signed by all the cast members — she’s been sleeping in a transparent raincoat all week, a stuffed boa constrictor clutched in her twitching fingers.

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