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Even though the Echoes track from Pink Floyd's MEDDLE is best known for syncing fabulously with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, (specifically in the final chapter titled JUPITER AND BEYOND THE INFINITE - for more information see below this entire article), this sweet little sync is made with the same track (Echoes), and the 1997 science fiction film Contact starring Jodie Foster.
NOTE: Please do not attempt this with the truncated version of the song Echoes from the Echoes - The Best of Pink Floyd CD, as it will not deliver proper results.
Here's how to set it up: Cue up Echoes on the Meddle CD by forwarding the CD to the track and pressing the PAUSE button. Now fast forward the video until you come to the part after Ellie Arroway (Foster) is taken to the remote site in Japan and after she has had her preparatory talk with the scientists in the lab, who hand her the obligatory cyanide capsule - for those "just in case" times when there is no other pleasant choice. The scene changes to Ellie's private quarters and the camera pans over to her as she is seated on a bed.
ON YOUR MARK . . . The camera moves in to a close up
GET SET . . . a knock is heard on the door. Ellie looks up and says "Come in . . ." .
GO! -- Immediately after she says "Come in" press the PLAY button on your CD player and the first "P-I-N-G" of Echoes should sync with the opening of the door. Turn the sound down on the video. From then on the track will play the entire length of Ellie Arroway's trip through space/time and until she returns and asks, "How long have I been gone?"
While not completely lacking in lyrical synchronisms, the overall mood effect of the music with the action in the film is quite dramatic! I think you will enjoy this one! It is ranked as one of the best in synchronicity circles on the Internet by all who have taken the time to observe it. Karl Tune, respected sync critic said "Contact/Echoes is FAR superior to 2001:JaBtI/Echoes".
This is yet another sync involving a young woman who goes away to another world and meets an alien life-form, which of course, is similar to Dorothy and her adventure in Oz. On a different note, there are similarities between Ellie and Dave from 2001: A Space Odyssey which synchronizes with the same song, Echoes. An interesting side note is that Ellie hears Echoes from space.
This sync may be found as an extra on the Pre-Recorded Sync on DVD, The Definitive Version of the Dark Side of the Rainbow, as well as on my latest sync DARKEST CITY, both which are available from Evening Star Gifts.
"I was blown away ... among the top
of the heap of syncs ...", Upchuck Undergrind from FishComCollective
http://www.fishcomcollective.net/index.php?p=articles&id=53
"Contact/Echoes is FAR superior to 2001:JaBtI/Echoes", Karl Tune, respected sync critic.
Click the images above for the Contact website. Very nicely done.
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The 2001:JABTI/Echoes sync is second only to DSOTR in syncdom, and perhaps only slightly less compelling and entertaining, simply because of the minimal lyrical moments to offer a/v syncs. However, it is none-the-less a really fun experience. To read up more information on this sync, I suggest a visit to the Synchronicity Arkive and scroll down to the bottom of the page to which the link brings you. Also, if you're already a fan of Stanley Kubrick's cult Science Fiction classic 2001:ASO you may find this little "explanatory" site of interest http://www.kubrick2001.com/ . For sync enthusiasts, there's a little wave to us in the final chapter of the presentation of the aforementioned site. And for those of you who "hate" this film, or who say they "don't get it", you may actually find a new appreciation for it after discovering what the story is really about. I personally do not subscribe to Kubrick's epistemology, but I've always enjoyed this film, if for nothing else, the special effects and the general "creepiness" of the slow moving action.
