Enemy Zero and Michael Nyman
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Ever since I saw Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera, I have been on the hunt for Michael Nyman's score for that version. It is one of the most amazing scores that completely encapsulates the cameraman as vigilant and cognizant of their subject. I was sad to hear that it never was released on an album.
Accepting defeat, I started listening to more of Nyman's work and fell absolutely in love. His scores for Peter Greenaway's films are revelations. You don't even need to see A Zed and Two Noughts to enjoy Nyman's soundtrack for it. I like to listen to it and just close my eyes and allow the sound to engulf me.
But I get on these Wikipedia hunts. Lately, I've been researching interactive film video games simply because I am somehow fascinated by them. And on the list for interactive movies was Kenji Eno's D (here comes that letter once again in my life). That led me to read about Enemy Zero and D2. I watched a play-through of D and am in the middle of one for D2, but I skipped Enemy Zero. UNTIL. Until I read, "The music is performed by the Michael Nyman Orchestra and Sarah Leonard. "Confusion" is a modification of material from Nyman's previous score, The Ogre, while the Enemy Zero/Invisible Enemy/Battle theme were modified into portions of Nyman's score for Man with a Movie Camera." ! ! ! !!!
Here it is. Enemy Zero. Who would have thought that I would find this work in a video game for the Sega Saturn? This makes me appreciate Kenji Eno's work even more, to know that he valued Michael Nyman's work.
I am so happy to have found it. I would love to own an actual copy of the Enemy Zero soundtrack, but that may be a grail I hunt as diligently for as Jardim Eletrico by Os Mutantes.